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35 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, N.W.3. - Has been reading the abridged 'Golden Bough' and suggests a connection between the myth of Adonis, Attys and Osiris and the existence of primitive wheat in the same area of the Lebanon and Mount Hermon; provides an extract of a chapter on wheat in Professor J. Arthur Thomson's 'Science Old & New'. She has met a Syrian lady, Miss Fareedeh el Akle, who has a school at Brummana; she read the description 'Adonis in Syria', and found the description accurate; this woman had been of service in the campaign in Palestine and Syria and had seen much of Lawrence and had given him lessons in Arabic.