bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Assessing the Impact of Relative Social Position and Absolute Community Resources on Depression and Obesity Among Smokers
Authors: Aguilera Adrian , Leykin Yan , Adler Nancy , Muñoz Ricardo F.
Published: January 2012

We tested two competing hypotheses—relative social position and community resources—in regards to their effect on two co‐occurring health problems (depression, and obesity) in a sample of smokers participating in an online smoking cessation intervention. Income and education data at the zip code level from the 2000 Census was linked with individual level data. Logistic regression models were used for each co‐occurring problem to determine how each SES variable (individually and interactively) was associated with the presence of co‐occurring health problems. We found that lower individual education was related to poorer health for all outcomes (Depression: OR = 1.25; Obesity: OR = 1.24; Both: OR = 1.46), lower community education was only related to obesity (OR = 1.20). Lower individual income was related to higher rates of depressive symptoms (OR = 1.64) and both health problems (OR = 1.55); a significant interaction of individual and community income (Wald = 6.13, p < .05) revealed that high income individuals were less likely to be depressed if they lived in lower‐income communities and became more likely to be so as community income increased. Relative social position was confirmed for depression, whereas community resources were prominent only for obesity. Higher individual education most consistently predicted positive health outcomes, making it a potentially powerful target to reduce health disparities.
Vorticity forces on an impulsively started finite plate
Authors: Lee Jian-Jhih , Hsieh Cheng-Ta , Chang Chien C. , Chu Chin-Chou
Published: January 2012

In this study, we consider various contributions to the forces on an impulsively started finite plate from the perspective of a diagnostic vorticity force theory. The wing plate has an aspect ratio (AR) between 1 and 3, and is placed at low and high angles of attack ($\ensuremath{\alpha} \leq $ and ${\gt }2{0}^{\ensuremath{\circ} } $), while the Reynolds number is either 100 or 300. The theory enables us to quantify the contributions to the forces exerted on the plate in terms of all of the fluid elements with non-zero vorticity, such as in the tip vortices (TiVs), leading- and trailing-edge vortices (LEV and TEV) as well on the plate surface. This line of force analysis has been pursued for two-dimensional flow in our previous studies. In contrast to the pressure force analysis (PFA), the vorticity force analysis (VFA) reveals new salient features in its applications to three-dimensional flow by examining sectional force contributions along the spanwise direction. In particular, at a large aspect ratio ($\mathit{AR}= 3$), the force distributions of PFA and VFA show close agreements with each other in the middle sections, while at a lower aspect ratio ($\mathit{AR}= 1$), the force distribution of PFA is substantially larger than that of VFA in most of the sections. The difference is compensated for by the contributions partly by the edge sections and mainly by the vortices in the outer regions. Further investigation is made fruitful by decomposing the vorticity into the spanwise (longitudinal) component (the only one in two-dimensional flow) and the other two orthogonal (transverse) components. The relative importance of the force contributions credited to the transverse components in the entire flow regions as well as in the two outer regions signifies the three-dimensional nature of the flow over a finite plate. The interplay between the LEV and the TiVs at various time stages is shown to play a key role in distinguishing the force contributions for the plate with a smaller aspect ratio and that with a larger aspect ratio. The present VFA provides a better perspective for flow control by relating the forces directly to the various sources of vorticity (or vortex structures) on or near the wing plate.
Cuticular and internal n-alkane composition ofLucilia sericatalarvae, pupae, male and female imagines: application of HPLC-LLSD and GC/MS-SIM
Authors: Gołębiowski M. , Paszkiewicz M. , Grubba A. , Gąsiewska D. , Boguś M.I. , Włóka E. , Wieloch W. , Stepnowski P.
Published: January 2012

The composition of cuticular and internal n-alkanes inLucilia sericatalarvae, pupae, and male and female imagines were studied. The cuticular and internal lipid extracts were separated by HPLC-LLSD, after which the hydrocarbon fraction was identified by GC/MS in selected ion monitoring (SIM) and total ion current (TIC) modes.

The cuticular lipids of the larvae contained seven n-alkanes from C23to C31. The major n-alkane inL. sericatalarvae was C29(42.1%). The total cuticular n-alkane content in the cuticular lipids was 31.46 μg g−1of the insect body. The internal lipids ofL. sericatalarvae contained five n-alkanes ranged from C25to C31. The most abundant compound was C27(61.71 μg g−1of the insect body). Eighteen n-alkanes from C14to C31were identified in the cuticular lipids of the pupae. The most abundant n-alkanes ranged from C25to C31; those with odd-numbered carbon chains were particularly abundant, the major one being C29:0(59.5%). Traces of eight cuticular n-alkanes were present. The internal lipids ofL. sericatapupae contained five n-alkanes, ranging from C25to C31. The cuticular lipids of female imagines contained 17 n-alkanes from C12to C30. Among the cuticular n-alkanes of females, C27(47.5%) was the most abundant compound. Four n-alkanes, with only odd-numbered carbon chains, were identified in the internal lipids of females. The lipids from both sexes ofL. sericatahad similar n-alkane profiles. The cuticular lipids of adult males contained 16 n-alkanes ranging from C13to C31. C27(47.9%) was the most abundant cuticular n-alkanes in males. The same n-alkanes only with odd-numbered carbon chains and in smaller quantities of C27(0.1%) were also identified in the internal lipids of males.

The highest amounts of total cuticular n-alkanes were detected in males and females ofL. sericata(330.4 and 158.93 μg g−1of the insect body, respectively). The quantities of total cuticular alcohols in larvae and pupae were smaller (31.46 μg g−1and 42.08 μg g−1, respectively). The internal n-alkane contents of larvae, pupae, and male and female imagines were significantly higher than the cuticular n-alkane contents (153.53, 99.60, 360.06 and 838.76 μg g−1of the insect body, respectively).
Disentangling the causal inter-relationship between negative life events and depressive symptoms in women: a longitudinal twin study
Authors: Wichers M. , Maes H. H. , Jacobs N. , Derom C. , Thiery E. , Kendler K. S.
Published: January 2012

Background

Negative life events are strongly associated with the development of depression. However, the etiologic relationship between life events and depression is complex. Evidence suggests that life events can cause depression, and depression increases the risk for life events. Additionally, third factors influencing both phenotypes may be involved. In this work we sought to disentangle these relationships using a genetically informative longitudinal design.

Method

Adult female twins (n=536, including 281 twin pairs) were followed up for measurements of negative life event exposure and depressive symptoms. Four follow-ups were completed, each approximately 3 months apart. Model fitting was carried out using the Mx program.

Results

The best-fitting model included causal paths from life events to depressive symptoms for genetic and shared environmental risk factors, whereas paths from depressive symptoms to life events were apparent for shared environmental factors. Shared latent influence on both phenotypes was found for individual-specific effects.

Conclusions

Life events and depressive symptoms have complex inter-relationships that differ across sources of variance. The results of the model, if replicated, indicate that reducing life event exposure would reduce depressive symptoms and that lowering depressive symptoms would decrease the occurrence of negative life events.
III.—On a Hoard of Bronze, Iron, and other Objects found in Belbury Camp, Dorset
Authors: Cunnington Edward
Published: January 2012

I have the honour of exhibiting to the Society of Antiquaries, through Mr. Joshua James Foster, of Dorchester, some objects of bronze, iron, glass, and earthenware lately found together in Belbury Camp, near Higher Lychett, Poole, Dorset.
VI.—On a List of the Royal Navy in 1660
Authors: Perceval Charles Spencer
Published: January 2012

I am enabled, through the kindness of Mr. Henry B. Hull, of Nether Compton, Dorset, to exhibit to the Society a small manuscript volume, 6½ inches high by 3½ inches broad, bound in red morocco, and lettered on one side in blind tooling, Eduardus Dering, with the words Mercator Regius, superposed upside down in gilt letters. On the other side the process is reversed, the blind tooling being applied to the words Mercator Regius, while the superposed and inverted gilt lettering forms the name of Eduardus Dering. The manuscript bears the date 1660, and begins with “A List of His MatsNavie Royall, with their Dimensions, Number of Men, and Gunns,” &c.
VII.—The Church of St. Augustine, Hedon, Yorkshire
Authors: Street George Edmund
Published: January 2012

In venturing to lay before the Society of Antiquaries some notes on the architectural features of the church of Saint Augustine, at Hedon, near Hull, I have taken it for granted that I should be excused if I did not try at the same time to go into the archæological history of the town or churches; what is here expected from an architect being, I presume, that he should prepare a simple architectural description of the various parts of the building, such as might be given without any knowledge at all of the men who built it, or of any documentary evidence as to the dates at which they built. The truth is that we architects have not often the leisure necessary for the investigation of this part of the subject, and in this case I doubt whether if I had leisure I could have learnt much beyond what is told by Mr. Poulson in his carefulHistory of Holdernesse.
XX.—On the Coptic Churches of Old Cairo
Authors: Middleton John Henry
Published: January 2012

The site of El-Fustât, or Old Cairo, lies about a mile and a half from the modern city, on the plain between the Nile and the Mokattam hills.

With the exception of the Coptic churches and monasteries little of it now remains, and its site is covered by great heaps of rubbish full of fragments of pottery of various dates.

The Coptic churches are grouped together in “dayrs,” or inclosures surrounded by high walls, into which there is only one small entrance; these walls were to protect the Copts from the attacks of the Moslem population.
V.—Note sur les Fouilles exécutées à la Madeleine de Bernay (Normandie) en Fevrier 1858
Authors: Cochet L'Abbé
Published: January 2012

Au mois de Fevrier 1858 M. Metayer, de Bernay (Eure), a fait dans l'ancienne léproserie de cette ville une fouille qui procure une page nouvelle à l'histoire de la sépulture chrétienne du moyen-âge. Cette léproserie, peu eloignée de la ville, est aujourd'hui une ferme connue sous le nom de la Madeleine, dernière trace de l'ancien vocable de cet établissement hospitalier.
XI.—Observations on the Ancient Domestic Architecture of Ireland: in a Letter addressed to the Earl Stanhope, President
Authors: Parker John Henry
Published: January 2012

Perhaps no country in the world possesses so complete a series, as Ireland, of Domestic Architecture, in the full meaning of the words, that is, of human habitations; it begins with the underground abodes and the beehive houses of the earliest inhabitants of the island (belonging to the same period as the Cromlechs and Cairns), and is continued almost without interruption to our own day. But, before any attempt is made to describe or to classify the existing remains of human dwellings in Ireland, it is necessary to call attention particularly to the geological formation of the country. The nature of the building materials, as is well known, exercises great influence everywhere upon the architectural character, but nowhere else is this so evident and distinct as in Ireland. With a few rare exceptions, such as unfortunately are Dublin and Belfast, and their immediate neighbourhoods, stone is every where abundant, and generally of the same quality, extremely hard and durable, but very- difficult to cut or work in any way. A very large part of Ireland is an immense limestone plain, covered indeed in many places with extensive peat-bogs, but these are seldom very deep; in general the stone is very near the surface, and in many places it crops out. This limestone when broken up, and especially when burnt into lime and mixed with the peat, makes a very fertile soil. In many districts, especially in Galway, the surface is so much covered with loose stones of large size, that they have to be removed before the soil can be cultivated.
XV. On Recent Excavations at Carthage, and the Antiquities discovered there by the Rev. Nathan Davis
Authors: Franks Augustus Wollaston
Published: January 2012

Among the various sites memorable from the greatness of the cities which once occupied them, there are few that equal in interest or surpass in historical associations that of Carthage. The myths respecting the foundation of that city, and the fate of its unhappy queen Dido, have received from the creative fancy of the poet such a semblance of truth as to make them assume a place in our recollections with the actual events of history. The extraordinary rise of Carthage and its equally extraordinary fall, the utter destruction of its records, the obscurity in which its language and art are enveloped, all concur to excite in us an interest and a curiosity in regard to everything connected with it, which is hardly awakened by the history, real or fabulous, of any other city of Pagan antiquity.
XXIII. Journal of the Mission of Queen Isabella to the Court of France, and of her long residence in that country
Authors: Hunter Joseph
Published: January 2012

The year 1325 is memorable in the history both of England and Prance as a time when very difficult negotiations were going on, and when the Queen-Consort of England undertook the office of mediator between her husband, the King of England, and the King of France, her brother.
XXIV.—Sépultures Chrétiennes de la période Anglo-Normande, trouvées à, Bouteilles, près Dieppe, en 1855
Authors: Cochet L'Abbé
Published: January 2012

Du 20 Avril au 16 Mai 1855, j'ai exploré une partie du cimetière abandonné de l'ancienne paroisse de Bouteilles, supprimée en 1791, et dont l'église a été démolie en 1806. Le motif de cette recherche était le désir de recueillir et d'étudier des cercueils de pierre et des croix de plomb avec formule d'absolution, genre d'antiquites que l'on avait rencontrées en 1842, lors de la confection du chemin de grande communication No. 1, de Dieppe à Neufchatel. J'ai été assez heureux pour y trouver les objets que je cherchais.
XXIX. Notes on Bronze Weapons found on Arreton Down, Isle of Wight. By Augustus W. Franks, Esq., F.S.A. In a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S, Director
Authors: Franks Augustus W.
Published: January 2012

The antiquities which I wish to submit to the consideration of the Society have been brought under their notice on a former occasion; still, as a hundred and twenty years have since elapsed, it will scarcely be necessary for me to apologise for reverting to them again.
XXXV. On the Abbot of Waltham's House, in the parish of Saint Mary-at-Hill, London. In a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis
Authors: Corner G. R.
Published: January 2012

It is remarkable that Stowe makes no mention of the Abbot of Waltham's House at St. Mary-at-Hill, although the industrious London historian lived hard by, in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft; and the only printed notice of it that I am aware of is in Malcolm's Londinium Redivivum, vol. iv. pp. 417, 420, where it is stated that the parish purchased the abbot of Waltham's kitchen, and erected the south aisle of the parish church on the site thereof in the year 1501.
XXXVII. The Old Tapestry in St. Mary's Hall at Coventry
Authors: Scharf George
Published: January 2012

I beg to call attention to a very interesting monument still preserved at Coventry. It consists of a large piece of Tapestry, 30 feet long by 10 feet high, wrought at the close of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century, and affording a singularly perfect example of the arts of design and weaving at that period. I am not aware that we possess many examples of tapestry before the sixteenth century; but specimens after the establishment of a manufactory at Mortlake, under Sir Francis Crane, seem to have become very numerous, chiefly, however, of Scripture-historical and allegorical compositions. The greater part of these are of the French school; although, in accordance with the wish of King Charles I., several sets of tapestries from Raphael's Cartoons, which are now at Hampton Court, were executed at that manufactory.
XXXVIII.—On Horse-trappings found at Westhall. In a Letter from Henry Harrod, Esq., F.S.A., to J. Y. Akerman, Esq., Secretary
Authors: Harrod Henry
Published: January 2012

I had the honour of exhibiting, at a Meeting in May last, a collection of remarkable antiquities which had been shortly before found in Suffolk.

A farmer at Westhall (a small village about three miles north-east of Halesworth) was engaged in draining a field, called the “Millpost Field,” carrying the trenches to a depth of between two and three feet from the surface, in a stiff clayey soil, and in the direction of a small watercourse which ran along the east side of the field. A space of about two acres in extent, in the lowest part of the field adjoining the watercourse, presented, when ploughed up, a much darker soil than the other parts of it; and in making his drains through this part of the field much burnt earth and fragments of pottery were thrown out of the trenches. Near the centre of the space, and about two feet from the surface, he met with a quantity of bronze rings and other fragments, which he gave to a Mr. Hylton, a Norfolk farmer, who communicated the discovery to me, and enabled me to exhibit them to the Society: and in order that every possible information might be obtained, I joined them, on the 2nd of May, and carefully went over the ground with the spade. All the bronze fragments had been gathered together, and my search added nothing to the collection.
I.—Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum, III, and IV
Authors: Evans Arthur John
Published: January 2012

Hitherto we have been concerned with the Dalmatian coast-cities and the great parallel lines of road that traversed the length of the Province from the borders of Pannonia and Italy to those of Epirus. From Salonæ there were, in addition to these highways to the North and South, at least two main-lines of Roman Way that traversed the interior ranges of the Dinaric Alps and led to the Mœsian and Dardanian borders that lay to the East and South-East. Milliary columns have been found at Salonæ, one recording the completion by Tiberius' Legate Dolabella of a line of road leading from the Colony of Salonæ to a mountain stronghold of the Ditiones—an Illyrian clan probably inhabiting what is now the North-East region of Bosnia; another, also of Tiberius' time, referring to the construction of a line, 156 miles in extent, from Salonæ to aCastellumof the Dæsitiates, an Illyrian clan belonging to theConventusor administrative district of Narona, and whose stronghold, according to the mileage given, must be sought somewhere on the Upper Drina, towards the Moesian and Dalmatian confines. This latter line may very well be that represented in theTabula Peutingerianaas leading from Salonæ to Argentaria, a name which seems to connect itself with the silver-bearing ranges lying on the uncertain boundary of the ancient Dalmatia and Dardania, and which, from its mineral riches, was still known in the Middle Ages asMonte Argentaro.
III.—Remarks on the Authenticity of the Paston Letters
Authors: Almack Richard
Published: January 2012

The authenticity of the Paston Letters having been seriously impugned, it is a duty to give any explanation on so important a question. I would, therefore, beg to state some circumstances which happen to be particularly within my own knowledge.
VI.—Review of the evidence respecting the conduct of King James I. in the case of Sir Thomas Overbury: by James Spedding, Esq. M.A. in a letter to C. Knight Watson, Esq. M.A. Secretary
Authors: Spedding James
Published: January 2012

The document which has recently been discovered by James More Molyneux, Esq. F.S.A. amongst the extensive collection of manuscripts at Loseley, containing a complete and authentic report of a message sent by King James I. to the Earl of Somerset on the 29th of December, 1615, is a valuable addition to the four letters printed in the Archæologia, nearly fifty years ago, from the autographs in the same collection. Those letters were written to Sir George More, between the 9th and 24th of May, 1616, just before the trial; and there is another at Lambeth (not an autograph, but I suppose a true copy) addressed to Somerset himself in the preceding October, just before the committal. This new document gives us conclusive evidence as to the relation in which the King stood towards him in the middle stage of the proceedings, about half-way between those dates; and makes the history of it so clear and complete that no room is left for any further doubt about it. It appears therefore to be a fit occasion for collecting and reviewing the whole of the evidence bearing upon that point, of which we have now a great deal, when all is brought properly together; and of a kind too which is entitled not only to consideration but to precedence, as being better evidence than those who first told the story had access to, and such as they would themselves have preferred if they had had it.
IX.—On certain Letters of Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar, giving an account of the affair of the Earl of Somerset, with Remarks on the career of Somerset as a public man. By Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Esq., in a Letter to C. Knight Watson, Esq., M.A., Secretary
Authors: Gardiner S. R.
Published: January 2012

I have the honour to lay hefore the Society of Antiquaries copies and translations of some original documents from the archives of Simancas and Venice, relating to the passage of English history which formed the subject of a communication from Mr. Spedding on the 1st of March of the present year, and in doing so I can only regret that they were not before Mr. Spedding at the time when he was drawing up his Paper. In that case they would not merely have been in the hands of one who was most capable of making the best use of them, but they would have fallen into their natural place in the narrative which he prepared. He would have found in them the strongest confirmation of many of his arguments; but, amongst the new facts which would have thus been at his service, he would not have encountered one to necessitate the withdrawal or even the modification of a single statement.
XIII.—On the Day of Caesar's Landing in Britain
Authors: Stanhope Earl
Published: January 2012

It will be in the recollection of the Society that on the appearance of the first volume of the “History of Caesar ” by the Emperor Napoleon, the Council took occasion to express to His Imperial Majesty their high esteem for the learning and ability and the power of antiquarian investigation which that work displays. The wish, which at the same time they took the liberty of stating, that we might be allowed the honor of adding His Majesty's name to our list of Fellows, received a gracious response, and we have now, as you are aware, the great gratification to see the Sovereign of France enrolled among us as a Royal Fellow.
XVIII.—Some account of an Unpublished Collection of Songs and Ballads by King Henry VIII. and his Contemporaries
Authors: Chappell William
Published: January 2012

A Manuscript volume of songs, ballads, and instrumental music, which once belonged to Henry VIII, has recently been brought to light, and it is of interest, not merely for restoring a large number of songs of which no other copies are now known, but also because some among them were written by the King himself, within the first three or four years of his reign. Henry was then so much subject of his own songs, that these are of material assistance in forming a judgment of his early character.
XXI.—An Account of Researches in an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Stowting, in Kent, during the Autumn of 1866
Authors: Brent John
Published: January 2012

The “Old English,” or Anglo-Saxon, Cemetery at Stowting had not, I believe, been systematically explored until the close of the year 1866; yet its existence was rendered probable by the discovery of antiquities about twenty-two years since, when the road abutting on the ground was lowered by the parish authorities.
XXI.—On an Inventory of the Household Goods of Sir Thomas Ramsey, Lord Mayor of London 1577
Authors: Fairholt F. W.
Published: January 2012

The value of Wills and Inventories as exponents of the domestic lives of our ancestors cannot be too highly estimated. To them we must look as to the most fertile sources from whence a knowledge is to be obtained of that curious unwritten history, the history of the people. The glimpses they afford of domestic manners are all the more precious, because of their rarity elsewhere.
XXVI.—Observations on some Documents relating to Magic in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Authors: Hart W. H.
Published: January 2012

A good deal of attention has been bestowed on the crystal balls supposed to possess magical powers, and in which visions of the unseen world might be revealed to those who had sufficient faith in the powers of these wonderful mirrors. I do not propose entering into any discussion on the merits of these crystals; but I will with your permission lay before you, from among the State Papers of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, some curious documents bearing upon alchemy, magical glasses, and magic in general.
XXVIII.—On the Excavations at Silchester
Authors: Joyce James Gerald
Published: January 2012

The Roman city known to us under the name of Silchester forms part of a large farm upon the Hampshire estates of his Grace the Duke of Wellington. The land was occupied till very lately by Mr. Barton, whose name is familiar to archæologists in connection with the place as having formed a small but interesting collection of coins and antiquities found within or around the walls. At Mr. Barton's death, in 1864, this collection was purchased by his Grace.
Notes on Edward Grimston, Esq. Ambassador to the Duchess of Burgundy
Authors: Franks A. W.
Published: January 2012

It may be of interest to the Society to collect together such notices as occur of Edward Grimston, the ambassador to the Duchess of Burgundy, and the person represented in the interesting portrait by Peter Christus.

By the kindness of the Earl of Verulam, I have been able to make use of various documents, apparently unpublished, which assist in throwing some light on the ambassador's history.
Observations on the Portrait of Edward Grimston, and other Portraits of the same period. By George Scharf, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to W. J. Thoms, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Scharf George
Published: January 2012

I have carefully examined the very interesting portrait of Edward Grimston which the Earl of Verulam has been good enough to send to our Society for examination. I am glad to hear that his Lordship intends to have the surface, both back and front, protected by glass.
XXXII.—On the Human Remains, and especially the Skulls, from the Rock-Tombs at Ghain Tiffiha and Tal Horr, and from other places in Malta
Authors: Thurnam John
Published: January 2012

The human remains from Tomb 1 at Ghain Tiffiha comprise the more important bones of two skeletons. They are generally well preserved, though very light and brittle, as would appear from the almost entire destruction of the animal matter. They are uniformly stained of a dark reddish-brown hue, and here and there incrusted with a tufaceous or stalagmitic deposit of the same colour. The bones from Tombs 2 and 3 are, on the contrary, of a pale or drab clay colour. The dark colour of the former is attributed by Captain Swann to the percolation through cracks in the limestone rock of water tinged with the highly-coloured soil with which many fissures in the upper limestone of Malta are filled. The Tombs 2 and 3, on the contrary, had become filled with clay from “Clay-bed No. 3,” and hence the difference.
XIX.—The City of Cumæ, and the recent Excavations there
Authors: Ashpitel Arthur
Published: January 2012

There is scarcely a district in the world endowed with such singular beauty, and possessing such deep points of interest, as that extending about ten or twelve miles westward from Naples. A sky of such brilliancy as only Italy can shew; a sea of colours like the transparent hues of the sapphire and emerald; mountains on land and mountainous islands rising from the sea twice and thrice the height of those in Wales, and crowned with snow for a third of the year. The air of extraordinary clearness and purity, and redolent with the odours of the myrtle, orange, and citron. The earth covered with rich crops of maize, the vine hanging in a cordage of festoons from tree to tree, huge groves of figs and olives twisted in every fantastic form, and interspersed with the feathery palm, forests of pine, leccio, and cypress, all form a scene of beauty difficult to describe. But how is the interest heightened when we reflect on the history of the spot! We are in the scene so exquisitely described by Virgil in the Æneid. Here are the Isles of the Sirens and of Circe, the Tomb of Misenus, the Grotto of the Sibyl, the mysterious River Cocytus, the Lake Avernus, and the Elysian Fields. Here, too, the great poet is supposed to have been interred. The heights are crowned with the remains of sumptuous villas, where Caesar, Crassus, Pompey, Lucullus, and Augustus feasted, and where Cicero penned his best philosophical works.
XXVI.—A View of the Ancient Limits of the Forest of Wychwood
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: January 2012

The attention of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries having been directed to the recent Act of Parliament for the disafforesting of the royal forest of Wychwood, it was deemed right that some account of its ancient and recently existing state should be placed on record: I accordingly proceeded in the autumn of the past year to make a personal survey of this well-known yet but little explored district,—a district which in old times extended, north and south, from the woody upland of Charlbury and Ditchley to the green meadows of Witney and Cogges; and east and west, from the stream known as the Glyme, near Woodstock, to the borders of Gloucestershire.
XVIII.—On a Lamp of “Persian Ware” made for the Mosque of Omar at Jerusalem in 1549 : preceded by some Remarks on the Pottery and Porcelain of Egypt, Persia, Damascus, &c
Authors: Fortnum C. Drury
Published: January 2012

In making the following crude and superficial observations on those varieties of pottery known among collectors and amateurs as “Persian ware,” my object is to call increased attention to the subject” by adding the few notes which a recent tour through Syria and Egypt, and to Constantinople, has enabled me to gather, and more particularly as an introduction to the notice of the Society of a piece of this ware, remarkable for its beauty, and interesting from its having been made for a mosque of world-wide renown, and also as bearing an inscription informing us of the date of its manufacture, thus giving sure evidence as to the period of the perfection of this very elegant variety of the potter's art.
I.—On some Buildings of the Romano-British Period discovered at Clanville, near Andover, and on a deposit of Pewter Vessels of the same period found at Appleshaw, Hants. With Appendixes
Authors: Engleheart G. H. , Read Charles H. , Gowland William
Published: January 2012

In the immediate neighbourhood of my house in the village of Appleshaw, on the north-western border of Hampshire, the sites are unusually close together of those dwellings of the Romano-British period which are, with a certain vagueness, termed Roman villas. Appleshaw is distant five miles north-west from Andover; one mile north of Andover two Roman roads intersect, the one running from Old Sarum north-easterly to Silchester, the other from Winchester north-westerly to Cirencester. At Finkley, close to the point of intersection, pottery and other Roman material has from time to time been unearthed, and the locality is one of those which have, by a somewhat unconvincing reference to the Antonine itinerary and to etymology, been identified with the unascertained site of Vindomis. Imagine these two roads at their crossing to stand like an upright capital X over the town of Andover, with that town in the lowest angle; my own nearer neighbourhood will lie in the western or left-hand angle. Three-quarters of a mile east of my house is the lately-examined site upon which I have to report particularly this evening. One mile north and a little west (all the distances mentioned are measured in radius from my house) is a villa on the Redenham estate, excavated some fifty years back by Sir John Pollen, the landowner. It appears that no plans were made and no record kept.
II.—On some recent Discoveries in the Abbey Church of St. Alban
Authors: Page William
Published: January 2012

When the churchyard on the north side of St. Alban's Abbey was being levelled and turfed last year I was, by the kind permission of the rector and churchwardens and of the Rev. G. H. P. Glossop, M.A. (senior curate, who had generously undertaken the work), enabled to make some excavations to obtain a ground plan of the parochial chapel or parish church of St. Andrew, which adjoined the north-west side of the abbey church. As to the use of such parochial chapels, which existed at so many of the Benedictine houses, I have referred in a paper on this chapel, which I read before the St. Alban's Archæological Society last summer. I may, however, say that the origin probably dates back to the time of the reformation of monastic rule in this country by Dunstan, Oswald, and others, when the inconvenience of the presence of the laity in the monastic churches was first felt. The additional constitutions of the Benedictine Order likewise tended to make the monasteries more exclusive, and disputes arose in consequence between the monks and the laity as to the use of the church, usually ending in a composition being made, under which most of these parochial chapels were built. The first we hear of St. Andrew's chapel is a little while after the dedication of the Norman church of St. Alban in 1115, when we find it was dedicated by Herbert de Losinga, bishop of Norwich. The position of this Norman chapel is not known, but it is evident that its existence was but short, for it was rebuilt and considerably enlarged, apparently at the end of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth century by abbots John de Cella and William of Trumpington.
III.—On a Grant of Arms under the Great Seal of Edward IV. to Louis de Bruges, seigneur de la Gruthuyse and earl of Winchester, 1472, with some remarks on the arms of English earldoms
Authors: Hope W. H. St. John
Published: January 2012

The document which I have the honour to exhibit to the Society is a grant of arms under letters patent of Edward IV. to a foreigner, Louis de Bruges, seigneur de la Gruthuyse, who was created earl of Winchester in 1472.
III.—On an Archaic Latin Inscription in the Faliscan Character
Authors: Garrucci Raffaele
Published: January 2012

The city which now bears the name of Santa Maria di Falleri—the ancient Falerii, Municipium Faliscum, and subsequently Colonia Faliscorum—has already supplied abundant material for two works which I published some time ago. I am now obliged to return to the same subject, for this city has furnished fresh bronze inscriptions, in archaic Latin, of no light importance to philology and history.
XVI.—Some Particulars relating to the History of the Abbey Church of Wymondham in Norfolk
Authors: Harrod Henry
Published: January 2012

A few years ago my attention was directed to the very interesting Church of Wymondham, Norfolk, and the remains of the abbey adjoining it, with the intention of adding a survey of it to the collection I had already made of Norfolk monastic ruins. Extensive excavations were necessary, and, these involving time and expense, the project was deferred, and will now probably never be carried out.
II. Notices of the Contemporaries and Successors of Holbein. Addressed to Augustus W. Franks, Esq. Director
Authors: Nichols John Gough
Published: January 2012

The Will of Hans Holbein, discovered by Mr. Black, and so successfully identified in your recent communication to the Society, is a piece of historical evidence of which it is scarcely possible to over-estimate the value. It has, in fact, material influence upon the whole history of Art in this country for some years after its date, upsetting and contradicting an incalculable number of hasty and injudicious assertions, and rendering necessary a fresh series of investigations, to be conducted upon safer premises and with more careful conclusions than those which have satisfied the biographers and connoisseurs of former days.
IV.—Account of some further Discoveries of Flint Implements in the Drift on the Continent and in England
Authors: Evans John
Published: January 2012

It is now nearly two years since I had the honour of communicating to this Society an account of the discovery of flint implements fashioned by the hand of man, in undisturbed beds of gravel, sand, and clay, both on the Continent and in England.
IX.—Report on further Researches in an Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Long Wittenham, Berkshire, in the Summer of 1860
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: January 2012

I beg leave to lay before the Society of Antiquaries a further report of my researches in the Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Long Wittenham, which were renewed in the summer and autumn of last year, with the kind co-operation of the Vicar, the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck. These researches terminated earlier than I anticipated, and the result appears to show that the cemetery did not extend beyond the limits of the plot of ground called “the Free Acre,” described in my former report. I may mention that I have since ascertained that this plot was formerly known as the “Town Furlong,” and that its enclosures were levelled and obliterated about sixty years since.
X. Original Letters to the Tremoille family, chiefly from Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia: communicated by Monsieur Paul Marchegay; together with remarks on the same by Augustus W. Franks, Esq., Director
Authors: Marchegay Paul , Franks Augustus W.
Published: January 2012

M. Paul Marchegay of Angers, ancien Archiviste du departement de Maine et Loire, has forwarded to the Society transcripts of some letters which he has found among the records of the Tremoille family, preserved at Serrant in Anjou.

They consist chiefly of twenty-one unpublished letters written by Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia, and three by the King of Bohemia, all addressed to various members of the Tremoille family. One letter, however, which is of an earlier date, relates only indirectly to Elizabeth, and should properly be considered before those written by the unfortunate daughter of James I. or her husband.
XVIII.—On Two Egyptian Tablets of the Ptolemaic Period
Authors: Birch Samuel
Published: January 2012

The tablets which form the subject of the following communication are two of the most remarkable of those of the Ptolemaic period, which is not rich in inscribed monuments of this kind. There is, indeed, a series of tablets of this period in the British Museum, and others are in the Louvre at Paris. None of them, however, surpass in interest those now to be described, which relate to the family of Pasherenptah. It will be seen from their contents that they shed great light on the mythology of the Ptolemaic period, add to our knowledge of the annals of the Lagidæ, and afford additional facts with regard to the functions and organisation of the Egyptian hierarchy.
XX.—Observations on four Illuminations representing the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, at Westminster, from a MS. of the time of King Henry VI.: in a Letter
Authors: Corner G. R.
Published: January 2012

By the kind permission of William Selby Lowndes, Esq., I have the pleasure of sending you four illuminations, on vellum, for inspection by the Society of Antiquaries. From the alphabetical table at the foot and back of one of them they seem to have belonged to a MS. law treatise of about the time of King Henry VI.; to which reign, from several points in the illuminations themselves, as well as from the character of the writing, I attribute the date of these interesting representations of the King's four superior courts at Westminster.
VII.—Original Documents illustrative of the Administration of the Criminal Law in the time of Edward I.
Authors: Nichols Francis Morgan
Published: January 2012

I propose to lay before the Society this evening some documents which appear to possess a certain interest as illustrating the administration of the Criminal Law in the reign of Edward I. One of these papers relates to the tribunal held under the presidency of the Justices of Trailbaston, the institution of which is one of the obscure events in our legal annals. I have written a few observations with a view to explain the nature of these papers, and their bearing upon the legal and social history of the country.
XIV.—History of Winterton, in the County of Lincoln, by Abraham de la Pryme; with an Introduction by Edward Peacock, Esq., F.S.A., the owner of the original Manuscript
Authors: Peacock Edward
Published: January 2012

The volume which I have the honour of exhibiting to the Society is the original manuscript of Abraham de la Pryme's History of Winterton, in the county of Lincoln. It consists of twenty-six small quarto leaves, one of which is blank; they are stitched together in a cover of marbled paper. Of its history I know little. It was given to me by my friend the late Venerable William Brocklehurst Stonehouse, Vicar of Owston and Archdeacon of Stow, the historian of the Isle of Axholme. He found it, about thirty years ago, in a cottage in one of the villages near Owston. There can be no doubt that the manuscript is the autograph of de la Pryme. The handwriting corresponds in every respect with that of other documents known to have been written by him.
IV.—Further Remarks on the Hill Forts of Sussex: being an Account of Excavations in the Forts at Cissbury and Highdown
Authors: Fox Augustus Henry Lane
Published: January 2012

In a paper which I had the honour of reading to this Society on the 6th February 1868 I gave a general description of the ancient earthworks of the downs between Beachy Head and Chichester, and I concluded by expressing an opinion, derived chiefly from a consideration of the principles of castrametation, outline, and other indications observable on the surface, that these intrenchments belonged to the Ancient British period, and were not, as some writers have supposed, the work of the Roman invaders of this country.
V.—Some Account of a Visitation of the Royal Chapel of St. George at Windsor, in 1552
Authors: Townsend George Fyler
Published: January 2012

It has often been the occasion of remark that out of the enormous mass of jewels, ornaments, and substantial church plate accumulated in almost illimitable profusion in the ancient religious houses of our land so few specimens have descended to modern times. This paper will deal with this subject, and will show the manner of the disappearance of these treasures. It will give a series of documents (hitherto inedited, but unique in their complete connection and fulness) relating to a Visitation conducted by the King's Commissioners in the Chapel of St. George, Windsor, and illustrating these three points: (a) the wealth of these religious foundations; (b) the manner in which that wealth (in respect to the valuable moveables) was dealt with by its proprietors during the progress of the Reformation; and (c) the ultimate fate of the jewels, plate, ornaments, and vessels of gold and silver. The various documents are somewhat lengthy, and contain some repetitions. It has, however, been deemed expedient to give them as they appear, for two reasons : first, as providing an example of the exact mode of conducting one of these ancient Visitations; and next, as exhibiting, in their curious variety of expression, the diversity of sentiment and feelings prevalent in those days.
XIX.—On the Testament of Sir Hugh de Nevill, written at Acre, 1267
Authors: Giuseppi M. S.
Published: January 2012

Original wills and testaments of the first three centuries immediately following the Norman Conquest exist only in instances of extreme rarity. In the muniment rooms of the various ecclesiastical courts examples earlier than the commencement of the fourteenth century appear almost unknown, although there is said to be at Lincoln a collection dating from the year 1283. Stray examples may here and there be found in such collections of early charters and deeds as those preserved at the Record Office, and it would seem that it is to the calendars of these now in course of publication that we must chiefly look for the possible discovery of any further examples.
IV.—Some Remarks upon the Book of Records and History of the Parish of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, in the City of London
Authors: Freshfield Edwin
Published: January 2012

The original object of the present communication was to present to the Fellows some account of a remarkable Book of Records preserved in the parish church of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, containing, among other interesting particulars, the original constitution under which the parish was governed.

As, however, some other of the parish books presented features of exceptional historical interest, I have taken leave to add, by way of illustration to the paper, some particulars relating to the parish and its inhabitants, gathered from its books.
VI.—On a Saxon Chapel at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
Authors: Middleton John Henry
Published: January 2012

Though the parish church of Deerhurst is well known to archæologists as being one of the most important existing examples of a pre-Norman building in England, yet it was not suspected till last September that the same parish contained another specimen of what it is convenient to call Saxon architecture, which, though small, is in some respects more perfect than the parish church.
VII.—Remarks on the fifteenth-century Diptych of the Chevalier Philip Hinckaert, Chastelain de Tervueren, in Brabant
Authors: Green Everard
Published: January 2012

The diptych I exhibit before our Society belongs to our Fellow Mr. Walter Metcalfe, who bought it some twenty years back at Phillipps's sale rooms in Bond Street. After hanging the diptych up in the hall of his house in the country, Mr. Metcalfe gave the picture to a parish church in Essex; but it was not admired, and a new organ, with smart pipes, was erected in front of it. Mr. Metcalfe, therefore, at my suggestion, asked to have the diptych returned to him. After some delay, and certain forms gone through, this request was complied with.