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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of the sally ports of a high elliptical corbel vault, but belowit had colossal posts surmounted by two or three stones which gradu-ally projected and inclosed the elliptical curve. AA^iile at the southgate (pi. 3) both posts are decorated with large lions on the out-side, at the east gate (pi. 10) only the inside of the left post bearsa sculpture, probably representing a young warrior in life size, who,like an Egyptian king, is clad only with apron and helmet, standingin the usual posture—the left hand balled, while in the right he holdsa magnificent battle-ax. Unfortunately, there is no inscription at-tached to the figure, though it doubtless represents a Hittite king,either Subbiluliuma or Hattusil, or some other one who might haveerected the walls and gates of Chatti. This royal figure and the lionsat the east gate are, from an art standpoint, the finest and most im-portant sculptures of the old Hittites so far known. Europeanmuseums should at least procure plaster casts of them.
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MALARIA IN GREECE. By Ronald Ross, F, R. S., C. B., Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool. (Professor Osier, M. D., F. R. S., in the chair.) Professor Osier and Gentlemen, I consider myself extremely fortu-nate in being able to introduce the subject of malaria in Greece tomy countrymen, through such a very appropriate avenue as the Ox-ford Medical Society, I was actually considering how the introduc-tion might best be effected when I received the invitation from yoursecretary to address you to-night. For where could anyone whowishes to discourse of Greece do so much better than in Oxford—herself the daughter of Greece, who has borne through the ages thetorch first fired in that divine country? And, since my subject is^sculapian, what audience could I find fitter than yourselves ? Butmy luck does not end here; for in you, Mr. President, I have chancedupon the fittest of all presidents, eminent alike in science and in thehumanities, to both of which my theme appeals.

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