Report of Society's Meetings. 181 
Notice of Motion. — The President gave notice that at 
the next meeting of the Society he proposed to make a 
communication on the Berbice River with some analyses 
of its soils. 
"Finds" of Indian Pottery on the East Coast 
Demerara. — The President laid on the table some pieces 
of very interesting pottery. Some three or four months 
ago, when the manager of Enmore was extending the 
cultivation of that estate, he came across a shell-reef 
containing human remains and pottery of various des- 
criptions ; and the other day, in taking in a piece of new 
land at Cane Grove, Mahaica Creek, the manager found 
the pottery he (Mr. Jones) now placed on the table. It 
was very curious, because it was the first ornamented 
pottery, he believed, which had been discovered here. 
Mr. im Thurn, who dug up a great nnmber of the remains 
at Enmore, had stated that the pottery was of a higher 
type than any previously known from this colony, and 
was in fact not far below that from Peru. In examin - 
ing the place, they found the pottery in small pieces, 
but very highly ornamented, and here and there they 
discovered skeletons, which seemed to have been em- 
bedded in black earth and encased in pottery, as wher- 
ever they found a skeleton the earth was black, and 
numerous pieces of pottery were found. At Cane Grove, 
they had found a skeleton so well preserved that the hair 
still remained on the skull, but unfortunately, through 
some superstition of a black man the skeleton was 
broken up, and he (Mr. Jones) was thus unable to exhibit 
it to the members, as he otherwise would have done. 
Vessels of pottery resembling cups and pots were found 
near the human remains, and it seemed to him, that the 
