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Government greatly.’ Other advantages are the facilities which would doubtless 
be afforded by the New Guinea Government. It is fortunate for anthropological 
science that the affairs of the Possession are in the hands of so enlightened an 
administrator as Sir William MacGregor. Lastly, the cost would not be exces- 
sive. 
5. Interim Report on the Immediate Investigation of Oceanic Islands. 
See Reports, p. 487. 
6. On a Method of Determining the Value of Folk-lore as Ethnological 
Data, illustrated by Survivals of Fire-worship in the British Isles. 
By G. LAURENCE GoMME. 
Appendix to Ethnographical Survey Report.—See Reports, p. 626. 
7. Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada. 
See Reports, p. 569. 
8. The Coast Indians of British Columbia. By Professor E. ODLUM. 
9. The Growth of Agriculture i Greece and Italy, and its Influence 
on Early Civilisation. By Rev. G. Harrwett Jonss, M.A. 
10. Report on the North Dravidian and Kolarian Races of India. 
See Reports, p. 659. 
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 
The following Papers and Report were read :— 
1. Cyprus and the Trade Routes of S.E. Europe. 
By Joun L. Myrss, IZA., FSA. , 
Several considerations indicate that Cyprus may have been the first centre of 
copper-working in the Mediterranean, and that the knowledge of copper in Europe 
was probably derived hence, vid Asia Minor, Hissarlik and the Dardanelles, and 
the valley routes of the Hebros, Morawa and Danube. 
1. Copper is found abundantly and accessibly in Cyprus; but is not here asso- 
ciated with tin. Cyprus had in early times abundant supplies of timber, in fact 
all the necessaries for an extensive and easy manufacture. There is, however, no 
native copper, which corresponds with the fact that the early implements in Cyprus 
appear to be usually cast. 
2. The Copper Age in Cyprus seems to overlap the Stone Age of the Levant. 
3. The persistence of early types in Cyprus would be inexplicable if Cyprus 
had been importing implements from the more progressive areas of the Augean and 
the Danube basin. The late arrival in Cyprus of both tin and amber confirms this 
supposition. The view that copper implements are simply bronze weapons made 
during a scarcity of tin fails to account for the predominance of primitive types 
among the pure copper weapons. 
4, Cypriote types determine those of the neighbouring mainland, and of the 
