Minutes of meeting, 6 March 1766
Reference code
SAL/02/010/024
Title
Minutes of meeting, 6 March 1766
Date
6/3/1766
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Item
Scope and content
The following Fellows were elected: Sir George Colebrooke, John Darker, William James.
Charles Lyttelton exhibits a stone hatchet found a few years ago near Spurnston in the Parish of St Cuthbert, Carlisle [lengthy discussion and conjectures about other finds in Europe].
Rev Nixon on the painting of the eyes based on a passage in a letter from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on the custom of Greek and Turkish ladies eye decoration [lengthy discussion].
Charles Lyttelton exhibits a stone hatchet found a few years ago near Spurnston in the Parish of St Cuthbert, Carlisle [lengthy discussion and conjectures about other finds in Europe].
Rev Nixon on the painting of the eyes based on a passage in a letter from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on the custom of Greek and Turkish ladies eye decoration [lengthy discussion].
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Society of Antiquaries of London
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