The following note had been received from Mr. W. J. Hen- 

 wood : — 



3, Clarence Place, Penzance, 

 1866, May 21st. 

 My dear Sir, 



By this evening's or to-morrow's book-post, I beg permission to trouble 

 you with three separate photographs of the Human Skull which, you may 

 recollect, the late Mr. J. W. Colenso presented to the Geological Society of 

 Cornwall, from Pentuan. They may, perhaps, be worth a place in the 

 Sketch Book of the Eoyal Institution. Mr. Hiixley believes the original to 

 be of British type ; and Professor Owen thinks it may have been that of 

 some brave, but unfortunate, seaman. 



I cannot help believing that there is some analogy between the " Cup- 

 Markings " of which Mr. Blight has sent you a sketch, and on which 

 Professor Simpson has had much to say elsewhere, and those at Devi Dhoora, 

 in Upper India, which I described in youi- Eeport for (I believe) 1855 or 6." 



It Avas in the Report of this Institution for 1855 that Mr. 

 Henwood stated that, near the Temple of Devi Dhoora are a great 

 number of Cromlechs, which are now used as Altars ; and that 

 each of several large granite rocks exliibited a group of five basons, 

 about six or eight inches in diameter, and evidently of artificial 

 origin. There could be no question that the markings represented 

 in Mr. Blight's drawings were of artificial formation, nor that they 

 belonged to the same class of antiquities that had attracted the 

 attention of Sir J. Simpson and other Anticjuaries. The resem- 

 blance is very striking between these markings and some found on 

 a slab in a sepulchral chamber at St. Michael's Mount, Carnac, 

 described and figured by Mr. Barnwell, in Arclueologia Cambrensis, 

 3rd Ser., Vol. X, p. 49. 



Mr. Pattison, to whom this Institution had often been in- 

 debted for communications, had now presented a very beautiful 

 set of Photographs of British Antiquities, found near Vannes, in 

 the Department of Morbihan, Brittany. The excellent plan had 

 there been adopted, of photographing all existing antiquarian re- 

 mains ; placing them in separate pictures, according to the localities 

 in which they were found. Among those now presented by Mr. 

 Pattison, was a very interesting one from Mont St. Michel, Carnac. 



Mr. Fuller of Camelford had presented a Dramng of a Barrow, 

 opened about a year ago, and in which were found human bones 

 said to be of gigantic size ; and Mr. Thomas JSTankivell, who had 

 recently returnecl to Truro from Australia, had presented a portion 

 of a curious plant of the family Lycopodium, which the colonists 

 believe to have existed from before the Flood, but which, at all 

 events, was said to have exhibited no change during the time that 

 Australia had been an English Colony. — A lady member of this 

 Institution — an excellent botanist — had informed him that similar 

 plants are found in Sumatra and other islands of the Indian Ocean. 



