Shown in the Beaumont-May Gallery

Shown in the Beaumont-May Gallery of Hopkins Center is William Bright Jones '49 with two of the monumental brass rubbings from his collection which was on display there this winter. On the opening day of the exhibition, January 29, he gave a gallery talk.

The rubbings, many executed by Jones himself, are taken from the large brass plaques that mark the burial places of important personages beneath the floor of many an English church. Most of them date from the late medieval period (13th to 16th centuries).

The rubbings are produced by placing a thin sheet of paper over the brass relief and rubbing across the surface with a special cobbler's wax. Much of the finely engraved detail is captured this way. In this country there has been a growth of interest in similar rubbings, taken from the unusual carved gravestones in New England churchyards.

Jones is one of a half-dozen American members of the Monumental Brass Society, in which English membership numbers about 400. The society was founded at Oxford in 1887.