ABEEDEEN UNIVEESITY ANATOMICAL AND 

 ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



In the summer of 1899 the above Society was founded in con- 

 nection with this University. Prof. Eeid, M.D., F.E.C.S., was 

 appointed the first President, and at the opening meeting, held in 

 November, he delivered his presidential address, in which he stated 

 the aims and objects of the Society. He also indicated a number of 

 interesting lines of investigation which the members might undertake, 

 and strongly urged the careful and systematic registration of 

 anthropometrical measurements in the more remote regions of the 

 North of Scotland. Such work, he said, would be of great value 

 before a general admixture of type occurred. 



In a very able manner he put forward the claims for the establish- 

 ment of a General Anthropological Museum, stating that graduates 

 at home and abroad could give valuable aid in the formation of 

 such. He was confident that in the new University extension 

 scheme ample accommodation would be provided for such a valuable 

 and educative institution. 



The secretaries received letters of cordial support from the 

 following Anatomists and Anthropologists in the country :— Principal 

 Sir Wm. D. Geddes, Prof. Macalister, Prof. Sir Wm. Turner, Sir 

 John Evans, Prof. Arthur Thomson, Prof. Cunningham, Prof. 

 Stewart, Prof. Howes, Prof. Arthur Keith, Prof. Windle, Prof. 

 Haddon', Mr Francis Galton, Prof. Keane, Mr C. H. Eeade, Dr 

 Beddoe, Sir Wm. M'Gregor. 



At the first meeting, held in the Anatomical Department on 9th 

 November, a series of Paleolithic implements from the Somme Valley 

 and South of England, sent to the Society by Sir John Evans, was 

 exhibited. A liver shewing the so-called Riedel's lobe was shewn, 

 as also a specimen of double direct inguinal hernia. 



At the second meeting, held on 9th January of this year, an interest- 

 ing case of thirteen ribs, three of wliich joined the manubrium sterni, 

 was exhibited by Dr Low, Senior Assistant in the Anatomical Depart- 

 ment. A demonstration on the morphology of certain foetal fissures 

 was given by jNIr E. D. Keith. Three interesting specimens of 

 decorated New Guinea skulls from the ethnological collection in the 

 Anatomical Museum were exhibited, along with objects shewhig 

 similar artistic work from New Guinea, belonging to the collection 

 of Sir Wm. ^Sl'Ciregor, contained in the Anthropological IMuseum. 

 A well-marked case of supracondylar process was shewn and com- 

 mented upon. Prof. Eeid said tbat this was the only case that had 

 occurred in the last two hundred subjects which had been dissected 

 in the Anatomical rooms. 



