1907-1908.] go 



the list of 1907 were catalogued eleven more papers by members 

 of the Club — Madame R. Christin and Messrs. Robert Patterson, 

 F.L.S., N. H. Foster, M.B.O.U., W. Rankin, A. W. Stelfox, 

 W. J. C. Tomlinson, R. L. Praeger, M.R.I.A., W. H. Phillips, 

 Robert Welch, M.R.I.A., Joseph Wright, F.G.S., and J. Strachan; 

 a record of which any society might well feel proud. 



A discussion followed, the different suggestions in the report 

 being commented upon by Messrs. Robert Patterson, F.L.S.; 

 Robert Welch, M.R.I.A.; William Gray, M.R.I.A.; and C. 

 Cunningham. Mrs. Hobson received the warm congratulations 

 of the meeting upon her masterly report, and also for her 

 interesting lecture on Leicester, after which the proceedings 

 terminated. 



Archaeological Section. 



"NOTES ON EARLY CHRISTIAN ORNAMENTS IN ITALIAN 

 CHURCHES." 



A meeting of the above Section was held on the evening of 

 the 1 8th March, the President (Mr. R. Patterson, F.L.S., M.R.I. A.) 

 in the chair. A paper on " Notes on Early Christian Ornament 

 in Italian Churches" was read by Miss Lamb. After a short 

 introduction on the symbols used by the early Christian Church, 

 Miss Lamb went on to say that Mosaics and interlaced patterns 

 were the two styles of ornament of which she wished to speak. 

 Mosaics were of great antiquity. The Romans brought the art to 

 perfection, not only in pavements, but also in covering walls 

 and vaulting. It was therefore natural the Christians should use 

 Mosaics for the decoration of their churches, and at Ravenna they 

 found the best and earliest examples of this kind of decoration. 

 The Baptistery, founded in 430 a.d., in the reign of the Emperor 

 Valentinian III., has suffered little from the shocks of time. The 



