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Rh Professor Buckland gave a description of the remains of a Roman temple, and of a very extensive town and Roman burial-ground, recently discovered near Weymouth, and illustrated his remarks by drawings, and specimens of some antiquities from the locality.

Mr. Pettigrew read a note by Samuel Birch, Esq., F.S.A., on a gold Saxon buckle found in Hampshire.

The members met in the theatre at eight o'clock, where Mr. Pettigrew first read an essay on the different kinds of embalmments among the Egyptians, and then proceeded to unroll the mummy, which had been obtained from Thebes by Colonel Needham, and secured for the Association by Mr. Pettigrew. It measured five feet two inches, and was invested with a considerable quantity of linen bandage, stained of the usual colour by the gum of the acacia, as supposed by Mr. P.; over the whole a large sheet of a pinkish colour was thrown, dyed with the carthamus tinctorius. Bituminous matter having penetrated through the sides, the bandages could not be unrolled from the body; they were therefore cut away, and among them numerous compresses were found, filling up all spaces. Time would not permit of the complete display of the mummy, but the head was fully developed, and the face was found to have been gilt, large portions of gold-leaf, upon the removal of the bandages, presenting themselves in most vivid brightness. The brain had been extracted through the nostrils, and bitumen injected into the cavity of the skull. The head had been shaven some little time before the death of the individual, who was therefore conjectured to have been a priest, though his occupation or position in life was not expressed in the hieroglyphics upon the case. The arms were folded across the chest, and at the bottom of the neck the remains of a lotus. Many other things will probably be found when the examination shall be proceeded with, which will be done at Mr. Pettigrew's leisure, and a regular account of the examination drawn up. The hieroglyphics, according to Mr. P., aided by the knowledge of Mr. Samuel Birch of the British Museum, read thus:—

1. Royal offering to Anup attached to the embalmment, that he may give wax, clothes, manifestation, all on altar? to go out in the West happy—that he may give air the movement of breath for sake of HAR (or Horns) truth speaking, son of UNNEFER child of Lady of the House SAHERENEB.

2. Royal Gift offered to Osiris resident in the West—great God—Lord of the East that he may give a good painted case (sarcophagus) in Nouteker (Divine Hades or Subterranean Region.)

3. Oh support Maut—mistress living Nutpe—great one rejoicing in Tetu (or Tattu or Tut) with thy mother, the Heaven over thee, by her name of Extender of the Heaven—that she may make thee to be with the God annihilating thy enemies in thy name of a God, directing or suffusing with other things all giving great in her name of water—great her name of thy mother .... over thee—in her name .... thee to be with the God annihilating thy enemies in thy name of a God;