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 THE ROYAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 189 jicrmittod to approach your Iioyal Highness with the expression of our lieartfelt thankfulness and congratulations on your recoveiy from a long and dangeriius illness. " We trust that your Royal Highness may be speedily restored to ])erfect health and strength, and that it may be the Divine pleasure to give you a long, prosperous, and happy life, and enable you to iierfurm the high duties of your illustrious station. "In addition to such feelings of thankfulness for the recovery of your lloyid Higlniess, which we feel in common with other scientific societies in the country, we have a special feeling of regard towards your Royal Highness on account of your being a patron of this Institute, and on account of the high favour often shown to us by your Royal Parents, and we trust we may be permitted to look to your Royal Highness in years to come for a continuance of such gracious encouragement and condescension. (Signed) " Talbot ue Malauide, President. "Royal Archaeological Institute, " 16, New Burlington Street, W. " Fehruarij, 1872." " Marlborough House, Pall Mall, S.W., February 24th, 1872. "General Sir William KuoUys has been directed by tlie Prince of Wales to return to the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Archicological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland his sincere thanks for their Address of Congratulation on his rccoveiy. His Royal Hi<'h- ness is grateful for their good wishes, and it will ever be a source of l>ride and satisfaction to him to have been in any measure conducive to the success of their Institute. "The Lord Talbot de Malahide, President, etc. tc" The Hon. W. 0. Stanley, M.P., gave an account of the discovery of a Roman cake of copper, impressed with a stamp, which had been found at the Paris mine at Amlwch, near Beaumaris, Anglesea. This Memoir will be given in a future portion of the Journal. The CiiAiRMAX made some remarks upon the mode of transit by which such weights could be conveyed in early times. So lately as fifty years ago pack-horses were in common use in Monmouthshire, and the tracks were so worn that they were said to travel in ditches. The Secretary then read " A few notes on a recent discovery of Roman bronzes and other relics at Baden, in Aargau, Switzerland," by Dr. P'erdinand Keller, late president of the Society of Antiquaries of Ziirich. " In November of hist year a find of Roman antiquities, of considerable value and interest, occurred at Baden, in the canton of Argovie, in the northern part of Switzerland. Baden, situated about four leagues from Ziirich, was a favourite resort in Roman times, on account of the re- markable thermal springs that still exist there. The place is mentioned l)y Tacitus, in his ' History' (Book I., c. 67), as of considerable import- ance, ' Locus in modum municipii exstructus,' and vestiges of Roman occupation arc there to be found in .abundance, but manj' feet below the jtrcsent surface. Early in the winter one of the innkeepers, in foi-ming the foundations of a wa.sh-house, brought to light a great ninnbcr of curious ancient implements of bronze and iron, and, besides these appLi-