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calling the entrances of many archaic buildings in Greece. On one of 

 the blocks near this door I read the word Apre/xt, being an abbreviated 

 form of AprefXiSi, which we had found on one of the votive tablets in the 

 temple at Alki. The interior of the tower is almost entirely choked up 

 with fallen blocks from the surrounding wall, and the debris of later 

 habitations, but it seemed to me that a thorough excavation of this 

 tower might produce some valuable results respecting ancient systems of 

 fortification. 



Between this bay of Temonia and Alki there is another well-preserved 

 rectangular Hellenic tower and the ruins of another village. So we 

 find, within a very short distance, no less than two villages and one 

 town, all well protected, and all in former ages thriving on the quarrying 

 and export of marble, connected with an admirable road to one of the 

 great centres of Hellenic culture and progress, and affording us a highly 

 interesting study of a commercial centre, dating from centuries before 

 the Christian era, and bearing traces of having continued in prosperity 

 down well into the period of the Eastern Empire. 



Report of the Gorti'mittee, consisting of Professor Gr. Carey Foster, 

 Sir William Thomson, Professor Ayrton, Professor J. Perry, 

 Professor W. G. Adams, Lord Rayleigh, Dr. 0. J. Lodge, Dr. 

 John Hopkinson, Dr. A. Muirhead, Mr. W. H. Preece, Mr. 

 Herbert Taylor, Professor Everett, Professor Schuster, Dr. 

 J. A. Fleming, Professor G-. F. Fitzgerald, Mr. R. T. Gtlaze- 

 BROOK {Secretary), Professor Chrystal, Mr. H. Tomlinson, Pro- 

 fessor W. GrARNETT, Professor J. J. Thomson, Mr. W. N. Shaw, 

 and Mr. J. T. Bottomley, appointed for the purpose of con- 

 structing and issuing Practical Standards for use in Electrical 

 Measurements. 



The Committee report that the work of testing resistance coils has been 

 continued at the Cavendish Laboratory, and a table of the values found 

 for the various coils is given. 



Legal Ohms. 



