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PKESIDENTIAL ADDKESS TO THE DEPAKTMENT 

 OF ANTHKOPOLOGY 1 



IT is impossible for us to commence the work of this section 

 of the Association without having vividly brought to our 

 minds the loss which has befallen us since our last meeting 

 the loss of one who was our most characteristic representative 

 of the complex science of Anthropology one who had for many 

 years conducted with extraordinary energy, amidst multifarious 

 other avocations, a series of researches into the history, customs, 

 and physical characters of the early inhabitants of our island, 

 for which he was so especially fitted by his archaeological, 

 historical, and literary as well as his anatomical knowledge, 

 and who was also the most popular and brilliant expositor, to 

 assemblies such as meet together on these occasions, of the 

 results of those researches. I need scarcely say that I refer 

 to Professor Kolleston. 



Within the last few months the study of our subject in this 

 country has received an impulse from the publication of a book 

 small in size, it is true, but full of materials for thought and 

 instruction the Anthropology of Mr. E. B. Tylor, the first work 

 published in English with that title, and one very different in 

 its scope and method from the older ethnological treatises. 



The immense array of facts brought together in a small 

 compass, the terseness and elegance of the style, the good taste 

 and feeling with which difficult and often burning questions 

 are treated, should give this book a wide circulation among all 

 classes, and thoroughly familiarise both the word and the 

 subject to English readers. 



1 British Association for the Advancement of Science (York Meeting), 1st 

 September 1881. 



