THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INRTITL'TH.

Of) heartiest sympathy. The Committee hud hiul tht; honour of rccciviiifr from Lord Northaniptoii a very gnitifyiiijr ufknowlcdf^iiieiit. Slit Charles Andkiison ohservcd, that huvinjjj hoen called upon to take the cliair on this occasion, he saw with much satisfaction upon the tahlc the volume of their Transactions at the Lincoln meeting, now completed for delivery to the memhers ; and he had the pleasure to announce that the volume devoted to the history and antitpiitics of his own county would shortly he followed by the delivery of their Transactions at Norwich. Mit. n.WKi.N.s communicated a, memoir on the gold ornaments and various ancient relics of the Roman age recently purchased from Mr. I5rumeir.s cabinet for the British Museum. It is given in this volume (see p. .'lo). .Mr. G. D. Rrando.v gave an account of the discovery of Roman remains in lUickinghamshire, at Stone, a village situated three miles from Aylesbury, while excavating for the foundations of the County Lunatic Asylum, now in ])rogress of erection. Urns of various forms, of no uncommon oci'urronce amongst Romano-British remains, had been found ; and a pit containing debris of fictile vessels of the same age, seemingly a fresh example of the singular receptacles, of which many have now been noticed near sites of Roman occupation. The form of this ancient well, or favissa, is shown by the annexed sections. It was sunk through strata of rock and yellow sand alternately, and was cleared out to the depth of about 30 feet, when the work was stopped by the water. Roman uros, found at Stone, co. Hucks. Two of the urns here represented were found in the pit, at a depth of about 3ri feet from the surface of the ground. Two others lay at a distance of about 2.50 feet to the east of the pit, at a depth of 2 feet from the surface ; anil others wore found in a sand-hill, about a quarter of a mile from the spot last named. The two urns found near the surface of the ground contained hones, which had been subjected to cremation, and some coins, of which two were obtained from the workmen engaged in making the excavations. One of them appears to be of the reign of Domitian, the other of Vespasian. In clearing out the pit before alluded to, numerous fragments of pottery were found, of various colours, — black, white, red,— and some unbaked pottery ; also fragments of bones of large and small animals, promiscuously