inside and outside, and the sides slightly bevelled at the top. It was found in the neighbourhood of the ruins of a supposed broch at Symbister. (3) By LEWIS BILTON, W.S., F.S.A. Scot. Description of the City House of Amsterdam, with an explication of the Emblematical Figures, Painting, and Images, etc., which are within and without this glorious building. At Amsterdam. By Peter Mortier. With privilege. 1766. 1766. 12mo. 12mo. With four folding plates. (4) By the RYMOUR CLUB, Edinburgh, through Alan Reid, F.S.A. Scot., their Secretary. Miscellanea of the Rymour Club. Part I., 1906. members only. (5) By Miss AMY FRANCES YULE, Lady Associate. Printed for Tally-stick of the reign of Charles II., from the Treasury Records of Bombay. It is a split stem of a light, soft wood, which has been about an inch in diameter, but is now cut nearly square in section, the corners showing over an eighth of an inch of the silvery bark. At a distance of 2 inches from one end the squared stick has been cut obliquely across to a depth of a little more than half its thickness, and then split longitudinally all the way to the other end, which is pointed by two sharp cuts meeting each other obliquely in the middle. Counting from the point, there are ten nicks made on the side of the tally, which would also be marked on the corresponding half. Along the broadest edge is written :-Gubernator et Societas Mercatorum Negotiantium ad Indos Orientales pro Redditu per ipsos solubili in Anno pro Portu et Insula de Bomboij apud Indos predictos virtute Literarum Patentium sub magno Sigillo Anglie datarum xxvijmo Martij Anglia Anno nuper Caroli Secundi pro uno anno finito xxx die Septembris ultime preterito Michaelis xxiiij die Januarij Anno Jacobi Secundi iij. xxmo In a letter accompanying the donation, Miss Yule says:-"The tally-stick is stated to have formed part of the Treasury Records of Bombay in the reign of King Charles II., after his acquisition of that valuable dependency. It came into my possession in the following manner. In or about 1886, a few of these tallies turned up unexpectedly among the records at the India Office, and some of the then members Scale to lineaz. Fig. 2. Symbols on Stone at Advie, Strathspey. of Council who were interested in the find received permission each to take one. The tally-stick which I now present to the Museum fell to the share of my father, the late Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E. I am afraid that those not appropriated were destroyed, but am not certain." (6) By Rev. J. M. JOASS, LL.D., Golspie, Corr. Mem. S.A. Scot. Rubbing, with a reduced pen-and-ink Drawing (fig. 2), of a hitherto undescribed Sculptured Stone with symbols, now built into the vestry wall of the church at Advie, in Strathspey. The rubbing was sent to Dr Joass by W. Forsyth, Esq., M.D., of Bombay, who had observed the stone when on a visit to Advie. The history of the stone, so far as known to Rev. John Liddel, minister of the parish, is that it was believed to have been found in the old burial-ground of the parish near the river, and about a mile distant from the present church. It was at one time used as part of a lintel of a window in the old church, and after this was pulled down it was fixed in a wall to serve as a projecting stepping-stone. From this position Mr Liddel rescued it, and had it fixed for preservation in the vestry wall, where it now is. The stone is 3 feet in length by 1 foot 4 inches in greatest breadth, but is not complete, having been broken lengthways, as shown by the absence of the half of the crescent symbol on the right side. Dr Joass's drawing (fig. 2) gives a good idea of the incised symbols remaining on the broken stone, and he observes that the same two symbols occur in the same relation to each other (or nearly so) on a stone with four symbols at Inverury, Aberdeenshire, and on another stone at Mounie, in the same county, although in both these cases the symbols are less elaborately filled in. (7) By Rev. ALEXANDER MACKINTOSH, as executor of the late Rev. Allan M'Donald, Eriskay, South Uist. Bronze hilt and pommel of an iron double-edged Sword of the Viking time, iron Spear-head, and quadrangular Whetstone, dug up by the late Rev. Allan M'Donald, in the island of Eriskay, South Uist. [The sword-hilt is figured, and it and the other articles described, at p. 215, antea.] The following purchases acquired by the Purchase Committee for the Museum and Library during the session 30th November to 14th May, were exhibited : Two Celtic Brooches of Silver, found many years ago in the neighbour hood of Perth. These brooches were first exhibited to the Society by the late Mr Andrew Heiton, F.S.A. Scot., in whose possession they then were, in 1872, and are noticed in the Proceedings, vol. x. p. 27, but without detailed description or illustration. They were afterwards described with illustrations by Dr Joseph Anderson in the Proceedings, vol. xiv. p. 449. The smaller and finer of the two brooches (fig. 3) is of silver and penannular, the ends terminating in circular expansions. The penannular ring of the brooch is a flat band half an inch in width, ornamented by two rows of gilt bosses in a sunk panel. A raised band of semicylindrical form separates the two rows of bosses, and divides the panel into two equal parts longitudinally. The middle part of the ring of the brooch opposite to the penannular opening is occupied by an oblong panel with rounded ends, the flat bottom of which was originally covered by a gold plate ornamented with filigree work. This had been extracted and melted before the brooch came into Mr Heiton's possession. Towards the terminations of the penannular ring, where they join with the circular discs which form the expanded ends, there are half-oval panels similarly filled with gold plates ornamented with filigree work. From one of these half-oval panels the gold plate has been extracted and lost, but it remains in the other, and presents the figure of a serpentine creature twisted into a double figure of eight, formed by fine filigree work of beaded or notched gold-wire. The circular dises forming the penannular terminations have a chased border of S-shaped scrolls. On this border rest the heads of three dog-like animals placed with their muzzles projecting towards the centre of the disc and dividing the circular space into three sections. The centre of the disc is occupied by a setting of red glass fixed in a thin circular plate of gold three-quarters of an inch in diameter, ornamented with a figure of eight pattern in filigree work of beaded gold wire. Surrounding this central plate is a concentric circular border three-sixteenths of an inch wide, enclosed between raised margins of silver, and subdivided into three panels of equal length by the heads of the dog-like animals before mentioned, whose muzzles extend across |