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eluding Countless Stones, Kits Coty House, 

 several ruined examples in Addington 

 Park and Coldrum itself, furnish a val- 

 uable series illustrative of the constructive 

 skill of neolithic man.* Here, as well as 

 at Stoneheuge, Sai-sen stones were em- 

 ployed. In this connection may be men- 

 tioned Mr. H. Balfour's presentation of 

 'A Model of the Arbor Low Stone Circle.' 



Cretan and Egyptian areheologj' were 

 especially well represented; the former by- 

 Messrs. Arthur Evans, J. L. Myres and R. 

 C. Bosanquet, including Dr. W. L. H. 

 Duckworth's report on the prehistoric 

 human remains of Crete (being part of 

 his 'Report on Anthropological Work in 

 Athens and in Crete') ; the latter by 

 Messrs. Flinders Petrie, Garstang and C. 

 S. Myers. 



Mr. Evans had thought to complete his 

 excavations at Knossos this year. 'But the 

 excavations took a wliollj- unlooked for de- 

 velopment, productive of results of first- 

 rate importance' both as regards architec- 

 ture and general archeology, and calling 

 for 'supplementary researches of consider- 

 able and, indeed, at present, incalculable, 

 extent. ' 



Mr. John L. Myres 's paper: 'On a pre- 

 Mj'cenajan Sanctuary with Votive Terra 

 Cottas at Palieokastro, in Eastern Crete,' 

 was based on his excavations of April, 

 1903. The terra cottas were found in a 

 layer of blackened a.shy earth, the latter 

 covered by a layer of disturbed soil and of 

 rubble building of earlj' Myeena;an date. 

 The figurines are of 'men and women in 

 characteristic pre-lMycenaean costiuue anal- 

 ogous to that shown by the frescoes at 

 Knossos, and completed, in the case of the 

 women, by gigantic and very stylish hats; 



* The writer took photographs of this scries 

 just before the Southport meeting. Unfortu- 

 nately, the films were all destroyed in transit 

 (post), through being opened, pros\iinalily by 

 U. S, customs officials. 



a quite new feature.' There were other 

 figurines representing oxen, rams, goats, 

 pigs, dogs, weasels, hedgehogs, birds, chairs, 

 vases and other objects of daily use. 



'Exploration in the East of Crete' and 

 'An Early Purple-fishery,' both by ilr. R. 

 C. Bosanquet, Director of the British 

 School at Athens, completed the list of 

 papers on Cretan archeology. Leuke, a 

 small island off the southeast coast of 

 Crete, was an important fishing-station in 

 antiquity. An insci-iption of about 350 

 B.C. mentions the levying of tithes on the 

 catch of fish and of purple-shell. Messrs. 

 Bosanquet and C. T. Currelly explored the 

 island last Ma.y. They found, among the 

 sand-hills on the north shore, a bank of 

 shells, ''some whole, but mostly crushed, of 

 the variety Murex tninculus, which is 

 known to have been used in the manufac- 

 ture of the purple dye.' Fragments of 

 pottery and of a stratile bowl which marked 

 it as not only pre-Hellenic, but pre-Pho-- 

 nician, were scattered through the heap. 

 Further digging only a few yards away 

 uncovered characteristic Cretan vases of 

 the Kamares type and the foimdations of 

 a house. Enough evidence was obtained 

 to show that the "extraction of the purple 

 juice was practiced in Crete at least as 

 early as 1600 B.C. The Minoans of Crete, 

 and not the Phoenicians, were the probable 

 discoverers of 'Tyrian purple.' " 



'The Temples of Abydos' and 'The Be- 

 ginning of the Egyptian Kingdom' were 

 the subjects chosen by Professor "W. M, 

 Flinders Petrie, and made doubly interest- 

 ing by a long series of lantern views. 'Re- 

 cent Discoveries, Illustrating some Burial 

 Customs of the Egj^itians,' by Mr. John 

 Gar.stang, and 'Antiquities near Kharga in 

 the Great Oasis,' by Dr. C. S. Myers, were 

 also fully illustrated. 



Romano-British archeology came in for 

 a share of attention, ilr. T. Ashby, Jr., 

 reported on 'Excavations at Caerweni, 



