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Vice-President, and Mrs. Baily received the members and their 
friends. 
Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., Vice-President, 
gave a lecture on ‘‘ Egyptian Art,” illustrated with lantern slides. 
There was, he said, a good deal of misapprehension with regard 
to what was real Egyptian Art. The best work was certainly that 
of the earliest periods ; but what was commonly shown as Egyptian 
Art was of much later date and was very inferior to the earlier 
work. The lecturer then pictured and described a large number 
of works of statuary, relief, painting, and jewellery, representing 
the period from about 4500 B.c., to the time of the eighteenth and 
nineteenth dynasties, three thousand years later. Some of the 
earliest examples were very fine in conception and execution, and, 
speaking generally, the later specimens showed a great deteriora- 
tion. And yet, said the lecturer, the latter were what were usually 
put before the public as Egyptian Art. They were really a travesty 
of the very worst period. 
After the lecture Dr. Reginald S. Clay gave a demonstration 
of the Optical Projection of Crystals by Polarized Light, and 
refreshments were served. A collection of scientific exhibits were 
on view. A programme of music was performed during the 
evening. 
Friday, December 3rd. Mr. P. E. Vizard, Vice-President, in the 
chair. 
Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., gave a 
lecture on ‘‘ John Richard Green at Oxford.” The lecturer 
said that in dealing with John Richard Green there was no need 
for him to say anything of the position he held as historian of 
the English people. He was the very first man in this country— 
and he (the lecturer) might almost say in Europe—who attempted 
to give the history of a nation from the point of view of the people. 
They all knew Green’s public work ; but few knew of John Richard 
Green in the making. About fifty years ago Green and he were 
at Oxford together, and for three years they lived on terms of 
the closest intimacy, from which began a lifelong friendship. From 
those years of intimacy he was able to become acquainted with 
_ the character and qualities of Green, and he treasured also numerous 
_ letters which Green wrote to him in his early days, and which 
even then made him realize what a man of worth and genius his 
_ friend was. Green gained a scholarship at Jesus College, Oxford, 
_ the Welsh College. When he (the lecturer) went to that college, 
