364 Anthropology at the British Association. 



The importance of this last point was emphasised by the 

 joint meeting of the Anthropological and Educational Sections^ 

 to discuss the measurement of the intelligence of the child^ 

 The papers upon this question were of a highly technical 

 character, and the discussion proved the more interesting in that 

 it called forth a singularly apposite speech from Sir George Reid^ 

 High Commissioner for Australia. 



The value of a physical anthropological examination was 

 illustrated by Prof. Fleure in his report of the anthropological 

 survey of the people of Cardiganshire. By an appeal to 

 patriotism, family pride and genealogical knowledge, he has 

 been enabled to examine 526 persons of true Cardigan descent.. 

 Amongst these the dark dolichocephalic ' Mediterranean ' type 

 predominates. There is also a broad-headed dark type, 

 which is more numerous along the coast, while from the district 

 around Newcastle-Emlyn comes a fair-haired light-eyed type, 

 having a cephalic index about 79. This survey is about to be 

 extended to other Welsh counties. 



Egyptian anthropology was well represented. Prof. Flinders 

 Petrie described the excavations at Memphis, and the discoverjr 

 of the earliest private stone tomb that can be dated with 

 certainty, i.e., before the building of the Pyramid of Sneferu, 

 B.C. 4650. Prof. Elliot Smith contributed a paper upon the 

 people of Egypt. The pre-dynastic people are shewn to have 

 extended to Abyssinia, and perhaps to Somaliland. This 

 population appears to have become mixed at the period of the 

 Ilird Dynasty with people entering by the Delta on the north 

 and from Nubia on the south, with a resulting modification of 

 physical type. Anatomical evidence strongly points to the 

 Levant as the source of the white immigration. 



Dr. Seligmann described a neolithic site at Jebel Gule in 

 the Southern Soudan. The finds, which were all surface finds, 

 included a large number of pigmy implements, scrapers, blades, 

 discs, and one axe-head. The finds are of an entirely different 

 type from the worked stones which have hitherto been found 

 in the Meroitic civilisation. Messrs. Woodward and Ormerod 

 contributed a paper upon a group of nineteen prehistoric sites 

 in south-west Asia Minor. Some of the sherds consisting of a 

 red hard polished ware are assignable to the Bronze Age,. 

 but the evidence points to the civilisation being independent 

 of the pre-historic Cappadocian culture. 



Important results attended the excavations at Tsangli in 



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