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to do with it, for on adding the solution of bromine to that 
of chloroform until the purple is changed into a light brown, 
then shaking well with water, the colour of the chlo- 
roform becomes much paler and even disappears almost 
completely. 
E. W. Binney, V.P., F.R.S, said that at the last meeting 
he had stated the circumstance of an urn containing bronze 
coins having been discovered under a peat moss. He now 
exhibited two small coins of bronze, about half an inch in 
diameter, evidently Roman from the figures on them, and 
most probably of the reign of Otho. They were found sixty 
years since under a peat bog of fifteen feet in depth, in an 
earthenware urn buried in the upper red marl of Misterton 
Car, in Notts, which forms the southern portion of the Level 
of Hatfield Chace, a large turf moss on the borders of the 
counties of York, Lincoln, and Nottingham. Some hundred 
coins were in the urn, and the two in his possession were 
presented to him about fifty years since by his relative the 
late Mrs. Joseph Hickson of East Stockwith, on whose pro- 
perty they were met ^\^ith, and who furnished him with the 
above particulars. In the peat under which they occurred 
numbers of large oak and yew trees, with their roots 
attached to them, were as thickly placed as they could have 
grown on dry and strong soil. At the period when the urn 
w^as deposited, the spot was a dense forest, which was prob- 
ably destroyed by the drainage of the district having been 
impeded by the raising of the beds of the rivers Trent, 
Ouse, and Idle, and thus causing the formation of the bog. 
The Dutch, under the direction of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, 
and more modern drainers, have succeeded in bringing the 
land into a state fit for corn growing, but not capable of 
producing such oaks and yews as are now found, with their 
roots attached to them, lying in the peat, 
