MORE AS TO THE BARNACLE AND GOOSE 135 



duct of the barnacle. It is remarkable that the 



Mykenaean pottery-painter had observed the soft " fish " 



of the barnacle so minutely as to select this unpaired 



and very peculiar-looking structure, and represent it of 



exaggerated size attached in its proper 



position on the barnacle-like body of a 



goose. This very striking transference 



of a peculiar and characteristic organ 



of the barnacle to the body of the goose 



by the artist seems not to have been 



noticed by M. Houssay. 



M. Houssay further points out the 

 existence on some of the Mykenaean 

 pottery of drawings (see " L'Ossuaire 

 de Crete," by MM. Perrot and Chipiez) 

 of leaves attached to tree-like stems. 

 These leaves (Fig. 1 8, a, b, c) exhibit 

 the same markings (" venation ") which 

 we see on the bodies of the geese in 

 Fig. 16, especially the middle one of 

 the five. The leaves (or fruits ?) copied 

 by M. Houssay from the Mykenaean 

 pottery are attached in a series to a 

 stem — but no one, at present, has 

 suggested what plant it is which is 

 represented. The corners of the leaf 

 or fruit to the right and left of its 

 stalk are thrown into a spiral — and 

 the half leaf or half fruit represented in Fig. 18, b, 

 leads us on to that drawn in Fig. 1 8, c, in which the 

 spiral corner is slightly modified in curvature so as to 

 resemble the head and neck of the goose as drawn in 

 Fig. 16. Though Fig. 18, c, is as yet devoid of 

 legs or wing feathers (compare Fig. 16, d), the black 



Fig. 17. — Two draw- 

 ings on pottery of 

 modified geese, from 

 Ferret's "Ossuaire 

 de Crete." The three 

 lines above the back 

 of the upper figure 

 probably represent 

 the legs or cirri of 

 the barnacle, which 

 are represented by 

 two jointed append- 

 ages in the geese 

 shown in Fig. i6. 



