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JOURNAL

OF THE

ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

NOVEMBER 3RD, 1863.

DR. JAMES HUNT, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The following Fellows were announced as having been elected since the last ordinary meeting of the Society. James Reddie, Esq.; Dr. A. Joannides, L.R.C.P; Henry William Wickes, Esq.; John Bailey, Esq., B.A.; Dr. Buchanan Washbourne; G. R. Croxford, Esq.; Edward Clodd, Esq.; Walter Flight, Esq.; A. Ramsay, Esq., jun.; Dr. C. D. Hammond; John de Horne, Esq.; James Rock, Esq., jun.; George E. Roberts, Esq.; Henry Matthews, Esq.; John Mason Hepworth, Esq.; J. King Watts, Esq., F.R.G.S.; Captain Fleming; Joseph James Forrester, Esq.; J. R. Gregory, Esq.; George S. L. Hunt, Esq.; E. Sturman, Esq.; Eric Williams, Esq.; Sidney Faithhorn Green, Esq.; Montgomery Campbell, Esq.; Dr. Mackenzie Skues.

The names of the following Corresponding Members were announced. M. d'Omalius d'Halloy; Prof. Buschmann; Prof. Kaup; Prof. C. G. Carus; Dr. Karl Scherzer; Prof. Rütimeyer; Dr. C. W. F. Uhde; Prof. Raimondy; The Marquis de Vibraye; Hermann de Schlagintweit; Prof. Daniel Wilson; Count Marschall; Prof. Hyrtl; Prof. Hochstetter.

The name of the following Local Secretary in England was announced. R. T. Gore, Esq., F.R.C.S.

The names of the following Local Secretaries abroad were announced. J. G. C. Ross, Esq.; Capt. W. Parker Snow; William Lockhart, Esq.; W. E. Stanbridge, Esq.; Paul B. du Chaillu, Esq.; Capt. A. H. Russell; A. G. Cross, Esq.; J. S. Wilson, Esq.

The Secretary read a list of presents, for which the thanks of the Society were voted to J. Jones, Esq.; Prof. Busk; Dr. W. Bell; M. Boucher de Perthes; the Anthropological Society of Paris; M. Paul Broca; M. Pruner-Bey; George Tate, Esq., F.G.S.; Prof. R. Owen, F.R.S.; M. Camille Dareste; Prof. Nicolucci; M. d'Omalius d'Halloy; Prof. J. D. Dana; the Smithsonian Institution of New York; A. Stair, Esq.; David Carrington, Esq.; Prof. Eckhard.

Mr. C. CARTER BLAKE presented the following Report on the An

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thropological Papers read at the Newcastle Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in August and September, 1863.

In pursuance of a resolution which was arrived at by the Council in August last, your reporter proceeded to Newcastle, and now reports the chief results of his labours.

The delegates from the Anthropological Society, consisting of Dr. James Hunt, F.S.A.; Mr. J. King Watts, F.R.G.S., and your reporter, have, in the first place, to express their thanks to the local authorities for the hospitable manner in which they were received on various occasions, and for the many facilities which were placed at their disposal. The following is a list of the Committee of Section E, to which the delegates of the Anthropological Society were attached, and in which the majority of the Anthropological papers were read.

SECTION E.-GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. President: Sir Roderick I. Murchison, K.C.B., G.C.St.S., D.C.L., F.R.S., President of the Royal Geographical Society, Director-General of the Geological Survey. Vice-Presidents: J. C. Bruce, LLD., F.S.A.; J. Crawfurd, FR.S.; Francis Galton, M.A., F.R.S.; Sir John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S.; General Sabine, Pres. R.S. Secretaries: Clements R. Markham, F.S.A. F.R.G.S.; R. S. Watson; C. Carter Blake, F.G.S., F.A.S.L.; Hume Greenfield, Asst. Sec. R.G.S. Committee: Colonel Sir James E. Alexander, K.C.L.S.; Prof. Ansted, F.R.S.; Colonel Baker, R.E.; C. H. Bracebridge, F.R.G.S.; Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.G.S.; John Clayton; George Collinson, C.E.; Ralph Carr; R. R. Dees; Robert Dunn, F.R.C.S.; Dr. H. Falconer, F.R.S.; Captain Goodenough, R.N.; Captain Grant, R.I.A.; Rev. W. Greenwell; John Hogg, F.L.S, F.R.G.S.; Dr. James Hunt, F.S.A., F.A.S.L.; Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D.; J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S.; Colonel Lefroy, R.A. F.R.S.; Commodore Maury, C.S.N.; James McClelland, F.A.S.L; P. O'Callaghan ; Captain Bedford Pim, R.N., F.R.G.S., Assoc. C.E.; Sir Harry Parkes, C.B., F.R.GS.; Captain Ratcliffe, F.L.S., F.R.G.S., F.A.S.L.; George E. Roberts, F.A.S.L.; Samuel F. Solly, F R.S.; Mutu Coomara Swamy, of Ceylon; Dr. Julius Schvarcz, F.G.S., F.A.S.L.; Prof. Piazzi Smyth, F.R.S.; G. Edward Salmon, C.E.; William Spottiswoode, F.R.S.; Colonel Sykes, M.P., F.R.S.; Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart.; Rev. H. B. Tristram, M.A.; Alfred Wallace, F.R.G.S.; Prof. Daniel Wilson; J. King Watts, F.R.G.S., F.A.S.L.; William Wheelwright, F.R.G.S.

A negotiation had taken place with the General Secretary of the British Association, having for its object the establishment of a distinct subsection in section E, in which anthropological, including ethnological, papers should be read. This negotiation not appearing likely to produce any scientific result, it was decided that the anthropological papers should be read in section E, and be associated with the geographical and ethnological papers therein discussed. He has now to report on the papers which were read in section E. Fortyone papers were so read; eighteen treating on geographical subjects, to which no further reference need be made in this report; fourteen

on anthropological subjects, and nine on ethnological subjects. A list of these follows.

Anthropological papers read :

A. Brought up by the delegates of the Anthropological Society.

1. Hunt. On Anthropological Classification.

2. Hunt. Physical and Mental Characters of the Negro.
3. Blake. Cranioscopy of South America.

4. Charnock. Celtic Languages.

5. Lee. Extinction of Races.

6. Roberts and Busk. On the opening of a Cist.
7. Schlagintweit. Ethnological Casts (taken as read).
8. Jacobs. Vancouver's Island (taken as read).

B. From independent sources.

1. Lovaine. Lacustrian habitations.

2. Duckworth. Cranium from Amiens.
3. Turner. Cranium from Amiens.
4. Petrie. Antiquities of Orkneys.
5. Hall. Social Life of Celts.

6. Wilson. Runic Description.

Ethnological papers read:

A. Brought up by delegates of Ethnological Society.

1. Crawfurd.

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5. Do.

Commixture of Races of Man in New World.
Eastern Asia (previously read in London).
Antiquity of Man (previously read in London).
Celtic Languages (previously read in London).
Origin of Gypsies (previously read in London).

6. Swinhoe. Ethnology of Formosa (previously read in London). B. From independent sources (so far as known).

1. Mutu Coomara Swamy. Ceylon.

2. Wallace. On Malay Archipelago.

3. Fleming. Ethnology of Manchuria.

Summary of above results :

Anthropological papers sent by Anthropological Society,
and read

Anthropological papers from independent sources

Total Anthropological papers read

Ethnological papers sent by Ethnological Society, and
read

[of which four previously, and one original paper.]
Ethnological papers from independent sources (so far as
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The above figures are perhaps sufficient to show the care which your delegates attempted to exercise in order that the Anthropological Society of London should be efficiently represented at Newcastle; and your reporter is most strongly impressed with the conviction, that the simple fact that the sister ethnological society, after twenty years

of more or less active existence, could only produce one original paper to be read at the great scientific congress of England, while the Anthropological Society sent eight such original papers, is an omen indicative of the rapid increase in strength and scientific position of the younger and larger society.

Your reporter, whilst he calls attention to these facts, at the same time must express his regret at the state of thought in which the public mind was observed to be at the British Association; it was not such as to encourage anthropologists to believe that their science will become a popular one amongst the middle-classes of England for many years. It will be, however, the duty of any representative whom the Anthropological Society may select to forward their interests at future meetings of the British Association, to lose no opportunity of impressing sound elementary facts, with a view to remove those misconceptions respecting the true objects of anthropology, which proceed from unscientific prepossessions.

The task of giving a detailed analysis of each paper read is one which your reporter will not here attempt. The fact that the Anthropological Review, which although entirely independent of the society, is in the hands of every member, has devoted a large space in its columns this quarter to a report of the meeting, will be to a certain extent an excuse for this omission. Your reporter will, however, briefly allude to a few of the more important papers.

Dr. James Hunt, our President, contributed a highly valuable paper on "Anthropological Classification", in which the whole range of the subject was considered and discussed in the most complete manner. This paper will be laid before the society during the present session, and it is to be hoped ultimately inserted in its memoirs, for which its great length will render it peculiarly appropriate. Your President also delivered a paper on "The Physical and Mental Characters of the Negro", on which a long discussion arose, during which, although much feeling was displayed, no scientific fact was elicited. The author will read a paper on a similar subject before the Anthropological Society on the 17th November.

Mr. R. S. Charnock, our Treasurer, sent an exceedingly learned paper respecting the "Celtic Languages", in which the opinions of Mr. J. Crawfurd were severely criticised. The absence of Mr. Charnock from the Association was an event much to be deplored for philological science, he being at the time absent in the Pyrenees; I understand that he will lay the results of his investigation on the dialects spoken in Andorra before the society at no distant day.

Mr. Lee's paper on the "Extinction of Races" was read, and will also be laid before our society at an early day.

Mr. George E. Roberts and Prof. Busk described a skeleton from Bennet Hill, on the Moray Firth. Their paper will be read at a later hour this evening.

Papers were sent by Hermann de Schlagintweit and by Captain Jacob, which were taken as read.

Lord Lovaine, Messrs. Duckworth and Turner, the Rev. R. Hall, Mr. Petrie and Prof. Wilson, contributed valuable papers to the sec

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