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The honorary secretarj^ read a communication from Dr. Pritchard, 
of Filey, on the Discovery of Roman Remains on the Cairn Head 
immediately above the Brigg. The author, in conjunction with 
Professor Phillips, had excavated a large barrow, which had been 
exposed in section by the falling away of a portion of the cliff. Five 
large stones were found set at 12 or 15 feet apart, they were tooled, 
and on one of them was a representation of a stag and dog or wolf 
carved on it ; numerous bones, fragments of pottery, charred wood, 
coins and other objects were found ; and amongst them the two 
stones of a hand mill or quern, about 2 feet in diameter. The author 
surmises that this may have been the site of a Roman fort, of which 
there was probably a series extending along the coast to prevent 
invasions by the Saxons. 
The Council of the Society was called together on the 12th 
November, 1858, to consider the appointment of a President to 
succeed the late Earl Fitzwilliam, and after discussion it was unani- 
mously decided to recommend Lord Goderich for the office, and 
at the meeting of the Society subsequently held at Bradford, on 
Wednesday, December 8th, 1858, at noon ; the Mayor, Henry Brown, 
Esq., presided, and he, having welcomed the Society to Bradford, 
Mr. Thomas Wilson, in complimentary terms, moved that Viscount 
Goderich, M.P., be elected President of the Society in place of the 
late Earl Fitzwilliam, to whom he paid an affectionate tribute. The 
motion was seconded by Mr. H. Briggs, and carried unanimously. 
The Rev. Ed. TroUope, M.A., F.S.A., of Leasingham, read a 
paper on the Alluvial Lands and Submarine Forests of Lincoln- 
shire. The author described the great buried forests on the coast of 
Lincolnshire embedded in a deposit of peat, beneath which are sands 
and gravels containing boulders, large yellow water-worn flints, teeth 
and bones of elephants and various animals. He quotes the descrip- 
tion of De la Pryme in his paper on Hatfield Chase (Phil. Trans. 
No. 275, p. 980), in which he describes " infinite millions of the 
roots and bodies of trees, great and little, of most part of the sorts 
that this island either formerly did, or at present does produce, as 
firs, oaks, birch, beech, yew, winthorn, willow, ash, &c., the roots of 
all or most of which stand in the soil in their natural postures, as 
