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frequent tint being the intermediate one knbwn As liazel. Two instances 

 were noticed of undoubted Cretans vnth fair hair and blue eyes of the 

 North European blond type : the brother of one of these blond men was 

 dark with dark eyes. These brothers, with their parents and grand- 

 parents, were inhabitants of Angathi (Palseokastro) . 



Up to the present time I find myself unable to adduce instances of 

 men reproducing in features and complexion the type represented on the 

 Knossos frescoes, but would suspend further comment till other districts 

 have been seen. 



Section (ii.) The school children. 



Seventy-nine boys and twenty-five girls were measured and examined : 

 the majority of the boys (fifty-nine) and all the girls were observed at Vori 

 (South Central Crete), province Pyrgiotissa ; the remaining boys at 

 Angathi (Pal?eokastro). It is very interesting to note that in respect of 

 head-form, and dealing only with boys (between whom alone comparison is 

 possible), exactly the same difference obtains between East Crete and 

 South Central Crete as in the case of the adult males, viz., in East Crete 

 the heads are brachycephalic. Hair colour is lighter than among the 

 adults, this being a common phenomenon in all European races ; dark 

 brown is the commonest eye colour among the children, not hazel as 

 among the adults. 



The comparatively poor physique of the children was very noticeable, 

 numerous instances occurring in which <a boy of fifteen years would have 

 passed as at least four years younger if supposed to be of British 

 parentage and of the better nourished class. Intellectually, however, no 

 inferiority seems to exist. 



Special JRpport (c). — On the Ancient Human Eemains in the Athenian Museums. 

 Section (i.) The National Museum. 



While no skeletons of such antiquity as those from Palivokastro were 

 seen, yet there are remains, more or less perfect, of several skeletons of 

 the Mycenaean epoch, notably those from the celebrated tombs discovered 

 by Schliemann at Mycentv. Unfortunately the earlier examination of 

 these skeletons was superficial only, and in the intervening period much 

 disintegration has ensued. The results of a careful examination are 

 therefore as follows : — 



From Graves Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (referred to in Schliemann's book as 

 Nos. ii., v., and iii. respectively) the fragments are too small to enable 

 one to make satisfactory measurements ; bones of domestic animals are 

 mingled with the human remains. 



From Grave No. 4 (Schliemann's No. iv.) there are the remains of the 

 shafts of a perfectly normal femur and tibia (with no marked platymeria 

 or platycnemia) ; also two short slender femora and two radii, these latter 

 and the femora being encircled with gold bands. With these are many 

 animal remains. 



From Grave No. 5 (Schliemann's No. i.) came the body which is 

 illustrated in Schliemann's classical work : it has now fallen into a most 

 fragmentary state. Other bones and fragments fill a large tray : they are 

 mixed with animal bones. A massive femur belonged to a tall well- 

 proportioned man of 1,759 mm. stature. 



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