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Page 421 - I attempted to apply the principles of "evolution" and "natural selection" to numismatic inquiries; and, when, ten years afterwards, Darwin's great work on the origin of species was published, I found that I had been approaching the study of barbaric art on much the same lines.' Again it was the degeneration of wavy-ledge handles on pottery buried with the dead, from functional elements into mere decorative squiggles, that suggested to Flinders Petrie the possibility of devising a system of Sequence...
Page 555 - The name of this conspicuous work is Kimble Castle. The tradition concerning it, is, that it was the Hold of Cunobeline, or Cymbeline, a British King, and that an action was fought in this neighbourhood between the sons of the British Chieftain and the Roman General, Aulus Plautius, in which one of the British Princes named Togodumnus, was slain. The facts that the ancient name of Kimble is Cynebel, or Cunobel — that there are funeral Barrows near the spot — and that history attests that such...
Page 407 - żi. is 1864 History of the Violin and other Instruments played on with a Bow, from the Earliest Times to the Present, also an Account of the Principal Makers, English and Foreign. By WILLIAM SANDYS, Esq., FSA, and SIMON ANDREW...
Page 591 - SI-OS in two lines in a sort of compartment across a 'wreath of rectangular leaves running in opposite directions from the centre of the coin...
Page 544 - ... burns, the oil falls into the pot below. It is therefore an empyreumatic oil, and is fit only for the lamp of the poor. The seed here is never eaten. Plants used for rearing Insects. — In the division towards the north-west is reared a little ricinus for feeding the worm, that spins a coarse silk. I have nothing to add to what I have already said concerning this subject. In the ruins of the suburbs of Gaur, about 1000 Jujub trees (Bayer) are employed to rear the lac insect. I have not given...
Page 424 - I am doubtful whether I have not been somewhat too exclusive in regarding the Macedonian stater as the sole progenitor of the race of British gold coins. On some of the Gaulish gold pieces we find traces of a derivation from coins of other countries than Macedonia.
Page 421 - On the Morphology of Coin-Types." The subject had been first approached by the President in his Coinage of the Ancient Britons," and subsequently enlarged upon, in reference to the same class of coins, in a lecture delivered by him before the Royal Institution " On the Coinage of the Ancient Britons and Natural Selection.
Page 493 - Iceni, the kingly power was abrogated and that the state became the prey of two factions headed by Bericos and Antedrigus respectively...
Page 409 - FGS, PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES AND OF THE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY OF LONDON, CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCS, ETC., ETC., ETC.
Page 454 - Bemains of the laureate bust to the right, but a large radiated ornament in front of the wreath, which is composed of three corded lines.