When I last had the honour of seeing you, and showing you the Etruscan ornaments found in the Prince of Canino's excavations, I undertook, with your permission, to send you some account of these excavations, and your Lordship was so good as to say it should be read to the Society of which you are President. As nothing that I can have to say on the subject can be so interesting as the Prince's own account of the discoveries, I have translated the note at the end of the Catalogue which he has printed. I now have the honour of sending you this translation, together with the original, and also a collection of fac-similes of the inscriptions on the vases described. Should the Society be disposed to have these fac-similes printed, I shall be happy to furnish a translation of the descriptions also, which, in that case, ought perhaps to accompany them.