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select class of bards who had to conform to strict regulations and undergo 

 set tests. The development of the Welsh strict metres affords an interest- 

 ing study in literary craftsmanship of an extremely high order. In post- 

 Reformation times this love of craftsmanship found expression in (amongst 

 other things) the perfection of pulpit oratory and in the development of the 

 Eisteddfod as a venue for folk expression. 



Dr. A. H. Smith. — A survey of Yorkshire place-names. 



Wednesday, September 7. 



Mr. O. Davies. — Mining in Greece in pre-classical times. 



The paper makes an attempt to collect our knowledge on the sources of 

 gold, silver, copper, tin and iron in Greece in the Bronze and early Iron 

 Ages. It embodies a number of the author's own discoveries in this field on 

 Greek soil, and also investigates how far these metals at various dates were 

 imported from abroad. Some attempt is also made to discuss the method- 

 ology of the subject, particularly in regard to testing the source of ancient 

 specimens of copper by means of the impurities they contain. 



Mr. M. E. L. Mallowan. — The prehistoric civilisations of Nineveh. 

 British Museum Excavations, 1^31-32. 



During the season 1931-32 Dr. Campbell Thompson, Director of the 

 British Museum Expedition to Nineveh, financed by Sir Charles Hyde, 

 entrusted me with the task of making a prehistoric sondage of Quyunjik. 

 Mrs. Campbell Thompson and my wife assisted us in drawing the pottery. 



We dug down through no less than 92 ft. to virgin soil. Of the total 

 depth, 72 ft. represented the prehistoric period, an accumulation probably 

 greater than any yet dug in the Middle East. 



Our classification of the material comprises five distinct cultures : 

 Ninevite 1—5. 



Ninevite 5. — The latest culture ; wheel-made painted pottery, remark- 

 able incised pottery, Sumerian seal impressions, c. 3000 B.C. 



Ninevite 4. — Erech red slip ware, seal impressions of the Jemdet Nasr 

 period, c. 4000 B.C. 



Ninevite 3. — Infant burials in urns, grey burnished pottery, seal im- 

 pressions with exquisite animal drawings, earliest Ninevite examples of 

 metal. 



Ninevite 2. — Brilliant painted pottery in three colours on a burnished 

 slip. These show affinities with the early ware of Carchemish and Tall 

 Halaf, but the pottery from the latter site is probably a late stage of 

 a development not found at Nineveh. The earlier stages bore affinities to 

 the Samarra ware. 



Ninevite i . — Coarse plain and incised ware, cannot be placed much later 

 than 5000 B.C. 



SECTION I.— PHYSIOLOGY. 



No meetings of this Section were held, in view of the XlVth Inter- 

 national Physiological Congress at Rome. 



