MEETING. 



T. Chaplin, Esq., M.D., in the Chair. 



The following paper was read in the author's unavoidable absence by 

 J. W. Slater, Esq., F.L.S., F.E.S. :— 



ON SPECIMENS IN THE PETER BEDPATH 

 MUSEUM OE McGILL UNIVERSITY ILLUS- 

 TRATING THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERS AND 

 AFEINITIES OF THE GUANCHES OR EXTINCT 

 PEOPLE OF THE CANARY ISLANDS. By Sir 

 J. AViLLiAM Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., &c.* 



(Abstract.) The paper relates to the following subjects : — 



1. General notice of collections presented to the Museum by Mr. R. S. 



Haliburton and Dr. E. J. Lambert. 



2. Notice of the historical facts as to tlie Canary Islands and their people. 



3. Characters of Crania in the collection ; their affinities. 



4. Objects of art in the collection. 



5. General remai-ks and conclusions with reference to the relationship 



of the Guanches to ancient peoples of Western Europe and Africa, 

 and possible connection with the colonisation of Eastern America. 



\st. General Notice of the Collections. 



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IHE Peter Redpath Museum has been so fortunate as to 

 I obtain, through the kind agency of friends, a collection, 

 perhaps the best at present in North America, of the remains 

 of this remarkable extinct people. It was hoped that the 

 late Sir Daniel Wilson, our leading Canadian archseologist, 

 would have prepared an account of this collection, which 

 he visited and studied with that purpose in the spring of 

 ]892. It might have been expected that his wide knowledge 

 of the cranial cliaracters of American and other races would 

 have enabled him to determine more certainly than hereto- 

 fore, the relationship of the Guanches with other peoples. 

 Unfortunately his lamented death prevented the fulfilment 

 of this intention, and the present paper is intended, however 

 imperfectly, to render the specimens as useful as possible to 

 those interested in the subject, though without entering as 



This paper is the latest published in regard to the Guanches. — Ed, 



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