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we can turn these very forces themselves to our own protection and advantage. 
We have the knowledge and the power to stamp out consumption, the great curse 
of civilisation. Shall we not complete the investigation for the remainder of the 
body, and so obtain and maintain, in the presence of further advances of civilisation, 
the highest physical development of man ? 
The Polytechnic Physical Development Society. 
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2. On some Archeological Remains bearing on the question of the Origin of 
the Anglo-Saxons in England. By Roserr Munro, M.A., ID. 
The author of the ‘ Viking Age’ maintains that the so-called Anglo-Saxons in 
England are of Scandinavian origin, and this theory he attempts to substantiate by 
two main lines of argument—viz. (1) by an analysis of the Sagas and other his- 
torical documents of Western Europe; and (2) by a comparison of the antiquities 
found in England and in Scandinavia. 
In a subsequent correspondence which appeared in the ‘Times,’ M. Du 
Chaillu challenged archeologists to point out any remains in any other part of 
Europe so like those of the early Anglo-Saxons in England as the relics he figures 
from Scandinavia. In the regions at the mouth of the Elbe and the Western 
Coasts of Germany and Holland, from which, according to the generally accepted 
opinion, the earlier Anglo-Saxon immigrants hailed, there do not exist, according 
to him, any analogous remains at all, More recently, in a lecture delivered in 
Edinburgh under the auspices of the Geographical Society of Scotland, M. Du 
Chaillu stated that he gave up the historical part of his argument and now 
relied chiefly on the archeological data. At the meeting of the Association 
last year his theory was under discussion, and in these circumstances it may be 
of interest to lay before the present meeting a short account of some remarkable 
remains recently brought to light on the coasts of Holland and North Germany, 
more especially in Friesland and the low-lying district northwards as far as the 
River Elbe, a geographical area which strikingly coincides with the traditionary 
cradle of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers. 
The antiquities in question are found in flattish mounds of varied extent, some- 
times covering many acres, which go under the name of Terpen in Friesland, 
Warfen in the district around Emden, and Wurthen in the Dithmarschen border- 
ing on the Elbe. 
Dr. Munro then gave a short description of the structure and contents of these 
mounds, and argued that the relics showed a remarkable similarity to Anglo-Saxon 
antiquities found in England. It is unnecessary to give an abstract of this com- 
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