Damnonia, of Cornwall and Devon, and the deed, under date 601, begins "Hex 

 Damnonise terram, quse appellatur Yneswitrin, ad ecclesiam vetustam (!) 

 coiicessit quae ibi sita est;" and the signatories are Bishop Mawron and Abbot 

 Worgret, head of five houses. A further charter, which purports be an 

 Authorisation, given in 675, of Leutherius, Bishop of Dorchester, to Aldhelm, a 

 priest, to build a monastery, is easily recognised as a flagrant forgery. Indeed, 

 William of Malmesbury and his fellow monks were possessed of a lively imagina- 

 tion, and their accounts associate with Glastonbury the actual presence not only 

 of St. Patrick, but of Aristobulus mentioned in St. Paul's Epistle to the Eomans, 

 and of Joseph of Arimathsea. 



Lastly, what evidence is there that the so-called Ynys Wytrin was the site of a 

 manufacture of glass ? This is a substance that is practically indestructible. 

 Has it, then, been discovered in overwhelming quantities during the seven years 

 of exploration ? On the contrary ; for in 1896 Mr. Bulleid reported that he had 

 found, of glass only "parts of two" blue beads," and by last year his total find, 

 " of rings, beads, and fragments of glass " amounted to no more than eighteen ; 

 and these of course may have been imported. Of jet, he had found one, and of 

 amber, two complete beads ; and of Kimmeridge shale, 18 fragments of rings and 

 armlets ; and these were necessarily imported. Whereas of worked bone there 

 were 320 pieces ; of horn, 255 ; of pottery, several thousand ; of bronze, 165 ; of 

 iron, 80 ; and so on. 



No single sign of glass-working has been brought to light except a fused piece 

 of that material no bigger than a woman's thimble, which counts for nothing 

 when it is remembered that the common fate of a pile-dwelling was to perish by 

 fire. 



So that the inverted pyramid of Mr. Evans's argument rests on this diminutive 

 apex. 



It may be said, in conclusion, and this is the first public statement of the fact, 

 that Mr. Bulleid has lately found in this Lake Village, some "pigmy" flint 

 implements, or to speak precisely, one and a- half. 



THE PROPOSED PRINTED KULES. A draft code of rules had been prepared by 

 the Committee elected for that purpose at the last Meeting. These rules were 

 read out by the Hon. Secretary, but it was resolved, after some discussion, that 

 they should be printed and a copy sent to each Member, the final discussion and 

 decision with regard to them being reserved for the Annual Meeeting in May. 



EXHIBITS AND NOTES. 



BY THE PRESIDENT : 



(1) A section of a discoid pebble containing faint impressions of lithistid sponge 

 structure, but only occasionally are portions of spicules visible. There are also 

 in it some very minute circular bodies with finely perforate walls and in one 

 instance with a quadrate partition. The nature of these bodies is uncertain, they 

 may be one-celled Foramimfcra or perhaps Radiolaria. 



