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On motion, the Society resolved to attend the funeral of Dr. 

 Morton. 



Mr. Peale called the attention of members to a small tract 

 which had been laid on the table by the Librarian, Mr. C. B. 

 Trego, on the title page of which there was a print of an an- 

 cient British Torque collar, and desired them to notice the 

 striking similarity that existed between it and the gold rings, 

 of African manufacture, exhibited at the last meeting of the 

 Society by Mr. W. P. Du Bois, assistant assayer of the Mint, 

 United States. 



The pamphlet states that the collar (of which a plate is given on 

 the title page) is made of brass, and that they have been found made 

 of gold and bronze. 



The African rings are of native manufacture, and twisted through- 

 out nearly their entire length, leaving only a small part of each end 

 plain and round, exhibiting a similitude which is not identical, only 

 in the fact that the African rings are not bent into hooks at each ex- 

 tremity, as in that of British manufacture. 



Mr. Peale adverted to the singular circumstance of such identity of 

 form, in rings made in parts of the earth sc widely separated, and in 

 periods of time so remote as that of the ancient Britivsh and modern 

 Africans; and stated that he had seen a gold bracelet of East Indian 

 manufacture, which was similar in construction, so far as twisted 

 strands of metal would present the same general form. 



Pending nominations, from Nos. 256 to 259, and new nomi- 

 nation, No. 260, were read. 



Stated Meeting, June 20. 



Present, seventeen members. 



Dr. Patterson, President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From Peter M'Call, dated Fourth street, 19th June, 1851, 

 acknowledging the receipt of notice of his election as a mem- 

 ber of this Society: — 



