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this department of science are too numerous to catalogue : 

 thej have appeared, for the most part, in the Memoirs and 

 Journal of the Anthropological Society, in those of the 

 Ethnological Society, of the Anthropological Institute, and 

 . of the British Association, and in the Revue d' Anthropologic. 



In 1868 Dr. Beddoe carried off the great prize (150 

 guineas) of the Welsh IS'ational Eisteddfod, for a MS. Essay 

 on "The Origin of the English Nation." The prize had been 

 competed for during five years by a large number of com- 

 petitors, the judge being the late Lord Strangford. Durino- 

 seventeen years the author continued to add to his materials, 

 visiting for that purpose almost every part of the United 

 Kingdom, until, in the autumn of 1885, he published the 

 condensed results under the title of " The Races of Britain : 

 a Contribution to the Anthropology of Western Europe." 

 The work was very warmly received, and favourably re- 

 viewed by the organs of scientific thought in Grermany, 

 France, Belgium, and America. Whatever its merits or 

 defects, it is undoubtedly the most elaborate and compre- 

 hensive work of the kind in any language. 



He is LL.D., honoris causa, of the University of Edin- 

 burgh, a Life Governor of University College, London; and 

 has received from the French Government the First Class 

 of the Order of Pablic Instruction. In 1891 he was Rhind 

 Lecturer in Archaeology, and delivered in Edinburgh a 

 course of Lectures on the Anthropological History of 

 Europe. 



Dr. Beddoe took a most active part in the work of the 

 Bristol iJ^aturalists' Society, as will be seen by the follow- 

 ing list of the papers he has read from time to time at the 

 General Meeting^s : — • 



Nov. 6th, 1882. " The Physical Characters of the Natives 

 of this District." 



