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PltuCEEDlNGS AT MEETINGS OF massive gold, cliascil aiul wrmiglit with coiisiilerable taste ; it was intciuled, probably, to bold an aromatic pastille or preservative against poison and infection. The diiiraeter is nearly two inches ; at one end there is a small ring, the attachment at the other end is lost. The weight is about two and a half ounces. An earthy matter was found within, which proved on exposure to heat to be highly aromatic. This ornament, of the close of the XVth or early part of the XV 1th century, had been lately found on the Surrey side of the Thames by a bargeman who was endeavouring to fix his anchor in the bank of tlie river. A good example of the use of such " pomanders " is supplied by the portrait of a citizen of Frankfort, in the Staidel gallery in that city : it is dated lo04. A gold ball of like proportions is a|ipended to his string of paternosters.^ By Mr. Fokkkst. — A Majolica dish, from the Baron collection at Paris, representing the finding of Romulus and Remus, painted by Francesco Xanto Avello, of Rovigo, at Urbino, in the year 1533. It is a beautiful example of gold and ruby-coloured lustre. — A small stove-tile, of Nurem- berg pottery, date about 1560, on which is represented in relief a demi- Hgure of a crowned personage holding a covered cup ; two escutcheons are introduced, or (?) a lion rampant azure, and anjent, a bend sahlc. — A small tuiikani-shaped vessel of stone ware, of the XVIth century, orna- mented with a ujedallion in relief, representing a male and a female head conjoined, their faces turned in contrary directions. By Mr. W. Di:i:hi; Salmon. — The iron cross-bar, part of the frame-work of a pouch or aulnioniere, found in ploughing at Newark Priory, Surrey. By Mr. Fauueu. — Two fine plates of enamelled copper. One represents the Nativity : Joseph is seen seated at the foot of a bed in which the Virgin is reposing, and above is introduced the infant Saviour in swad- dling clothes. The other bears a figure of St. Peter. The field is richly gilt in both examples, which are of the early part of the XI 1th century. By Mr. Geouge V. Du Noyeu. — A drawing representing the emblems of the Passion, carved in low relief on the sullit of the arch of a window at ISallinacarriga Castle, Dun- niaiiway, co. Cork. (See woodcut.) The building was erected in 1585, and that date appears with the initials — R'MC'C — being those of Robert McCarty, calliil McCarty Carriga, carved on stone, as shown by u sketch sent by Mr. Dii Noyer. With the more u.-^ual emlilems, — the scourges, pillar, the ladder, spciir-head, hammer and pincer.M, the foot j)ierced by a nail, aiid the pierced hand with a nail pointed of h'Ks common occurrence. towards it, s rinious carving presnits mime ll.-fii. r. C.si,