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 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 225 f the facts connected with their discovery will form a highly valuable onijtlement to his " Eburaciun." The club contemplates the further ivestigation of the sepulchral antiquities which have already afi'orded such urious information regarding the various races, the early occupiers of iritain; and their efforts may justly claim the sympathy and assistance of rchaeologists, those especially who have any connexion with the interesting istricts adjacent to the Northern Marches. Any conmiunication may be ddrcssed to W. Procter, Esq., the Secretary of the Society at York. A very interesting congress of the Warwickshire Archaeological Society nd the Architectural Society of Northampton, commenced on May 2lst, in >t. Mary's Ilall, at Coventry. The chair was taken by C. 11. Bracehuidge, Jsq. Mr. Bloxam, whose intimate acquaintance with the ancient vestiges of is county is well known to our readers, read a memoir on Ancient-British, toman, and Saxon Remains, not hitherto noticed, especially in reference 3 discoveries on the property of the Earl Craven, at Coombe Abbey ; nd the curious collection of relics found at Newton, and now in the ossession of Mr. Goodacre, at Lutterworth. The Rev. W. Staunton gave notices of the Cathedral and Priory of St. Mary, at Coventry ; the basement of one of the western towers of the athedral remains, an interesting evidence of its site. The Rev. G. A. 'ogle followed up these memorials with observations on the Churches f Coventry. The second day was devoted to an excursion to Kenilworth and Warwick 'astles, and a discourse was delivered at the former hy the Rev. C. IIarts- [onxE, wliose extensive researches and knowledge of the characteristic eatures of Military Architecture in England contributed also materially the gratification of the numerous visitors, by his observations on the loble fortrers of the Beauchamps, to every part of which access was most iudly permitted by the Earl of Warwick. iDittsceUariEous Notices. Several important archaeological publications have recently appeared, 'hich we regret to be unable to notice fully in the present Journal. The aluable work by Mr. Wilson, Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of icotland, entitled " The Archasology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland," laims especial mention, and the interest connected with this beautiful plume is not limited to that part of the kingdom to which it is chiefly evoted ; it will be consulted with advantage and gratification by all who ave a regard for National Antiquities, and for the advancement of Scicn- fic Archajology. Mr. Henry Shaw has completed a fresh series of his incomparable
 * productions of the relics of Medieval Times, in which so strong an interest

now aroused. He has happily availed himself of opportunities recently lorded by the dispersion of several precious continental collections, chiefly rought to our own country. This beautiful volume — " The Decorative VOL. VIII. H H
 * rts of the Middle Ages, Ecclesiastical and Civil," has brought within the
 * ach of all a well-chosen series of examples, highly valuable for reference,