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Eng-lish reader by Professor Huxley, two years later, in the ♦ Pre- 

 historic Remains of Caithness.' I have made a list, perhaps not 

 an exhaustive one, but containing some dozen memoirs by Dr. 

 Beddoe, and having read them or nearly all of them, I can with a 

 very safe conscience recommend you all to do the like. I can say 

 nearly the same as regards Broca and Virchow, adding that the 

 former of these two savants has set the other two with whom 1 

 have coupled him an excellent example, by collecting and publish- 

 ing his papers in consecutive volumes. 



But I should forget not only what is due to the place in which 

 I am speaking, but what is due to the subject I am here concerned 

 with, if in speaking of its literature, I omitted the name of your 

 own townsman, Prichard. He has been called, and, I think, 

 justly, the ' father of modern Anthropology.' I am but putting 

 the same thing in other words, and adding something more specific 

 to it, when I compare his works to those of Gibbon and Thirl wall, 

 and say that they have attained, and seem likely to maintain per- 

 manently, a position and importance commensurate with that of 

 the ' stately and undecaying ' productions of those great English 

 historians. Subsequently to the first appearance of those histories 

 other works have appeared by other authors, who have dealt in 

 them with the same periods of time. I have no wish to depreciate 

 those works ; their authors have not rarely rectified a slip and cor- 

 rected an error into which their great predecessors had fallen. 

 Nay, more, the later comers have by no means neglected to avail 

 themselves of the advantages which the increase of knowledge 

 and the vast political experience of the last thirty years have put 

 at their disposal, and they have thus occasionally had opportunities 

 of showing more of the true proportions and relations of even 

 great events and catastrophes ; still the older works retain a 

 lasting value, and will remain as solid testimonies to English in- 

 tellect and English capacity for large undertakings as long as our 

 now rapidly extending language and literature live. The same 

 may be most truthfully said of Prichard's 'Researches into the 

 Physical History of Mankind.' An increase of knowledge may 

 supply us with fresh and with stronger arguments than he could 

 command for some of the great conclusions for which he con- 

 tended ; such, notably, has been the case in the question (though 

 * question ' it can no longer be called) of the Unity of the human 



