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and relates that one night in the course of this 

 visit the police had conducted him and Professor 

 Huxley round the poorest parts of Liverpool, 

 and showed them how they carried out their 

 duties of inspection. As far as he and Huxley 

 could judge, the duties were well and conscien- 

 tiously discharged ; but they could not help 

 regretting the necessity. The laws against over- 

 crowding, for instance, involved the right of 

 entering bedrooms in the dead of the night, and 

 it was easy to see how such functions might be 

 used as an engine of oppression or corruption. 

 So far, however, as they could see from the way 

 the police were everywhere received, there was 

 no reason to suspect anything of the kind. 



In the commencement of 1871 he had a high 

 honour paid him, on the suggestion of Professor 

 Huxley, to which he had no option but to assent, 

 that he should be first president of the newly 

 formed Anthropological Institute. 



" My dear Lubbock," Huxley writes, " The Anthro- 

 pological Society and the Ethnological Society are 

 defunct, and out of their ashes is to arise a Phcenix — 

 hight the ' Anthropological Institute of Great Britain 

 and Ireland.' 



" Putting both together there will be something over 

 five hundred paying members, and a debt of about 

 £1100 to £1200, one third of which (roughly) belongs to 

 the Ethnological, and two-thirds to the Anthropological. 



" We have taken the Council of the new body, half 

 from one society and half from the other — and alto- 

 gether I think that the arrangement is a very fair one. 



" When we began to discuss the question of the 

 President it was clear that the Anthropological did not 

 want me (I had been led to suppose they did). 



" So I, at once, withdrew my name from any further 

 discussion — and proposed yours. At this there was the 



