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and succeeded them in the occupation of the county. Then there 

 ■were the Saxons, different tribes of whom settled in the county and 

 impressed on it its name, and whose chiefs were rightly or wrongly 

 credited with giving names to many towns and villages; next they 

 had the Danes, a very interesting enquiry in connection with whom 

 might fairly be considered, viz., whether the amber cup upstairs, 

 the bronze dagger, the stone axe and whetstone found in a barrow 

 at Hove, were rather the property of a Danish Chief killed and 

 buried in Hove fields, and not, as had been and was stated, the 

 weapons and property of a British Chief ; and last, though not least, 

 the Normans, who, like most of the invaders of this island, landed 

 on the south coast in the county of Sussex, each and all of whom 

 had left marks and characteristics which ought to be worked out 

 as a department of Anthropology. If nothing more were done in 

 this direction, at least what did not at present exist might be 

 drawn up, viz., a map of Sussex, similar to that which Mr. Wavne 

 has made of the county of Dorset, giving the situation of Druidical 

 or quasi-Druidical remains, camps, stations, castles, roads, tumuli, 

 beacons, battle-fields, &c., indicating in each case by different 

 colours whether they were British, Roman, Saxon, &c., and possibly 

 out of it might come strength to the hands of those who wished to 

 conserve our national monuments. 



Next came what some might say were more strictly the 

 functions of a Natural History Society, viz., the Botany and the 

 Zoology. The first, Botany, ought to have a separate and distinct 

 Committee, who should undertake both the phenogamic and 

 cryptogamic flora of the county. The society had published a Moss 

 Flora, complete as far as our knowledge went when it was published ; 

 but, by the labours of Messrs Davis and Mitten, additions had been 

 made to that department. Mr Roper had published the Flora of 

 Eastbourne this summer, and other gentlemen were writing out 

 lists of the phenogamous plants. Now, a committee composed of 

 three or four of their membei's whom he could name, would be able 

 to compare, say the London Catalogue, with the labours of others, 

 and add from time to time such, either new or re-discovered plants, 

 as might from time to time crop up. Perhaps, too, as good a list 

 of the lichens and algae might be drawn up as of the mosses. One 

 point he thought this committee should bear in mind. No Flora of 

 the county could be deemed complete which excluded the crypto- 

 gams. 



