1896.] Psychology. 853 
As it had been originally of finely veined agate, the stone-cutter’s saw 
had accidentally divided the object in such a way that the whitish vein 
of the stone appeared only upon the one fragment, and the larger gray 
surface upon the other. Thus I was able to explain Dr. Peters’ dis- 
cordant descriptions of the two fragments.” 
There are, says Mr. Newbold, two especial points of interest in this 
ease, the character of the information conveyed, and the dramatic form 
in which it was put. The apparently novel points of information given 
were: 
1. That the fragments belonged together. 
2. That they were fragments of a votive cylinder. 
3. That the cylinder was presented by King Kurigalzu. 
4, That it was dedicated to Ninib. 
5. That it had been made into a pair of earrings. 
6. That thet e chamber ” was located on the southeast side of 
the temple. 
We have a point de repère for the treasure chamber part of the 
dream, in the fact, that Dr. Peters, as far back as 1891, had told Pro- 
fessor Hilprecht of the discovery of a room in which were remnants of 
a wooden box, while the floor was strewn with fragments of agate and 
lapis lazuli The other points in the dream may be accounted for by 
the direction in which Professor Hilprecht’s thoughts had been travel- 
ling, or they may not; I must confess to thinking they cannot all be 
so accounted for.— ALICE Bopineron. 
Notr.—I would advise anyone interested in the subject of subcon- 
scious reasoning in dreams, to read at length the account given by 
William A. Lamberton, Professor of Greek in the University of Penn- 
sylvania, of a dream in which he solved geometrically a difficult problem 
which he had attacked from its algebraic and analytic side. The point 
de repère here seems to have been a blackboard which had formerly 
had a functional use in the room, but which had been painted over, the 
black still showing through the white paint. Professor Lamberton, on 
opening his eyes one morning, about a week after he had determined 
to banish this insolvable problem from his mind, saw upon this black- 
board surface a complete figure, containing not only the lines given by 
the problem, but alsoa number of auxiliary lines, and just such lines 
as without further thought solved the problem at once. 
“T sprang from bed,” says Prof. Lamberton, “and drew the figure 
on paper; needless to say, perhaps, that the geometrical solution being 
1 Two curious cases of the dramatic form taken occasionally by dreams will be 
found on p. 18, Proceedings S. P. R. for June, 1896. 
