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Rh THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 195 British Minister in Greece, in 1828.^ Length of the vase, 2| inches. Reddish-coloured ware, with partial lustrous glaze of dark colour. By Mr. Auldjo. — Several antique objects of terra cotta, discovered at Calvi near Capua, built on the site of the Etruscan city of Cales, celebrated for its fictile manufacture and its wine. They consisted of an antefixa, a female head, and on one side a hand grasping a fan or lotus leaf. — A female mask, for a performer on the stage ; the features of beautiful character and gentle expression. It is perforated with small holes at the sides and on the forehead, to attach it to the head of the actor. — A small medallion, the face of a Gorgon. — A caricature statuette of Vertumnus, — a little figure bearing a basket of fruit ; probably a child's toy. — Two pugi- lists ; their hands armed with the ccestus. These little figures are curious and interesting, as representing the short curly-haired Nubian boxers, with the thick lips and flat noses, sufficiently denoting their origin. By Mr. W. W. Wynne, President of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. — Drawings of various weapons of bronze, found in 1848-49, near Ebnall, Shropshire, with three palstaves and two singular objects of unknown use, resembling short blunt chisels. — Also part of a bronze sword, the point broken ofi", a gouge, coated with bright polished wrugo, and a bronze chisel, found at Porkington, the seat of W. Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P. The last is an uncommon type : one is figured in Bateman's Antiquities of Derbyshire, p. 8. These relics are in the possession of Mrs. Ormsby Gore. By the Hon. Richard Neville. — A series of rings ; two of them found in a Roman villa at Chesterford, 1848, one set with an intaglio of blue paste ; another of iron, set with a red paste, found in the Borough Field, at the same place ; — a gold ring, set with an intaglio, on ribbon onyx, found in a stone sarcophagus at York ; — a silver betrothal ring, parcel-gilt (fourteenth Bronze Signet Rings, found with Roman remains in Cambridgeshire. From tlie iiuu. K. i>tvuie s Museum at Audley End. century), found at Chesterford in 1845, inscribed iiic nazare, the hoop fashioned with clasped hands ; another, of similar form (fifteenth century), parcel-gilt, found at Bury St. Edmund's — liic nazaren' uex ivdeorvm ; — a ring of silver gilt (time, Henry VII.), with bevelled facets, engraved with fiojures of saints, found at the Borouo-h Field, Chesterford; — a latten rinir, found in the Thames, 1846, the impress is the Virgin and Child ; — another ring of latten — tl)C — found in repairing Weston Church, Sufiolk ; within is inscribed, tJtO £iatU£i ; — a gold signet ring, found at York ; the impress is a scutcheon of the arms of the Pinckney family, f'lrca 1650 (five fusils in fesse, charged with a crescent for ditferencc, within a bordure engrailed ;
 * The tortoise is the usual emblem of ^Egina.