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cumstance to mention. Mr. Cook was very ingenious and a good 
draughtsman, and had made a coloured catalogue illustrative 
of each of the principal objects contained in the collection. It 
was the most remarkable piece of work he had ever met with. 
That of course remained in the possession of the family. 
The Chairman said he was sure they would have great 
pleasure in giving a vote of thanks to Mr. Kenrick for his 
distinguished liberality to that society. He knew Mr. Cook 
many years since, when he (Mr. Gray) was a little boy. Mr. 
Cook showed him his geological collection twenty-five years 
since, and that, he understood, was to come into the possession 
of the society. With respect to the specimens of glass in the 
present collection, he said he did not know whether, a thousand 
years hence, people would think so much of them as they did, but 
certainly there was more elegance in the specimens before them 
than in what they were doing now in that way. He then put 
the vote of thanks, which was carried unanimously. 
December 3rd. —The Rev. J. Kenrick having personally 
acknowledged the vote of thanks which had been accorded to 
him at the last monthly meeting of the society, for his handsome 
present of the antiquarian collection of the late Mr. James Cook, 
made the following observations :—The Roman coin exhibited, 
found in the railway excavations, is a second brass of the 
Emperor Domitian, in good preservation, though its beauty has 
suffered from attempts to remove the patina so dear to numis¬ 
matists. On the obverse it hears the head of the Emperor with 
the legend Imp. Caes. Domit. Aug. Germ. Cos. xiii. Ce7is. 
Perp. P.P. On the reverse it has the legend Virtuti Augusii 
S. C.j with a military figure standing. The thirteenth consul¬ 
ship of Domitian corresponds to the year A. d. 87, and the in¬ 
scription Virhiti Augusii is a piece of self-flattery, since his 
wars with the Germans were carried on by his legates, while he 
kept aloof from the scene of action.^ The title of Perpetual 
Censor, which had been declined by Augustus, though he exer¬ 
cised the power, *f* was first assumed by Domitian. Since my 
paper on the monument of ^lia Uliana was read, it has been 
Dion Domit. c. 4. f Sueton Octavian. c. 27. 
