52 Anniversary Address. 



empty- Besides these there was a vaulted chamber in the 

 centre of the mound, in which was found a sculptured square 

 slab, inches 39x21x10, supported by three stones resting 

 on the floor. The upper surface exhibited several incised 

 lines and cavities, the former covering a space of inches 6x2|, 

 three of them being parallel and joined at either end by an 

 oblique line. On the under surface were " five incomplete 

 cavities," and round the four sides a series of cups, 3, 4, 

 4 and 2. There was also found a large, flat, upright stone, 

 imbedded in the natural soil, which was conjectured to have 

 stood there before the erection of the barrow. Near it were 

 an antler and fragments of palmated deer horns. Several 

 deposits of bones of animals, with black mould, broken 

 pottery, and charcoal, were met with in the course of the 

 excavation, and near the top the fragments of a human skull, 

 with the mastoid portion of one of the occipital bones in a 

 good state of preservation. No implements or weapons of any 

 kind were seen* 



Among the papers published by kindred societies, which 

 possess a local interest, may be instanced 



" On the aculeate Hymenoptera of Northumberland and 

 Durham. By J. Bold. Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumb. and 

 Durh., iii." 



" On the Crustacean Fauna of the salt marshes of North- 

 umberland and Durham, 2 plates. Nat. Hist. Trans. North, 

 and Durh., iii. 



" Notes on various species of Ctenodus obtained from the 

 Northumberland Coal fields, 3 plates; remains of some 

 reptiles and fishes from the same. Nat. Hist. Trans. North, 

 and Durh., iii. By A. Hancock and T. Athey." 



On a new Labyrinthodont Amphibian from the Northum- 

 berland Coal field ; two papers ; — on some curious fossil 

 Fungi from the black shale of the Northumberland Coal 

 field, 2 plates ; — on the generic identity of Climaxodus and 

 Janessa, two fossil fishes related to the Rays, 1 plate. Ann. 

 Nat. Hist., 4th series, iv." 



* Abridged from the Trans. Hawick Arch. Soc. for Oct., 1869. 



