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civilisation in the thinness of their walls and the extent to which 

 the sutures are drawn out by the growth of the brain, as well as 

 by the badness of their grinders and the small size of their 

 canines. They probably were a small, dark race, and were in the 

 Bronze stage of civilisation. 



Among the remains sent for examination by Mr. Hogarth 

 from the Dictaean cave are the skulls of a goat and a hog, por- 

 tions of those of the fallow-deer, and the forehead with two horn- 

 cores of a domestic ox, for which Professor Dawkins proposes 

 the provisional name of Bos creticus, as it cannot be identified 

 with any species on record. This last has been cut away so as 

 to form a " bucranium " for attachment to the shrine. They 

 were found along with remains of sacrificial vessels. In addition 

 to the above, and in illustration of the splendour of the Mycenean 

 civilisation in the ^gean Sea, Professor Boyd Dawkins also 

 exhibited a series of photographs and facsimiles of two gold cups. 

 The cups more particularly illustrate the source from which the 

 makers of the frieze of the Parthenon derived their artistic 

 inspiration. In them may be seen the same kind of movement 

 and action in the hunting and taming of the wild oxen as may 

 be traced in the action of the horses in the frieze. There is 

 every reason to believe that the Mycenean civilisation was the 

 parent in the Mediterranean region of that which in the western 

 Mediterranean lived on under the name of Roman and in the 

 eastern under the name of Greek, Its influence was felt in 

 Europe as far north and west as the British Isles in the pre- 

 historic Iron Age, if not in the preceding Age of Bronze. 



Extraordinary General Meeting, June 3rd, 1902. 



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



The President was elected to the additional office of 

 Treasurer of the Society in the place of Mr. John Boyd. 



