ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 67 



Eighty-Fourth Regular Meeting, May 20, 1884. 



Dr. Robert Fletcher, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Curator acknowledged the receipt of a series of photographs 

 from Prince Roland Bonaparte, for which the thanks of the Society 

 were voted. 



Dr. Swan M. Burnett read a paper on "Comparative Fre- 

 quency OF Certain Eye Diseases in the White and the Colored 

 Race in the United States." 



abstract. 



Dr. Burnett related briefly the history of the manner in which 

 the colored race was suddenly transported from its old to its new 

 environment. Now, physicians have been earnest in the inquiry 

 how much this race has been affected by contact with the superior 

 race. Dr. Burnett himself has made extensive researches on this 

 question at the eye and ear dispensary, and his address was a repe- 

 tition of his experience, 2,341 cases having been examined^i,530 

 colored, 1,811 white. The statistics covered inquiries concerning 

 constitutional diseases of the eye, as well as defects in the optical 

 instrument itself. The most marked race difference is in the en- 

 tire absence of granular lids in the blacks, while it forms quite a 

 large per cent, of eye disease among the whites. In healing power 

 the races are alike. 



Dr. Elmer Reynolds read a paper on a " Collection of 

 Antiquities from Vendome, Senlis, and the Cave-Dwellings 

 of France." 



Dr. Reynolds exhibited a beautiful collection of stone imple- 

 ments sent to him by correspondents in France, and his paper was 

 a narration of his story, reaching through the archseolithic, the 

 neolithic, and the bronze age. The objects were sent by the Count 

 de Maricourt and his brother, the Baron de Maricourt, as types of 

 all the characteristic stone implements in France. Dr. Reynolds 

 reviewed the collection in the light of his own experiences, and 

 showed the method of manufacture and the uses of each. 



