president's address. Ixxxi. 



Mr. Carter, Inspector of Monuments in Upper Egypt, also 

 deserves mention. It is a magnificent sarcophagus of granite, 

 covered with texts from the Book of the Dead. Besides 

 mummified offerings of various articles of food made to the 

 dead king between 3,000 or 4,000 years ago, much pottery of 

 blue faience, with fragments of exquisitely-shaped cups and 

 vases of rich blue, or variegated glass, were found in small 

 chambers close by, the most unique find of all being the actual 

 chariot made for the king, of wood covered with papier-mache 

 of papyrus, on which the battles fought by this Pharaoh in 

 Syria had been carved. Nor must the work proceeding at Lake 

 Nemi, in Italy, be forgotten, where the Government, assisted 

 by the owner, Prince Orsini, is trying to raise two galleys 

 belonging to the Emperor Caligula, wrecked on that lake a.d. 41. 

 They have been already found to contain much splendid mosaic 

 work and many bronze figures and ornaments. At home we 

 have to record the discovery of lake dwellings at Ellesmere ; of 

 the opening of a great mound and a subterranean house con- 

 taining many rooms at Orkney ; also of new buildings revealed 

 at Cluniac Priory, Much Wenlock ; of pewter pottery and glass 

 at Silchester ; of 7,000 or more diff'erent bronze coins at 

 Caerwent, besides minor discoveries at Shrewsbury, Canter- 

 bury, and London, showing the great energy, activity, and 

 interest which is being everywhere shown in these matters. 

 Last, but not least, the remains of a Roman residence or villa 

 at Fifehead Neville in this county has lately been unearthed on 

 the property of Mr. Wingfield Digby. 



Astronomy. 



In astronomical science it would be beyond my competence to 

 do more than give a very cursory glance at the progress made 

 and the experience noted. The surface of the sun has been most 

 unusually quiescent, but in consequence of the formation of a 

 new group of spots on the iSth September and subsequent days 



