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nation of the serrated zig-zag with the circle, triangle, and other geo- 
metrical figures, seems to have been characteristic of the Teutonic or 
Germanic tribes. 
Itis to be regretted that M.de Bonstetten has not more minutely de- 
scribed the pottery found by himinthese tombs. He mentions it only in 
general terms; and does not say whether it exhibited any or what kind 
of ornamentation; nor does he tell us whether the fragments disin- 
terred by him were the ruins of sepulchral urns, or articles for culinary 
er domestic use. It is most probable, therefore, that they were of the 
latter class, for it is scarcely to be supposed that if they had been of the 
nature of our clay sepulchral urns, of which so many specimens are pre- 
served in your Museum, so accomplished an antiquary would have 
passed them over without notice. 
The following heel-ball rubbings, made by Captain W. Persse New- 
enham, R. N., were presented by that gentleman to the Academy :— 
Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, from brasses in St. Mary’s Redcliff Church, 
Bristol. 
Nos. 5 and 6, from brasses in the Temple Church, Bristol. 
No. 7, from a brass in Swainswick Church, Bath. 
No. 8, from a brassin the Abbey Church, Bath. 
Nos. 9 and 10, from Turkish tombs brought from the Crimea. 
Nos. 11 and 12, from sculptured stones found in a by-street in 
Alexandria. 
Also, copies of inscriptions from a temple built by Psamitik II. (the 
Psammis of Herodotus), who reigned six years (from 597 or 596 to 591 
or 590, B.C.). The king is represented making offerings to different 
deities. 
MONDAY, MAY 24, 1858. 
James HentHorn Topp, D.D., President, in the Chair. 
On the recommendation of the Council, it was— 
Resotvep, That the sum of £50 be placed at the disposal of the 
Committee of Antiquities, for the purpose of purchasing articles for the 
Museum. 
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant having arrived, — 
The PrestpEnt delivered the following Address :— 
My Lorps anp Genttemen,—The Council have imposed upon me 
the grateful task of announcing to you their recent award of the Cun- 
ningham Medals, and of explaining to you the grounds upon which they 
have adjudged them to the four gentlemen te whom I am commissioned 
to deliver them at this meeting ; but I must, in the first instance, return 
thanks to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, who has most kindly 
consented to give additional honour to the distinction conferred upon those 
gentlemen by his presence on this occasion. 
R, I, ACAD, PROC.—YOL, VII. I 
