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Institution is a photograph of a careful drawing by Mr. A. Mul- 

 ready, copied on an enlarged scale, and in the possession of Mr. 

 Smirke. It is, in fact, a proposed restoration founded on the 

 seal, and not on the'work of Bandinelli as now seen at Rome. 



Sculptured Eocks. Dr. Barham, referring to a communi- 

 cation which he had received from Mr. Mac Lauchlan, and to that 

 gentleman's book on the Sculptured Rocks of Northumberland, 

 &c., remarked that the only instance in which anything of the 

 kind had been found in Cornwal], was where Mr. Blight had dis- 

 covered five or six cup-markings on a rock. With that single 

 exception, there was no known instance of the occurrence in this 

 county, of those peculiar inscriptions, which would appear, in the 

 North of England, to have constituted a species of Itinguage. In 

 the North they were found sculptured on Sand-stone ; but he 

 thought the difficulty of inscribing the harder rocks of Cornwall 

 would have been overcome, had its inhabitants been of the same 

 race as the northern people. Possibly the early association and 

 metal trade of Cornwall with the Phoenicians, really did away 

 with that comparatively barbarous age in which those inscriptions 

 were made in other parts of Britain and in Ireland. 



Coins. After reading a note from Mr. Rogers, of Penrose, 

 concerning the discovery of Anglo-Saxon Coins, &c., at Trewhid- 

 dle, in 1774, Dr. Barham reminded the members and friends of 

 this Institution, of Mr. Albert Way's suggestion that a collection 

 of coins (or impressions, where originals could not be procured) 

 in illustration of any traceable connection of the ancient Romans 

 with Cornwall, would form a very interestmg addition to the 

 Museum of this Institution. 



Osteology. Speaking of the prepared skeletons presented 

 by Mr. Luke Wade, Dr. Barham suggested that further donations 

 of the same kind, and particularly of the smaller animals, would 

 be very acceptable ; the Museum being at present somewhat 

 deficient in its illustrations of Osteology. 



Dr. Jago read a note from Mr. T. A. Cragoe, of Penhellick, 

 speaking of his visit, in June, 1868, to the "Peaks of Otter," 

 one of the highest of the Alleghany Range of Mountains, in 

 Virginia. Near its summit, at an altitude of about 5000 feet, 

 where large trees fail, and which impinges on the region of eternal 

 snow, the Rhododendron was in full bloom, forming, with the 

 luxuriant blossoms of the Mountain Laurel, a charming sight. 

 The apex of this mountain (Mr. Cragoe adds) is granite, huge 

 cubes piled upon each other, not only resembling the Tors of 



