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thought that, as two years had now elapsed, and his own reading 

 of the legend had not yet been announced, it was time that 

 he should make it known. Mr. Langdon had, he considered, 

 missed seeing part of the third letter of the Latin Inscription, 

 consequently Mr. Langdon read the words in cenvi memoria 

 whereas he (Mr. lago) read them ingenvi memoria. The 

 difference between and Q- altered the name of the deceased 

 person commemorated, and affected other considerations of 

 importance. 



According to Mr. Langdon's C, the name would be regarded 

 as " Cenuus" and might be taken for a Celtic name Latinized, 

 but according to Mr. lago's reading of G, the name appeared 

 to be none other than the very well-known Latin Cognomen 

 "Ingenuus." 



The Ogham characters on the angle of the stone support 

 Mr. lago's reading, inasmuch as certainly a Q- and perhaps an 

 NG can there be traced in the duplicate rendering of the name, 

 Mr. lago quoted other Roman inscriptions in which the name 

 Ingenuus has been found. 



He then pointed out, by means of diagrams, a full collection 

 of Ogham characters and how they are to be read, and gave 

 descriptions of several other stones on which such markings 

 occur. He also shewed how ingeniously Professor Ehys of 

 Oxford and Mr. Eomilly Allen of London had arrived at an 

 interpretation of the Lewannick Oghams on a particular portion 

 of the stone where the marks were somewhat irregularly and 

 unusually arranged, but neither Mr. Ehys nor Mr. Allen had 

 seen the stone itself. 



The President remarked that this valuable ancient relic 

 had run a risk of being lost to science, for on a personal visit to 

 the stone he had been informed that, some time ago, it had been 

 proposed that it should be taken up, out of the ground, that it 

 might be cast away as useless. Fortunately it still stands where 

 it has stood from time unknown. Antiquarian friends should 

 keep an eye on such things. 



Mr. E. A. Wiinsch, F.G.S. read a paper on " Diamonds and 

 the Kimberley mines of South Africa," remarking that for the 

 technical and statistical part of his paper he was indebted to his 



