TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 935 
The earlier Ce/tic examples are mostly undecorated ; the Calf of Man crucifix 
is an unique, elaborately-carved specimen of the early ninth century. Celtic 
erosses are also found of the tenth and early eleventh centuries. 
The Scandinavian crosses are dated by style and inscriptions to the eleventh 
and following centuries. The style gradually becomes bolder, though it lacks 
accuracy, and later fails through over-elaboration. Celtic geometrical patterns 
and ‘tendril’ and ‘loop’ forms of ‘ twist’ are developed with much artistic skill, 
and the characteristic Scandinavian ‘ vertebral ’ motive is introduced. The absence 
of foliage, of panel arrangement, and of diagonal and spiral patterns, and the 
characteristic type of zoomorphism, are also derived from the Celtic prototypes. 
An analysis of Manx decorative art—Geometric, Zoomorphic, and Pictorial— 
indicates, as peculiar features: (1) the ‘tendril’ variety of ‘twist’; (2) the treat- 
ment of the head of the cross; (3) the representation of Pagan mythological 
scenes from the Norse Sagas, especially from the Volsungsaga. 
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. An Ethnological Storehouse. 
By Professor W. M. Fuinpers Perris, D.C.L. 
MermoRsNDUM ON PRoPosED REPOSITORY FOR PRESERVING ANTHROPOLOGICAL 
oR oTHER Oxsects. (Drawn up by Professor FLrInDERS PETRIE, for the 
use of a Committee of the Council.) 
NecEsstty.—The impossibility of preserving more than a small portion of the 
material for anthropology in the very limited area of London or town museums 
leaves only the alternatives of—(1) the destruction of materials which can never 
be replaced, illustrating modern races that are fast disappearing, and ancient races 
as revealed by excavation; or (2) the storing of such materials accessibly in a 
locality and a manner which shall yield the greatest possible storage space for a 
given expenditure. 
Scopr.—Such a repository might be solely anthropological, including an example 
of every variety of object of human work of all ages. Or it might be extended to 
zoology, mineralogy, geology, &c. Here we only consider the human side. 
The minimum use of such a place would be only to store the surplus objects 
which cannot find place in existing museums. 
The maximum development of it would be to form a systematic scientific 
collection of man’s works, ancient and modern, reserving to existing museums such 
objects as illustrate the subject best to the general public, and such as need the 
protection due to their market value. All such exhibition objects could be 
properly replaced in the repository collection by photographs. 
If fully developed such a repository would become a centre for study and 
higher education; a reference library would then be needed; but the value of 
land would be so enhanced that further expenditure would be covered by rents 
of adjacent ground. 
Form.—tThe conditions of such a repository are so wholly different from 
those of existing museums that the proportions of expenditure are entirely 
changed. The essential and primary condition is that space shall be of minimum 
value ; and therefore wages and the cost of moving objects and arranging them 
will be a far larger item in proportion. It is therefore needful that changes shall 
not be necessitated by any amount of expansion. 
The type of structure must therefore be along gallery, with lateral expan- 
sions to be built as any section increases. ‘The galleries must be sufficiently apart 
to allow of any likely increase, irregularly distributed. 
The type of gallery which would seem most economical would be about 54 
