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one " Readership " in Anthropology was established 

 at Oxford, and Dr. Tylor's lectures there, and the 

 course given by Mr. Henry Balfour at Cambridge, 

 on the Arts of Mankind and their Evolution, and by 

 Professor A. Thomson on Physical Anthropology, 

 were attracting attention. The organisation of the 

 Ashmolean Museum under Mr. Arthur Evans had 

 some bearing upon branches of the subject, the 

 Indian Institute was encouraging interest in the 

 races of our Eastern Empire, and the study of 

 Comparative Physiology was becoming to some ex- 

 tent linked up with it. At Cambridge an Ethnological 

 and Ethnographical Museum was being formed in 

 1884, of which Baron Anatole von Hugel was the 

 first curator. In 1894 Anthropology was part of the 

 examination subject for those taking up anatomy in 

 the second part of the Natural Science Tripos. In 

 an address at the Oxford meeting of the British 

 Association in that year, Flower referred to the 

 above facts as examples of the progress being 

 made, and also cited the attention paid to the sub- 

 ject in Scotch universities. He touched on the 

 value of systematic teaching of the "science of 

 measurement," or Anthropometry, as a possible aid 

 to the inquiry as to the laws of growth, of heredity, 

 of comparative capacity of individuals in a com- 

 munity, and of the effects of different kinds of 

 education and occupation, worked out first by M. 

 Que in Belgium, and by Mr. Francis Galton, Dr. 

 Roberts, and others in this country. He claimed 



