X PREFACE. 



simply means, 'in my humble opinion it seems 

 so and so.' 



I should mention that a part of these pages 

 was discussed in the ' Babylonian and Oriental 

 Record,' and my thanks are due to the Director 

 of the Record, Prof. Terrien de Lacouperie, for 

 allowing me to make use of those discussions. 



I should also mention that a paper on the 

 ' Sacred Trees and Cone-fruit of the Assyrian 

 Monuments ' was read by me before the Assyrian 

 Section of the Ninth International Congress of 

 Orientalists, September, 1892. 



This volume is an enlargement of the whole 

 subject as well as a discussion of the outcomes 

 of the study of the Flora of the Monuments. 



