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of Graeco-Phoenician Age ( + 1000 B.C.—295 B.C.); and c. other antiquities 
of Hellenistic Age, and of later dates, down to the third century of our 
Era. A fuller account of the collection, with illustrations, will be given 
in an early number of the Bulletin, with notes on the specimens kindly 
supplied by Mr. J. L. Myres, Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. 
9. Neolithic Flint Implements from Egypt.—In the month of July 
the extensive and unique collection of Flint Implements made in November 
1896, in Egypt, by Mr. Heywood Seton-Karr (Atherton Grange, Wimble- 
don), was also purchased by the Committee. This collection, although it 
contains a few Paleolithic Flints, is of Neolithic Age, and was gathered on 
the high desert tablelands of Libya, in various quarries, distributed over 20 
miles of country, of whose existence all knowledge seems to have been 
lost, until Mr. Seton-Karr, following up information given him by Johnson 
Pasha and the Beduin, succeeded in discovering them. This collection 
also will be described, and the more remarkable and hitherto unknown 
forms figured, in the Bulletim at an early date. 
3. West African Masks. —These masks are cut out of solid soft 
wood, with the face coated with a layer of whiting, except the eyebrows 
which are black, and the lips which arered. An elaborately carved coiffure, 
coloured black, surmounts the face, and in two of the specimens, it is con- 
tinued under the chin. On the top of the masks are holes for the insertion 
of ornaments of flowers or feathers. They were attached to the wearer 
by grass cords, the perforations for which are visible behind. 

Fie. 1. Fig. 2. 
Fig. 1. (Presented by Mr. A. Ridyard) was obtained at Kopa, Sette 
Kama. Its dimensions are 124 inches high by 72 broad, the face 
measuring 8} by 6% inches. 
Fig. 2. (Presented by Mr. 8. Toby) came from the French Congo State. 
It measures 134 inches in height by 83 in breadth, the face being 7} by 
6% inches. The lips remain of the natural colour of the wood, 
