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requested me to draw up this account of my remarks before 

 the Society on November 13th, 1896, as to the probable 

 nature of the Calderstones, and of the correspondence 

 they gave rise to, for publication in the " Transactions " 

 as a contribution to local history. 



W. A. H. 



Kepoet of the Meeting^ 



At the second meeting of the Biological Society for the 

 present session, held on November 13th, I gave an address 

 on " The Menhirs and Dolmens of Brittany and other 

 Pre-historic Kemains," at the conclusion of which, after 

 describing the Calderstones and their markings, I suggested 

 that these standing stones had originally formed part of a 

 dolmen. This led to a considerable discussion and at the 

 end I was requested to write a letter to one of the 

 Liverpool daily papers stating the facts and asking those 

 who had any information to put it on record. 



I consequently wrote the following letter, which 

 appeared in the Liverpool " Daily Post " for Nov. 17th. 



"What aee the Caldeestones ? 



To the Editor of the Daily Post. 

 " Sir, — A somewhat dramatic incident occurred last night at the meeting 

 of the Biological Society, in connection with the original position of the 

 Calderstones ; and at the conclusion of the meeting the opinion was expressed 

 by a number of those present that you should be asked to record in your 

 columns any facts that can still be elicited as to the condition of this local 

 megalithic monument in the early part of the present century. In the 

 paper read last night to the society on the Dolmens of Brittany, I concluded 

 by comparing the spiral and other markings on the Calderstones with the 

 carvings on various neolithic dolmens, and I suggested that the Calderstones 

 were originally part of a small dolmen, which had gone to ruin, and had 

 then been re-erected in their present position by some one who supposed 

 that all so-called ' Druidical stones ' should stand in a circle. This was no 

 sooner said than Mr. E. W. Cox, who was present as a visitor, and of whose 



