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XXVII. Extracts from the Minute Book of the Linnean Society

XXVII. Extracts from the Minute Book of the Linnean Society Get access Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Volume os-1, Issue 1, August 1791, Pages 255–257, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1791.tb00407.x Published: 09 April 2009

II. Observations on an Inscription at Spello, by F. Passarini, and Roger Gale, Esq.

The late earl of Colerane presented to the Society a collection of inscriptions given to him by Ferdinand Passarini, who transcribed them from stones found at Spello, the antient Hispellum, and illustrated them with short notes. The first and most considerable of them on a pedestal six palms high and four square, with a hole in the top, formerly standing near the amphitheatre, but at this time on the right hand of the door of the town-house, had been before incorrectly published by Fabretti. A fuller and more critical commentary upon the same inscription was afterwards drawn up by the late Roger Gale, esq; which, being read to the Society, was entered in their minute book, whence it is now published, together with the notes by the antiquary of Spello: