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Rh By Mrs. .—A very small lady's finger ring of plain gold, probably of the seventeenth century, lately found at Rochetts, Essex.

By Mr., of Bristol.—Matrix of a medallion of an "Agnus Dei," lately found in the river Avon.

By Mr., C.B.—Photographs, plans, &c., illustrating archæological researches in Rome.

By Professor and the Rev. .—A small collection of Greek and Roman coins; specimens of pottery and other antiquities, comprising a Roman lamp of bronze in the form of a soldier's boot; lamps and glass vase from Cyprus; Cypriote jar from Idalium; a Roman lamp, Venus Victrix and Cupid. Also an Œnochoë, Romano-British, found near Cambridge.

By Mrs. .—Ancient gold earrings from Cyprus.

By Mr. .—Plan showing excavations on the site of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus; photograph of a group of architectural fragments found at Ephesus; photograph of sculptured column of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus.

By Professor .—Nine matrices of seals.

These were acquired at various periods, some in Italy, and others in Paris, and are all most probably reproductions from authentic impressions of the original seals.

1. "" Dijon, in France. A circular seal, 3 in. in diameter. In the field, which is circular and is 1 in. in diameter, is a figure on horseback to the right, bareheaded, with a hawk on the right hand, near which is an eight-rayed flamboyant sun, and, in front of the horse, a crescent. Round this field is a circle about in. wide, on which is the legend in fourteenth-century characters. Outside this is another circle of twenty divisions with semicircular arches, containing boldly projecting heads of varied character and expression, one head in each arch; but this portion is less perfect than the inner. There is engraved in the "Trésor de Glyptique," by Le Normant, "Sceaux des Communes," pl. xiv., a seal very similar, but it differs in having no arches over the heads in the outer circle.

2. "" Condom, in France. A circular seal, 3 in. in diameter. The device is a fortified town (of the twelfth century), with five square towers, four of which have arched gateways. In front of the largest tower is a bridge with three pointed arches, under which a river is flowing; from the gateway of this tower a knight on horseback is issuing to cross the bridge. In the town is seen the Cathedral; its gable end is surmounted by a cross, and there is a central tower.

3. "" Provins, in France. A circular seal, 2 in. in diameter, probably of the fourteenth century. The device is a three-quarter figure of the saint in full costume, a crosier in his right hand and a cross in his left. In the field are two eight-pointed stars, and four small groups of three dots each. St. Quiriac is the patron saint of Ancona; the Cathedral there being dedicated to him.

4. "" Rabon, in the Hautes Alps of France. A circular seal, 1 in. in diameter; probably late in fifteenth century. The device is a knight in armour on horseback, galloping to the right. On his left arm is a shield, charged with a bend. His mantle floats in the wind, and in his raised right hand