264 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



The Age of Stone Circles. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. C. H. 

 Bead (Chairman), Mr. H. Balfour (Secretary), Lord Avebury, 

 Professor W. Ridgeway, Dr. J. G. Garson, Dr. A. J. Evans, 

 Dr. R. Munro, Professor Boyd Dawkins, and Mr. A. L. Lewis, 

 appointed to conduct Explorations with the Object of ascertaining 

 the Age of Stone Circles. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 



It was proposed to continue the excavations at Avebury Stone Circle 

 during 1910, with a view to supplementing the valuable evidence 

 obtained from the excavations of previous years, and for this purpose 

 a grant was applied for and allotted. It was subsequently found im- 

 possible to enlist the services of Mr. H. Gray for the conduct of 

 excavations this year, and it was decided that, as it was desirable that 

 the work of continuing the exploration should not be allowed to change 

 hands, the renewal of work on this important site should be postponed 

 until 1911. Mr. Gray is willing to continue the exploration of Avebury 

 Stone Circle under the direction of the Committee, but owing to other 

 engagements of a similar nature he was unable to obtain the necessary 

 additional leave of absence from the Somersetshire Archaeological 

 Society, and could not therefore act for the Committee this year. 

 Next year his services will again be available during the spring, and 

 the Committee would urge that the work should then be renewed. It 

 is desirable that as long a time as possible should be assigned to the 

 season's work, since the earthworks are on a very large scale, and the 

 amount of silting which must be moved before the bottom of the fosse 

 can be reached is very great indeed. The Committee ask to be allowed 

 to claim for next year the amount of the grant allotted for 1910, and 

 urge that a further grant of 501. be added to this amount in order that 

 the excavations may be renewed upon an adequate scale. 



Archaeological and Ethnological Investigations in Sardinia. — Report of 

 the Committee, consisting of Mr. D. G. Hogarth (Chairman), 

 Professor R. C. Bosanquet (Secretary), Drs. T. Ashby, W. L. H. 

 Duckworth, and F. C. Shrubsall, and Professor J. L. Myres. 



Dr. D. Mackenzie reports : ' This year's campaign in Sardinia was 

 attended by the singular good fortune that had favoured our ex- 

 plorations of former years. Six more dolmen tombs were added to 

 our list of four of last year, making ten monuments altogether of 

 inio kind which have been discovered by us. The significance of 

 this discovery may be realised from the fact that, previous to our 

 researches of last year and this, only one monument of this class 

 was known in Sardinia — that near Bironi, referred to by Montelius, 

 and since published by Taramelli. The general scientific result accord- 

 ingly is : that we can now say definitely not only that the great Tombs 



