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the skulls of human remains discovered within the round towers 

 of Ulster is indeed a marvel of scientific research in craniology. 

 When new Chairs and Lectureships were established recently, 

 consequent on the formation of the Queen's University of Belfast, 

 the authorities wisely created one on classical archaeology and 

 ancient history, and to that new lectureship Mr. Frost, who had 

 studied under distinguished authorities in Egypt and the old 

 classical countries, was appointed, and it was he who was now to 

 address them. 



Mr. Frost said he did not intend to give anything like a 

 formal lecture, but rather to offer a running commentary on a 

 number of pictures, and in connection with these he had to 

 acknowledge the great services of Mr. Welch. Personally he 

 did not believe that the study of the past should be regarded or 

 treated as a dry specialisation, but should be used to illustrate 

 the legends and books we read about. In the same spirit, in 

 the matter of classical archaeology, he wished not to oust the 

 old grammatical training, but to reinforce it. He believed the 

 present assault that was being made on the old literary training 

 could best be met and repelled by bringing it more into touch 

 with modern research. He did not consider that any amount of 

 working through museums would or should take the place of the 

 study of the literature of the past, as the two methods were 

 simply different aspects of the same subject. In his remarks 

 that night he proposed to deal with Egypt at the time of the 

 Exodus and a little before — the period of the oppression — and 

 with the topography of Sinai. In his various expeditions on the 

 spot he did not go out with a pious end in view at all, but 

 simply for camel-driving, and that entailed a great deal of im- 

 piety. But Exodus and the Book of Numbers were recalled at 

 every turn, and, apart from the sacred record altogether, he felt 

 convinced on purely secular grounds the bulk of the books attri- 

 buted to Moses must have been written by him. He said that 

 at the outset, as he desired to leave the religious question out 

 altogether, and to treat his subject from an exclusively secular 



