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and Review is devoted entirely to the study of man. The 

 Anthropological Society, although I am now far from agreeing 

 with all the principles it sends forth, is doing a great deal of 

 work, both by its papers and the translation of little-known 

 publications, but these have to be carefully sifted. 



The bibliography of this subject would now fill a large 

 volume. I will only mention two works, but for VBry different 

 reasons. The first of the translations put forth by the Anthro- 

 pological Society is Introduction to Anthropology, by Waitz — 

 a compilation certainly, but, at the same time interesting, and 

 containing original views. This has been reviewed by a 

 qualified traveller, and many of the circumstances upon which 

 certain positions were upheld as conclusive are challenged, and 

 sometimes demonstrated to he false. In fact, Waitz, given out 

 by authority as written and compiled by one who had devoted 

 long time and research to the subject, cannot be entirely 

 trusted, and must be read side by side with Burton's review 

 and notes. I have mentioned this to show you how very 

 careful we require to be in drawing conclusions from works 

 ranging over a whole subject, where portions must be gathered 

 second-hand — such are quite different from a monograph, or 

 description of some particular local formation in geology, or of 

 the description of some particular tribe with which the indi- 

 vidual had had long intercourse. Here the authors, when they 

 generalise, may be mistaken ; but the facts so studied and re- 

 corded may be mostly depended on. 



The other work I alluded to is by one of the most careful 

 and candid observers of the present day. It is a paper by 

 Joseph Prestwich, Esq., published in the Transactions of the 

 Eoyal Society for 1864, — " Theoretical considerations on the 

 conditions under which the deposits containing the remains of 

 extinct Mammalia and Flint Implements ivere accumulated, and 

 their Geological Age!' Mr. Prestwich, after very careful and 

 repeated examinations of the valley of the Somme, extending 

 over a series of years, and compared with other deposits, in 



