XLIV. 

 ADDRESS ON ANTHROPOLOGY, 



DELIVERED TO THE ANTHROPOLOaiCAL DEPARTMENT OF THE 

 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Some few weeks ago Mr. James Parker, of Oxford, invited me to 

 visit your Somersetshire caves, in the company of the Warwickshire 

 Naturalists' and Archaeologists' Field Club. It struck me that I 

 should do well, as I was to preside over the Anthropological 

 Department at this British Association Meeting, if I tried to learn 

 as much as I could of the relics and of the surroundings of the 

 Prehistoric inhabitants of your neighbourhood ; and for this, as 

 well as for other reasons, I gladly accepted the invitation. During 

 that pleasant midsummer excursion, I was more than once im- 

 pressed with the similarity which its incidents bore to those of the 

 undertaking in which we are now engaged, and, indeed, to those 

 of the study of Anthropology generally. First, the organisation 

 of the expedition had entailed some considerable amount of labour 

 upon those who had charged themselves with that duty; and, 

 secondly, a thorough exploration of the recesses and sinuosities of 

 the several caves which we explored devolved upon us not only a 

 good deal of exertion, but even some slight amount of risk ; for 

 the passages and galleries along which we worked our way were 

 sometimes low and narrow, often steep, and nearly always slippery. 

 Thirdly, the outline of the regions explored bore quite different 

 aspects accordingly as we lighted them up or had them lit up for 

 us in one or in another of several different ways. 



If in any segment of these caves the outside daylight could any- 

 how find a zigzag way down some shaft into the interior, that 

 segment wore a general aspect more comfortable to the eye, and so 

 to the mind, than others not so illuminated. These latter regions, 

 again, varied greatly inter se^ according to the various artificial means 

 employed for lighting them up. The means ordinarily used for 



