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which has been adopted is certainly the best. In it every 

 specimen of whatever nature at once finds a place, in which 

 it can at any time be discovered and recognised. 



In referring to our great national collection, I cannot 

 refrain from saying that there seemed till lately to be only 

 one element wanting to make it all that could be desired, 

 and that was space, not only for the proper preservation and 

 exhibition of what it already contains, but also for its 

 inevitable future expansion. The provision in this respect 

 was totally inadequate to do justice to the importance of the 

 subject. Happily this consideration will be no longer a bar 

 to the development of the collection. The provident action 

 of the authorities of the museum, aided by the liberality of 

 the Duke of Bedford, and the wisdom of Her Majesty's 

 Government, has secured for many years to come the necessary 

 room for the expansion of the grandest of our national 

 institutions. 



More modern even than museums has been the introduction 

 of any systematic teaching of Anthropology into this country. 

 This is certainly most remarkable, considering that there is no 

 nation to which the subject is of such great importance. Its 

 importance to those who have to rule and there are few of 

 us now who are not called upon to bear our share of the 

 responsibilities of government can scarcely be overestimated 

 in an empire like this, the population of which, as I have 

 just said, is compcised of examples of almost every diversity 

 under which the human body and mind can manifest itself. 

 The physical characteristics of race, so strongly marked in 

 many cases, are probably always associated with equally or 

 more diverse characteristics of temper and intellect. In fact, 

 even when the physical divergences are weakly shown, as in 

 the different races which contribute to make up the home 

 portion of the Empire, the mental and moral characteristics 

 are still most strongly marked. As the wise physician will 

 not only study the particular kind of disease under which his 

 patient is suffering before administering the approved remedies 

 for such disease, but will also take into careful account the 

 peculiar idiosyncrasy and inherited tendencies of the individual, 

 which so greatly modify both the course of the disease and 



