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ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
G. A. AUDEN, M.D. 
THE increasing recognition of Archeology as a subject worthy 
to hold a place by the side of the ‘more exact Sciences,’ was 
amply exemplified in the programme of Section ‘H’ at Leicester ; 
for an actual majority of the papers contributed to the Anthro- 
pological Section dealt with Archeology in one aspect or 
another. The strong classical tone which pervaded the meet- 
ing is a point of some importance ; and in these days when the 
comparative merits of classical and scientific education are so 
frequently discussed, it is worthy of remark that in Section H, 
representatives of both educational traditions can meet upon 
common ground. Here, for example, a criticism of Usener’s 
Theories upon the ‘ Augenblick-gotter’ of the Greek religious 
cults may divide the day with ‘Notes upon the Maories,’ 
“The Tribes of Perek,’ or on ‘The Souterrains of Ulster.’ 
The choice of a scholar so well-known as Mr. D. G. Hogarth 
(the author of ‘A Wandering Scholar in the Levant’), to fill the 
Presidential Chair, gave promise of a memorable address, a 
promise which was more than amply fulfilled. Those who 
heard his ‘Religious Survivals’ will not readily forget the 
masterly analysis and development of his thesis or his delightful 
grace of style and diction.* 
The discussion of greatest general interest was that initiated 
by Professor Ridgeway upon ‘ The Beginnings of the Iron Age,’ 
wherein he showed by a process of exclusion that it was in the 
highest degree improbable that a knowledge of the properties 
and use of iron was brought from India, China, Egypt, South 
Africa, or Babylonia, and that, per contra, there was some 
presumptive evidence that this knowledge was diffused from 
the region of Noricum (within a few miles of Hallstatt), the 
iron mines of which have always been famous, and which is 
still the centre of the great Central European cattle routes. 
He believed that this knowledge was carried into the Aegean 
during the Dorian immigration period, together with the use of 
cremation—a custom adopted from the tribes of the great 
Germanic forest. 
* As the address has been published in full by the British Association 
(* Presidential Addresses’), and in ‘ Nature’ (Aug. 15th), no abstract has 
here been given; any such attempt would fail to give an adequate summary 
of the argument. ; 
Naturalist, 
