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floor varying from two to three inches in thickness, underlying 

 the stalagmite, with which the bottom of the cave was encrusted; 

 and this circumstance induced him to think that the various 

 things found all belonged to one period. Besides the articles 

 already enumerated, there had been found two very beautiful 

 gold pieces, which he brought with him for the inspection of 

 the Club. One of these was apparently an armlet of a type 

 which was not unfrequently found. The other was a sort of 

 hollow ring — a kind of capsule. It was a very curious object,, 

 and it was difficult to assign the use to which it had been put : 

 possibly it might have been used as money. Mr. Greenwell only 

 knew of four or five similar capsules that had been found : one in 

 Anglesea, one in Scotland, two or three in Ireland, and another 

 near Alnwick, where it was discovered in making a railway cut- 

 ting. Could all the articles found in the Heathery Burn cave 

 have been gathered together, they would have formed one of the 

 most valuable collections in the country, and would have given 

 at a glance some idea of the habits of the people who inhabited 

 Great Britain at a period previous to the Eoman invasion. 



Mr. Greenwell' s highly interesting account of these remains 

 was followed by a paper, from Mr. Mark Bullen, " On a Method 

 of injecting Anatomical Preparations for the Microscope." Mr. 

 Bullen illustrated his paper by the exhibition of some very beau- 

 tiful injections, which had been made by means of the apparatus 

 which he had devised. 



The last paper read at this Meeting was " On the Present 

 State of our Knowledge of JEozoon canadense, by Mr. H. B. Brady, 

 F.L.S." who advocated the views of Sir "W. Logan and Dr. Car- 

 penter as to the structure of this rock, ascribing its appearance 

 to the fossilization of organic remains belonging to an animal 

 which he would refer to the Poraminifera ; while he combated the 

 opinion of those who maintain its inorganic origin and structure. 



Two gentlemen were elected members, and thus we brought 

 to a conclusion our sessions for the winter season. 



Exactly twenty years have passed since a few gentlemen met 

 in a room not far from that in which we are now assembled, and 



