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The Eev. J. Keneick, in presenting a copy of a Eeport made by 
Dr. Emil Hiibner of Berlin, on his recent visit to England, called 
attention to his remarks on an inscription in onr Mnsenm which 
had not hitherto been explained. It is on the base of a small altar, 
found near the Eoman Wall in St. Leonard’s Place, and reads 
thus: — 
DAII F. 
PRO SA. I. . . . 
AVSPICA. . . . 
MAII . SIM. . 
I. D. D. II. . . 
METROS. . 
ME . I. 
It is evident that a female figure has originally stood on the top 
of the pedestal which bears the inscription, but only the lower 
border of the garment remains, and the tenor of the inscription is 
not doubtful. It is a votive offering undertaken for the safety of 
some one whose name cannot be certainly assigned, by Metrobius or 
Metrobianus. The great difficulty is in the first word. Professor 
Hiibner reads it as equivalent to “ Deae.” He observes that this 
omission of e in Beus occms in other inscriptions in England. Thus 
on the neck of a vase which he saw at Lincoln, do miiecveio, i. 
Deo Mercurio, and in a well-known inscription found at Bowes, 
DAE FOETVNAE. The use of II for E is found in many inscriptions, 
as in that at Lincoln, just quoted. Mr. Lee, in his hca Silurum, 
has engraved a legionary tile on which lug stands for Legionis, 
and a slab on which caiiciajsti stands for Cseciani. The same pecu¬ 
liarity is found in a Marsic inscription, given in the Corpus Inscr., 
vol. I., p. 34, and is frequent in the graffiti, or wall-scribblings at 
Pompeii, where we have diajstaii. for Dianse. Dr. Hiibner tliinks 
that the f which follows is the beginning of Fortunes and that the 
altar was dedicated to this goddess. 
A paper was also read, on some new Coprolite workings in the 
Pens,” by Me. J. E. Walkee. These workings are situated about 
a mile from the village of Upware, which hes about twelve miles 
from Cambridge and seven from Ely. The bed is gravelly, and 
somewhat resembles that at Potton,i^' though less impregnated with 
iron. The shells proper to the bed are composed of carbonate of 
calcium, whilst those at Potton are ferruginous. The derived fos- 
* See Report Y. P. S., 1866, pp. 29—31. 
