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Minutes of meeting, 26 November 1767

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SAL/02/010/071
Title
Minutes of meeting, 26 November 1767
Date
26/11/1767
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Item
Scope and content
The following Fellows were proposed for election: Charles Howard, William Hunter.
The following Fellow was elected: George Henry Lee, Earl of Lichfield.
Gift of a drawing from Sir Edward Blackett of a stone found in the Roman Wall at Halston Chesters Northumberland.
Gift of a drawing of the head and trunk of a colossal Hercules purchased for Lyde Browne by Mr Jenkins from the Barbarini Palace.
Rev Dr Sharpe: gift from the author of A tour to the East in the years 1763 and 1764 with remarks on Constantinople and the Turks..., and of two volumes entitled Syntagma Dissertationem quas olim suctor doctissimus Thomas Hyde STP... [printed in Oxford 1767].
Charles Lyttelton on another rock inscription discovered at Shawk Quarries, Cumbria, and discussion of significance of Lucanus and Januaria in the inscription [with drawing].
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Society of Antiquaries of London
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