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Ordinary Meeting, November 13th, 191 7. 



The President, 

 Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., F.I.C., in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books upon the 

 table. These included a number of Natural History publications of 

 the British Museum. 



Professor S. J. Hickson, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., communicated a 

 paper by Miss Constance Lightbown, M.Sc. on " The Siphono- 

 zooids of the Sea-pens" 



This paper appears in full in the Memoirs, 



Professor F. E. Weiss, D.Sc, F.L.S., F.R.S. then read a paper 

 on the "Regional Distribution of the Native Flora of 

 Teneriffe," by Dr. J. H. Salter. 



This paper will also be printed in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 27th, 1917. 



The President, 

 Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., F.I.C., in the Chair. 



Hon. Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. , exhibited 

 and described " Examples of Pre-Roman bronze-plated iron 

 from the Pilgrim's Way." 



Professor Boyd Dawkins, exhibited an iron snaffle-bit, an iron 

 harness-ring, and an iron hub of a wheel, covered with a thin layer of 

 bronze, discovered in 1895, on the site of a village in Bigbury Wood, 

 about two miles due West of Canterbury. The village is of Prehistoric 

 Iron Age, and is traversed by the Pilgrim's Way, and has yielded a 

 considerable number of implements to be seen in the Manchester 

 Museum. Of these the three above mentioned are of peculiar interest, 

 because they show that the art of plating iron with bronze was known 

 at that remote period, ranging indefinitely backward from the Roman 

 conquest. The plating is very thin and beautifully executed, and more 

 particularly that of the iron ring, in which the bronze surface repro- 

 duces exactly the effect of a covering of leather stitched on an iron ring. 

 With regard to the question as to how the plating was done, Dr. E. 

 Newbery has suggested that it might have been effected either by 

 plunging the carefully cleaned iron into molten bronze, or by heating 

 the iron in a furnace in which bronze was being made. 



