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segment was its anterior epiphysis. The brain-case therefore 
being modified from the plan of a single vertebra. 
The lower jaw, both by homology in embracing the respira- 
tory and digestive systems and by development, would be the 
hemal epiphysis or representative of a rib to the parietal segment 
of the skull. 
In conclusion, the author regarded the skull as the terminal 
segment of the body, each of its three regions being modified 
on the plan of the corresponding structures of the adjacent and 
continuous regions of the body. 
March 12, 1866. 
The Presipent (W. H. Cooxson, D.D., Master of St Peter's 
College) in the Chair. 
The following new Fellows were elected : 
W. J. Beamont, M.A., Trinity. 
N. Goopman, B.A., St Peter's. 
On the Homeric Tumuli. By F. A. Pauuy, M.A. 
THE object of this paper was to shew that most of the facts 
which have been ascertained from the exploration of sepulchral 
barrows in this and other countries may also be verified histo- 
rically, and with considerable minuteness, from the Homeric 
poems, in which much that appears authentic is said about 
the tumuli of the Grecian and Trojan heroes, and also about 
the ceremonies of interment. These facts were collected and 
compared with a view of shewing the very great antiquity 
