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the knowledge of our subject in the sister isle I am indebted 

 to Professor D. J. Cunningham. The only place in Ireland 

 where anthropological work is done is Trinity College. For 

 many years those in charge of the museum have been collecting 

 skulls, and they were fortunate in obtaining the greater part 

 of Sir William Wilde's collection. To these great additions 

 have been recently made, principally in the form of Irish 

 crania from different districts. All the anthropological speci- 

 mens are lodged in one large room, which is also used as an 

 anthropometric laboratory. Though there has never been 

 any systematic teaching of Anthropology in Trinity College, 

 Dr. C. E. Browne (Professor Cunningham's able assistant), 

 who takes charge of the laboratory, attends for two hours on 

 three days a week, and gives demonstrations in anthropological 

 methods to any students who are interested in the subject. 

 The laboratory was opened in June 1891, the instruments 

 being provided by a grant from the Koyal Irish Academy, 

 and about 500 individuals have already been measured, the 

 greater number of them students of the College. This is, 

 however, only part of the work carried out by the laboratory. 

 Every year the instruments are taken to some selected district 

 in Ireland, and a systematic study of the inhabitants is made. 

 The Araii Islands, and also the islands of Inishbofin and 

 Inishshark, have been already worked out, and this year 

 excursions are organised to Kerry, to a district in Wicklow, 

 and to another in the west of Ireland. The Academy makes 

 yearly grants to the Committee for carrying on this work, 

 the results of which have been published in admirable 

 memoirs by Professor A. C. Haddon and Dr. C. E. Browne. 

 The Science and Art Museum in Dublin, under the direction 

 of Dr. V. Ball, contains a small collection, arranged with a 

 view to general instruction, showing by means of skulls and 

 casts the physical characteristics of the different races of man, 

 those of each race being explained by a short printed label, 

 and its range shown on a map. 



Though the development of anthropological science has 

 thus not been greatly advanced, in this country at least, by 

 means of endowments, or by aid of the State, or, till very 

 recently, by our great scholastic institutions, but has been 



