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of what has been done nearer home, and among monuments if not 
80 classical yet full of interest from the obscurity that veils their 
origin. I should mention then the researches made by Lukis 
among the chambered barrows in Brittany. He has just supplied 
what was hitherto much wanted, a trustworthy guide to these 
interesting monuments with maps to elucidate their respective 
positions. Those who have in former years travelled in Brittany 
in search of these hitherto much neglected remains, have experienced 
the extreme difficulty of obtaining correct information, or of being 
able to group the monuments under distinct classes. This has 
now been done by Mr. Lukis in a very simple manner, and any 
members of this Club interested in megalithic structures could not 
do better than spend a few weeks in the summer in visiting this 
part of France. Having myself paid a visit to Auray in 1850, I can 
judge how much has been effected in elucidating these monuments 
since that time. We have not yet however arrived at a satisfac- 
tory explanation as to the date of their erection, or the people by 
whom they were constructed. Having touched upon megalithic 
structures abroad I must say a word about efforts made for their 
investigation at home. A member of our Club who some years 
ago very ably described one of the most ancient of these structures, 
that of Abury, in the “ Wilts Archeological Magazine,” has just 
been engaged upon Stonehenge, and has brought together all that 
has hitherto been said in past and present times about it, without 
attempting to theorise upon its builders or its object. This paper 
will shortly appear and will form an excellent sequel to the 
valuable notice of Abury, and the notice also of Stanton Drew by 
the same hand, in the “ Royal Archzological Journal.”* 
It is hoped that the attention given to these monuments of our 
primitive ancestors may insure their preservation, and may at 
length induce our Government to take some steps to secure them 
as national property from destruction. 
* The paper is now published in the “ Wilts Archeological Journal, 1876.” 
