44^ Audoi : A)ifhropolooy at the British Association. 



gave some general conclusions which recent observation has 

 made possible. No undoubted palaeolithic remains have been 

 found, but a large number of neohthic sites have" been explored. 



A \ aluable contribution to the ' Early History of the Irish 

 Horse ' was made by Dr. R. F. Scharff. The available evidence 

 supports the view that the resemblance of the modern Conne- 

 mara pon\- and the Libyan race of horse is not entirely due to 

 human introduction of foreign stock, but to the fact that the wild 

 horse of Ireland possessed the same characteristics as the latter, 

 -and transmitted them to the existing ancient domestci breeds. 



Dr. T. Ashby's papers included an account of the explora- 

 tions at Cserwent from August 1907. The chief features 

 exposed were a large drain and the remains of private houses. 

 The examination of a rubbish pit yielded a rudely-carved 

 statuette of a female deity, probably British workmanship. 

 Irish Archaeology was represented by a group of papers, the 

 significance of which is evident from their titles : — Mr. G. Coffey 

 — ' The distribution of gold Lunulse ' ; ' The Survival of La 

 Tene Ornament in Penannular Celtic Brooches ' ; ' Note on 

 the Tara Brooch ' ; Mr. Armstrong's ' Leather Shield found in 

 Co. Longford,' ; Mr. Hewson's exhibit of a La Tene spear- 

 head ; and Mr. Orpen's contribution to the controversy con- 

 cerning the Origin of Irish Motes. The results of recent ex- 

 cavations in Greece were embodied in two papers, the first being 

 the report of the third season's work at the Sanctuary of 

 x\rtemis Orthia at Sparta. The remains of the primitive 

 temple, the earliest Dorian style, contemporary with the 

 archaic altar, were exposed. The suggestion that the so-called 

 Cyrenaic pottery is really Laconian has been fully confirmed. 

 Remarkably rich finds of late 6th or early 5th century terra 

 cotta masks, and the carved ivories, belonging to the periods 

 when the primitive building was still standing, have been made. 



In the second paper — ' Neolithic Culture in N. Greece,' 

 Mr. J. Droop brings forward evidence that the North of Greece 

 was still in the Stone Age during the development of the 

 Aegean bronze culture. 



' The Sculptured Stones of Norway,' by Dr. Haakon Sche- 

 telig, gives proof of the existence of direct communication 

 between Scotland and Western Norway about a.d. 700. The 

 smybols, such as the comb, the serpent, the group of four con- 

 centric circles, the crescent and the radiated sun-disc, frequently 

 occur on stones, both from Norway and Scotland. Prof. S. 



Naturalist. 



