16 TVVELFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Worle were probably constructed witli tlie ald of Phceniclan 

 engineers, and remarked that tlie works surrounding the 

 city of Cartliage were on a precisely similar plan. He did 

 not suppose that the flint knives belonged to the people 

 resident in the camp, for he found them mixed iip with 

 the earth, and not with the other remains in the huts. 

 Probably they belonged to a rüder race. 



Extracts were then read from a paper by the Rev. H. 

 M. ScARxn, on the subject of ancient sculptured stones, 

 particularly those i'ecorded to have stood in the cemetery 

 of the Abbey at Glastonbury. The paper suggested the 

 desirability of bringing togcther all the engravings of 

 sculptured stones that had bcen published, and issuing 

 them in a well edited volume. This paper is printed in the 

 present volume, Part II, 



A paper on the "Inland Mollusca of Somersetshire," by 

 the Eev. A. M. Norman, m.a., was presented at the 

 meeting, and will be found printed in Part II. 



Mr. Parfitt, the Curator of the Society, then read a 

 paper on the " Pouched Marmot," remains of which species 

 have rcccntly been identified by Ilugh Falconer, Esq., 

 M.D., among the Mendip Cave bones forming a part of the 

 Williams' collection in the Museum of this Society. These 

 remains consist of two right rami of the lower jaw, which 

 are the only portions yet discovered in this country of the 

 Spermophihis erythror/enoidcs. In the present day, the 

 Altai mountains are known as the habitat of the represen- 

 tatives of this species — the pouched marmot. 



" The formation of a portion of the Altai mountains is 

 something similar to the !Mcndi2:)s and Quantocks, being 

 apparently the ecj^uivalent of the old red sandstone, scarfed 

 with carboniferous limestone, and it is in the chinks and 

 holes of the latter these animals live gregariously or in 



