14 THe MIGRATIONS OF MAN. 
McKerrow; Librarian, Rev. William Andson; Curator of 
Museum, Mr James Lennox; Curators of Herbarium, Professor 
Scott-Elliot and Miss Hannay. Other Members of Council—Mr 
James Davidson, Rev. John Cairns, Mr William Dickie, Mr 
William M‘Cutcheon, Mrs Helen Atkinson, Mr John T. John- 
stone, Rev. H. A. Whitelaw, Mr J. B. Waddell, Mr W. A. Mac- 
kinnel, and Mr James Houston. Curator of Coins and Tokens, 
Rev. H. A. Whitelaw; Antiquities, Dr Martin and Mr Harry 
Edgar; of Natural History Specimens, Mr R. Service, jun. 
Auditors, Mr John Symons, Royal Bank, and Mr Bertram 
M‘Gowan. Photographic and Antiquities Committees were re- 
appointed. 
The Treasurer intimated that Mrs M‘Dowall had presented 
to the Society the Manuscript of the “ History of Dumfries,”’ 
written by her late husband, Mr William M‘Dowall. 
The Society accepted the gift with much gratification, and 
requested the Secretary to thank Mrs M‘Dowall for the same. 
26th October, 1906. 
Chairman—The Rev. JoHN Cairns. 
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. By the President, Professor G. F. 
Scorpion, MOA. FP SRAGes:s ee: 
THE MIGRATIONS OF Man. 
Anthropology is at present suffering under an enormous 
accumulation of observations and an unusual multiplicity of 
authoritative authors. I will try to draw a few clear and 
definite conclusions from this bewildering mass of detail, but 
must ask you to hold me excused if I give but one side of various 
questions upon which there are still many irreconcilable opinions. 
To produce the full evidence for my conclusions and to refute 
those which are not mentioned would require not a paper but 
probably a whole series of closely reasoned volumes. 
Even if we take the world as we find it, neither summoning 
continents from the vasty deep nor assuming great and sweeping 
changes of climate, then man’s wanderings may be explained by 
