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especially those of the province of Sitia (the country inhabited anciently 

 by the Eteo-Cretans). 



(c) On the ancient human remains in the Athenian museums. 



(d) On the physical characteristics of the modern Greeks. 



I then applied to the Committee of the British School at Athens for 

 admission as an Associate of the school, and a further application was 

 made to the Committee on my behalf for a sum of money in aid of the 

 work. The former application was granted, but the response to the latter 

 was coupled with conditions which I did not see ray way to accepting. 



I arrived in Athens on January 12, 1903, and was introduced by the 

 Director to Professor Stephanos, who, as Curator of the anthropological 

 collection in the Academy at Athens, was in a position to enable me to 

 enter on that portion of the work which dealt with the physical anthro- 

 pology of the ancient and modern inhabitants of Greece. As regards this, 

 Professor Stephanos at once stated definitely that he himself had abundant 

 materials in hand and on the point of publication for an exhaustive mono- 

 graph dealing both with ancient i-emains and modern inhabitants. 



I thus discovered that my time would be more profitably spent in 

 examining the material in the National Museum under the charge of 

 Mr. Stais. Thereupon I commenced work in that museum, examining 

 particularly the human remains from the shaft-graves at Mycena?, and 

 the skulls from the Theban monument on the battlefield of Cha^ronsea. 



A fortunate chance, for which I am indebted to Mr. Tod, of the British 

 School, enabled mc to measure a number of persons in the reformatory. 

 This, witli occasional visits to the collection of crania in Professor 

 Stephanos' charge, completed the work I was able to do in Athens. 



Arriving in Candia on February 28, 1903, I at once commenced work 

 in the museum on the crania brought from Paheokastro in 1902 by the 

 Director of the British School. This work, with measurements of the 

 whole of the police force of Candia, occupied me till it was possible to 

 proceed to Palteokastro, for which place I started on March 15, in company 

 with Mr. Dawkins, student of the scliool. Through the courtesy of 

 Professor Halbherr and his assistant. Dr. Paribeni, of the Italian mission, 

 I was able to measure a number of workmen at Vori, near Agia Triadha, 

 and also to measure men of the police force at Vori and Pyrgos. 

 Arriving at Palaeokastro on March 25, Avork was resumed on the mound 

 occupied by the ossuary partly excavated in 1902. This collection of 

 skeletons was completely cleared out in the next ten days, and work was 

 then commenced on a neighbouring hillside on a site known as Patema, 

 where preliminary excavations had revealed skulls in 1902. A week 

 sufficed to collect all the material from this site, which will be remarkable 

 for having furnished an example of the mode of interment practised, an 

 almost complete skeleton having been discovered in the contracted position 

 and on the left side. 



In the next place two days were spent in excavating rock-shelters near 

 Agios Nikolaos, after which work was resumed near the original ossuary 

 (near Roussolakkos, Palreokastro). There was then discovered a second 

 ossuary near the first, but of much smaller dimensions, and the whole of 

 this was completely excavated by the afternoon of April 11. 



Opportunities for measuring living Cretans had occurred both at the 

 excavations, also at Angathi and at Adrovasti, a village some eight miles 

 away. 



