THE MOORISH EMPIRE IN SPAIN. 305 
THE ANTIQUITIES OF CORNWALL. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY REV. W. IAGO, B.A., F.S.A., 
President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. 
(Read 25th February, 1886.) 
ANCIENT animal remains. Traces of early inhabitants (native 
tribes and their invaders). Burial places, hut dwellings, fogous, 
crannoges, fortifications, theatres, roads, mines, coins, pottery, 
weapons, tools, ornaments, stone monuments, language, traditions, 
inscriptions. Cremation and various modes of burial. Early 
Christian teachers, crosses, manumissions of slaves. Ancient and 
medieval government, manuscripts, armorial bearings, slabs, brasses. 
Eeclesiastical, civil, and military buildings, &e. 
In treating of the above the following (inter alia) were 
included: Enquiry into the origin of phenomenal piles of rock, 
logan-stones, rock-basins, &c. The Giant’s Hedge, barrows, men- 
hirs, cromlechs, circles. Phoenician, Greek, British, and Roman 
remains. Celtic evidences. Urns, spindle-whorls, snake rings, gold 
torques. The Druids, the Hebrew image. Implements of horn, 
wood, stone, bronze, and iron. Result of search for cup markings, 
oghams, Roman and Anglo-Saxon legends. The sybstel. Religious 
establishments. Remains of Bishop Vivian at Bodmin. Relics, 
seals, plate, legendary and armorial stained glass, oak carvings, 
merchants’ marks, grotesque designs, &c. Preservation of ancient 
monuments, &c. 
THE MOORISH EMPIRE IN SPAIN. 
SYLLABUS OF PAPER BY R. H. MCCARTHY. 
(Read 4th March, 1886.) 
Tue rise and progress of Mahometanism. Condition of Spain 
when invaded by Saracens. Conquest of the Peninsula. Sketch 
of the history of the Moorish Empire in Spain. Gradual decline. 
Limited to province of Granada. Final subjugation by Ferdinand 
and Isabella. Persecution of the Moors. Their expulsion from 
Spain. The Spanish Arab civilization. Their eminence in litera- 
ture and science. Forward condition of commerce and agriculture. 
Causes of the decline of their empire. Their expulsion injurious 
to Spain. Was the Mahometan system of conquest cruel? Past 
failures of Christians and Mahometans to amalgamate. Efforts in 
that direction in India. 
