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letters" (in that inscription found at Birdoswald) "are ST, a.nd 

 that the Mocl'ms JusMs named here is the same who, at a different 

 time, was LEG* AVG- PR- PE, of Numidia. He is mentioned 

 in the inscription given by Renier, Inscriptions de VAlgerie, n. 

 44." It is remarltable that in this conjecture Dr. McOaul was 

 anticipated by Hiibner in J/«..s. Ehein. 14, 1859, p. 360. Similarly 

 also in n. 1003, the nomen of the procurator there mentioned, which 

 had been seriously misstated, was given in the Canadian Journal, vol. 

 iv., p. 356, 1859, (and reprinted in " Britanno-Roman Inscriptions," 

 p. 147,) as Oclatinius, and the person identified v/ith Oclatiniv^ 

 Adventtts, the colleague of Elagabalus in the Consulship, whilst 

 Hiibner refers to Ehein. Mus. 14, 1859, p. 68, and 11, 1857, p. 44, 

 for the same conjecture. On this subject we may mention that the 

 only copy of any number of the Rheinische Museum that we have seen, 

 or that most probably is to be found in any part of Canada, is No. \ 

 for 1856, containing an article by Hiibner on the Roman army in 

 Britain, which is referred to in the notes or P.SS. of " Britanno- 

 Roman Inscriptions," and in the Canadian Journal, vol. xiii., p. 139, 

 1871. Under such circumstances, it appeai-s that these two conjec- 

 tures were foi-med independently by the two inquirers sej^arated by 

 the Atlantic. It also is evident that the Canadian Jou^rnal (although 

 occasionally referred to by the German Editor) is as little known in 

 Berlin as the Rheinische Museum is in Toronto. Indeed, our peri- 

 odical is not included in the list of Ephemerides et Similia, given on 

 p. xii; of " Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinse." . The volume published 

 in Toronto, entitled " Britanno-Roman Inscriptions," however, is 

 mentioned among the works consulted by the Editor, who in some 

 places notices explanations .or i-eadings as first ofiered in that 

 volume, with references to the pages. Whilst we claim then, as 

 we justly may, due credit for those readings or explanations 

 that were first published in our Canadian works, we doubt not 

 that Professor Hiibner, if he had been aware of them, would have 

 readily acknowledged priority, as he has courteously done in other 

 instances."'^ 



* Such, for example, as in n. 63 — " Clarium Apollinem, non clarum, id olhn 

 verterant, intellegendum esse perspcxit McCaul, Brit. Horn, inscr. p. 154;" n. 'ZS'Z — 

 •' Cojisides a. 225 latere vidit McCaul, qui etiam litteras singulares v. 5 in fint 

 rede solvit primus;" and in n, '79-1 — "Hoc recte prlmm monuit McCaul, Brit. 

 Rom. hiscr. p. 159." - 



