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and he pointed out that a better acquaintance with the geographical facts con- 
nected with them would probably be as trustworthy an indication of the various 
migrations of an uncivilised people who have no history as either their dialect 
or their physical development. Cornfield weeds are most important evidence 
for the original home of wheat and barley. There are many questions relating 
to domesticated animals that have as yet received no satisfactory answer. From 
whence came the domesticated sheep and goat? From whence the ass, the 
horse, and the camel? Notwithstanding the work of Rolleston and others we 
know hardly anything about the origin of the domesticated breeds of swine. 
And where was the ox first brought under domestication? These are some of 
the many questions that can only be answered satisfactorily by botanists and 
zoologists working in co-operation with anthropologists; the answers to them 
must necessarily throw considerable light on the early migrations of man. 
Tuesday, September 18. 
18. Prof. W. J. Sontas.—Miocene Man. 
The late Mr. A. Westlake, of Fordingbridge, Hants, spent six months in 
1905 digging out so-called eoliths from the Upper Miocene gravels of Aurignac. 
- He amassed a magnificent collection of some 4,000 or 5,000 specimens. 
During his life he entrusted a number of these to the author for description, 
who has subsequently had renewed facilities for continuing his investigation. 
The universal absence of incipient cones on the broken faces of the flints 
excludes any appeal to the action of torrents in explanation of their form, which 
resembles in a remarkable manner that of instruments made by design. 
Movements of the soil, accomplished under pressure, have in many cases pro- 
duced such remarkable simulacra of genuine implements that considerable hesita- 
tion may well be felt before arriving at conclusions hased solely on the form of 
supposed implements. 
In the present state of our knowledge it cannot be understood how the eoliths 
in question can have been formed by natural agencies. They seem to bear 
cogent evidence of design. 
19. Mr. Srantey Casson.—The North Aigean Coast in the Bronze 
Age. 
Little or nothing is yet known of this region in the periods preceding the 
Early Iron Age. In view of the probability of future excavation and research 
all available scraps of evidence are of interest. In the western half of this 
area, from the Haliacmon to the Strymon, a homogeneous culture with incised 
pottery belonging to the full Bronze Age has been revealed, partly by chance 
finds on tumuli and partly by the excavation of a stratified site near the Vardar 
valley. With the remains of this culture must be associated traces of Mycenan 
culture from the south which are found along the coast, and Mycenzan weapons 
imported into the interior. 
From the Strymon to the Maritsa are numerous traces of the Chalkolithic 
Moldavian culture, with painted pottery, but neither the Macedonian Bronze 
_ Age nor the Mycenzan period seems to be represented. Hast of the Maritsa 
ie the Moldavian nor the Macedonian cultures are represented, as far as 
is known. 
20. Mr. Sranuey Casson.—Prehistoric Sites in the Dardanelles and 
Bosporus. 
The recent identification of two prehistoric sites of the Neolithic or early 
Chalkolithic period, one at the western extremity of the Gallipoli peninsula, 
the other opposite Constantinople at Kadikeui, has made it possible to establish 
the extent of habitation and the interrelation of sites in the Straits. Troy I. 
and its companion sites in the Troad thus acquire a greater importance than 
has hitherto been attributed to them. The shores of the Straits except at 
these points seem to have been but sparsely inhabited. 
