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man to serve as food, and the weapons for use in a future state, and 
under this supposition indubitable evidence was afforded that the 
moa and man were contemporary inhabitants of New Zealand. 
With respect to the lead celt he was of opinion that it had been 
formed in a mould for casting bronze celts as a trial celt. The Rev. 
W. C. Lucas was cited as having found similar celts in the Channel 
Islands, which had suggested the same solution for the reason of their 
occurrence. Before concluding the paper, Mr. Denny stated that in 
January, 1863, a magnificent skull of Bos primogenius was found 
beneath 4 feet of peat near the village of Reche, in Cambridgeshire, 
with the frontal bone on the upper margin of the orbits broken in, 
and the remains of a flint celt in the orifice, proving that man was 
co-eval with this great ruminant. At the conclusion of the paper, 
Mr. John Evans, F.R.S., expressed an opinion that the custom of 
burying arms with the dead may in some instances have led the 
representatives of the deceased to have put imitation weapons such 
as miniature swords or other arms in the grave along with the dead, 
and it was a matter for consideration whether this unique celt to 
which their attention had been drawn might not be an imitation 
after all, though genuine as to its antiquity, 
Mr. P. O'Callaghan, of Leeds, contributed a paper on Cromlechs 
and Rocking Stones, ethnologically and geologically considered. He 
referred to the researches of the Rev. W. C. Lucas and Sir R. C. 
Hoare, who, along with others, had clearly proved that the cromlechs 
were placed over graves. Thirty years previously, when Mr. 
O'Callaghan resided in Trinidad, he had opportunities of observing 
the aboriginal, and then nearly extinct tribes of the Caribs. He took 
great interest in observing the habits and character of these curious 
beings, and no custom of theirs impressed him more than their mode 
of disposing of their dead. Soon after life was extinct, and while 
the body was still warm, it was tied up in the smallest possible com- 
pass. The legs were bound up to the thighs, and the elbows fixed 
between the knees ; the face, which had been previously smeared 
with some reddish paint, was fastened down upon the open palms of 
the hands, and the hair thickly greased ; the body was next tightly 
swathed in a long piece of coarse cloth ; it was then left to cool and 
