White.] 100 



Owen, as a distinct sub-class, was founded principally upon 

 the assumption that this overlapping of the cerebellum by the 

 cerebrum was pecuhar to him, and furthennore upon the 

 distinctive presence of a posterior horn to the lateral ventri- 

 cle, and of the hippocampus minor, which Huxley had also 

 shown to exist in some of the quadrumana, and by whom 

 it was insisted that these distinctions were valueless. 



Professor Jeffries Wyman mentioned some of the peculiar 

 characteristics of the elephant's brain. 



Dr. White remarked that the highest capacity of the skull 

 of a gorilla, as given by Owen, was thirty-four and a half 

 cubic inches, and that one in the possession of Dr. Wyman 

 contains thirty-five, while the one in the Society's cabinet 

 now exhibited measured even thirty-seven cubic inches. 



Dr. Winslow, referring to the remarkable flatness of the 

 occiput in the Peruvian skull just presented by him, observed 

 that in the Peruvians of the present day, whether Indians, or 

 those of the highest rank, the flatness of the occiput was the 

 result of the mode of tending the children, the custom being 

 quite a universal one of swathing the infmt in bandages so 

 tightly that it cannot move, and of always laymg it upon its 

 back when at rest whether upon a hard or soft surface. 



Dr. White remarked that the custom of swathing the child 

 was practised by the Germans until the infant was a year old ; 

 and that there could be no doubt that both the brachycephalic 

 and dolichocephalic forms of ancient Peruvian skulls were 

 much modified by the custom of artificial compression. 



At this point Dr. C. T. Jackson, Vice President, took the 

 chair, and the Rev. Mr. Waterston addressed the meeting 

 upon some of the educational instrumentalities which he 

 believed to be within reach of the Society ; he afterwards 

 embodied his remarks in the following motion : 



" That a Committee of three be appointed to consider the subject 

 of coui-scs of lectures to the Public School Teachers of this vicinity, 

 with full powers to act." 



The motion was warmly seconded by Mr. Cummings. 

 Dr. C. T. Jackson proposed that the subject should be 

 referred to the Council. 



Mr. T. T. Bouve thought that a committee fi:om the 



