Ixxxiv. president's address. 



enjoyed by all true lovers of natural history. Without going to 

 any costly expense in the matter, the Government might be asked 

 to follow the good example of the City of London in Epping 

 Forest by setting aside some hundreds of acres either in the New 

 Forest or on Dartmoor, where the experiment could be tried 

 and every encouragement given to these animals to increase in 

 moderation. However that may be, I must be satisfied to-day 

 to have started such an idea and leave it to others to follow up 

 and work it out. 



ANTHROPOLOGy. 



A most interesting address was given at the meeting of the 

 British Association at Belfast in 1902 by Dr. Haddon on the 

 subject of Totemism, to which he had given special attention 

 during his researches in Torres's Straits ; and in the Pitt-Rivers 

 Museum at Oxford (named after the late General Pitt-Rivers, 

 so many years one of our Vice-Presidents) there has been 

 erected a remarkable Totem post from the Haida village of 

 Masset, in Queen Charlotte's Island, British Columbia. This 

 post, described by Professor Tyler in " Man," is about 40ft. 

 high, and is elaborately carved with Totems belonging to the 

 family of the chief, who erected it in the village. Several papers 

 relating to African ethnology were published during the year by 

 the Anthropological Institute : notably one by the Rev. J. 

 Roscoe, describing the manners and customs of the Baganda 

 — a finely-built negroid people speaking Bantu and living on the 

 west side of the Victoria Nyanza. Another paper by Mr. H. B. 

 Johnstone on the customs of the tribes near Mombasa ; and 

 also a valuable account of the wild tribes in the Malay Peninsula 

 by Mr. W. H. Skeat, who classifies them under three types, 

 namely: — (i) the woolly-headed Semang, (2) the wavy-haired 

 Sakai, and (3) the straight-haired Jakun. At home, in the 

 neighbouring county of Wilts, a remarkable discovery of 

 palaeolithic implements near Savernake was made by Mr. J. B. 

 Dixon, of Pewsev, and of these relics a fine selection is now in 



