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craniometry and osteometry, by the aid of a greatly increased 

 and continually augmenting collection of specimens. Those 

 students who take anatomy as their subject for the second 

 part of the Natural Science Tripos have both paper work and 

 practical examination in Anthropology, each man having a 

 skull placed in his hands, of which he is expected to make a 

 complete diagnostic description. For the first part of the 

 tripos each candidate has one or more questions on the broad 

 general principles of the subject. Professor Macalister informs 

 me that he has always at least six men who go through a very 

 thorough practical course with their own hands. There has 

 also lately been established a course of lectures on the 

 Natural History of the Kaces of Man, delivered during the 

 Michaelmas and Lent terms by Dr. Hickson, of Downing 

 College, and Baron von Hugel gives a course of museum 

 demonstrations on the weapons, ornaments, and other objects 

 in the Ethnological Museum, which is open to all students, 

 and of which many take advantage. 



In London, owing to the chaotic condition of all forms of 

 higher instruction, which has been brought so prominently 

 into notice by the universal demand for a teaching University 

 (an aspiration which the labours of the late Gresham Coin- 

 mission certainly seem to have brought nearer to realisation 

 than ever appeared possible before), all systematic anthropo- 

 logical teaching has been entirely neglected. The great 

 collections to which I have already alluded, that of arts and 

 customs at the British Museum, and that of osteological 

 specimens at the Koyal College of Surgeons, have by their 

 steady augmentation done valuable service in preserving a 

 vast quantity of material for future investigation and instruc- 

 tion, and students have at present all reasonable facilities for 

 pursuing their own researches in them. Lectures have never 

 formed any part of the official programme of the British 

 Museum, but at the College of Surgeons it is otherwise, and 

 though the contents of the collections are specially indicated 

 as the subject on which they should be delivered, for the last 

 ten years at least, Anthropology, notwithstanding the magnifi- 

 cent material at hand for its illustration, has had no place in 

 the annual syllabus. It is also entirely ignored in the 



