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Prof. Petrie also described the site of the store city Raamses 

 built by the Israelites, and the discovery of the town and temple 

 built by the high priest Onias, who fled from Jerusalem to Eg-ypt 

 from the persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes about 150 B.C. 



British archaeology was, however, by no means neglected. 

 Miss Layard gave the results of her past year's work upon the 

 Palaeolithic site at Ipswich, and in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery 

 near the same place, and showed an extremely interesting 

 series of exhibits. Mr. T. Sheppard also contributed papers 

 and exhibits dealing with Anglo-Saxon and Roman finds 

 near South Cave* and South Ferriby respectivel}-. Dr. G. A. 

 Auden exhibited a splendid collection of pigmy flints from 

 North Lincolnshire and Yorkshire belonging to Rev. G. Scott 

 Gatty, and also a series of crania from York, and from 

 the excavations conducted by Dr. Thurman in Lamel Hill in 

 1847. This exhibition, together with a paper by Mr. J. 

 Mortimer dealing with measurements of bones from his 

 museum, served as a prelude to a most useful discussion upon 

 the physical characters of the early races of Britain, in which 

 Dr. Wright, Dr. Shrubshall, and Prof. Ridgway took part. 

 Other valuable papers were contributed by Miss Pesel upon the 

 evolution of design in Greek and Turkish embroider}- ; by Prof. 

 Ridgway, of Cambridge, upon the origin of the fiddle and 

 guitar ; and by Mr. J. L. Myers upon early human t3'pes in the 

 ^gean. Mention should also be made of the reports of the 

 several committees which have done such useful work in 

 connection with the Anthropological Section. The committee 

 for the exploration of the Lake Village at Glastonbury presented 

 a report of continued useful work, which is now nearing com- 

 pletion. The printed report of the committee for anthropometric 

 investigation gives an illustration of the male human adult 

 prepared by Prof. D. Cunningham (chairman) to mark the 

 points between which dimensions are to be measured, together 

 with provisional schedules and instructions for psychological 

 observations. The report of the committee for the investigation 

 of the age of stone circles, under the chairmanship of Mr. C. H. 

 Read, gave the results of excavations at the Stripple Stones, 

 E. Cornwall, which tend to prove that this circle, like that at 

 Arbor Low (Derbyshire), previously examined by the committee, 

 belonged to a period not earlier than the late neolithic time or 

 later than the early Bronze Age. 



* Printed in extenso in the Antiquary for September. 



1906 September 



