May T^fh, igo2.] PROCEEDINGS. xlvii 



Ordinary Meeting, May 13th, 1902. 



Charles Bailey, M.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the tables. 



Amongst the recent accessions to the Society's Library were 

 the following : — " Nordiske Fortidsmitider" Hefte 4 (fol, Kjoben- 

 havn, 1902), presented by the Kgl. Nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab ; 

 and Whiteaves' " Catalogue of the Mari?ie Invertebrata of Eastern 

 Canada " (8vo., Ottawa, 1901), presented by the Geological 

 Survey of Canada. 



A paper on "The Luminous Organs in Pterygio- 

 teuthis margaritifera, a Mediterranean Cephalopod," by 

 Mr. W. E. HoYLE, M.A., was laid upon the table. 



Professor Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., brought before the Society 

 the collection of specimens discovered in 1901 in Crete by Mr. 

 Kogarth in the course of the exploration of the Mycenean 

 remains of that island, which is now being carried on with such 

 wonderful results. While Dr. Arthur Evans has been working 

 at the Palace of King Minos, Mr. Hogarth has been exploring 

 the habitations and tombs at Zakro, in addition to carrying out 

 the exploration begun by the former in the shrine of Zeus in the 

 Dictaean cave. These discoveries reveal the high character of 

 the civilisation in Crete in the INlycenean age. They prove that, 

 ranging backwards from 1,200 B.C. to at least 2,300 B.C., there 

 were stately palaces in Crete inhabited by rulers who adorned 

 their dwellings with frescoes and sculpture, who possessed the 

 art of writing in two sets of characters, and who worshipped the 

 Dictaean Zeus. From this Mycenean civilisation the Greeks 

 derived their art and, to a large extent, their religion. 



The skulls exhibited, which Professor Boyd Dawkins has 

 recently described in the Annual of the British School at Athens^ 

 1901, belong to the oval-headed, well-developed type termed 

 Mediterranean by Sergi, and closely allied to the Iberic type of 

 Spain and of Britain. They bear unmistakable marks of 



