676 The American Naturalist, [July, 
urns and other objects which related exclusively to funeral and burial 
customs. That, said he, which M. Schliemann took for walls of 
defense or habitation were nothing but the surrounding walls of 
furnaces where incineration had been practiced. The tumulus of 
Troade, he contended, had the same origin as that of Hissarlik. Its 
civilization was, according to him, essentially Assyro-Babylonian, 
influenced in a large measure by the Phoenicians and by the Egyptians. 
About 1500 years B.C. the civilization of which Troy may have been 
the center extended over a part of Asia Minor and into Western 
Europe. It was destroyed by the Hellenes that substituted for it the 
classic civilization. Hissarlik, Mycene, ‘Tirynthe, Koban, and Hall- 
stadt are the principal stations of this now destroyed and disappeared 
civilization. Captain Boetticher enumerated his proofs, and insisted 
upon the analogy between the objects of Italy and those which had 
been gathered in Egypt, in Assyria, and in the north of Europe, and 
of which the destination, said he, was essentially votive and funeral. 
Dr. Schliemann rose, and, according to the official report made by the 
secretary, he was saluted by an ovation which was entirely exceptional 
in a scientific congress. Although a German, he spoke French with 
facility, and I may remark, English equally well, and he expressed 
himself with a vivacity which sometimes attained almost violence, in 
his interesting and excited reply to the attack of Boetticher. He 
commenced with a historic résumé of his excavations, of his first visit 
to Troad in 1868, He recalled the fact that, disdaining all traffic and 
commercial profit by the sale of the classic antiquities which he there 
discovered, he had given to the museums in his native country and 
others all the products of his research. He gave due credit to his aids 
and assistants, of whom stood in the first rank his wife, a French 
engineer, Adolphe Laurent, Emile Burnouf, director of the French 
School at Athens, Joseph Holfor, the architect, of Vienna, Dr. 
Virchow, and Dr. Doerpfeld. He acknowledged an international 
concert of praise of which any man, scientific or not, had just right 
to be proud. ‘The attacks of Boetticher had been responded to’ by 
Virchow and Doerpfeld. The latter offered his services to accompany 
Boetticher to Troy, and there take up the excavations, and M. Schlie- 
mann declared his willingness that the whole should be done at his 
expense. Dr. Schliemann then took up the details of the discussion. 
He declared that M. Boetticher made choice of exceptions out of an 
enormous series or mass of material, He replied to attack after attack 
with apparent satisfaction and success, He extended his remarks, and 
compared in detail the antiquities of Troy with those of Mycenz, of 
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