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Minutes of meeting, 10 November 1768

Reference code
SAL/02/010/097
Title
Minutes of meeting, 10 November 1768
Date
10/11/1768
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
The following Fellow was proposed for election: Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon.

Extracts from letters of Mr Bruce, late Algiers Consul, to his friend at Edinburgh [details of politics, geography etc].

The Earl of Exeter’s gift of two volumes from the late Giovanni Winckelmann, entitled Monumenti Antichi ... da Giovanni Winckelmann, Prefetto della Antichita di Roma.

William Norris on a letter from John Cleland, with a book in two parts, one on the attempt at the retrieval of the Celtic or Primitive language of Europe, and on Sanscrit [sic], the other a Celtic vocabulary.

Mr Hillier exhibits a string of beads supposed to have belonged to Pope Clement elected 1523, ob.25-9-1534 [detailed account] of subjects in the beads.
Creator
Society of Antiquaries of London
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