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Mr. Gilbert inquired whether the story was regarded as a myth, 

 or whether it belonged to the proper folk-lore of the tribe. 

 Mr. Kinman thought that it was not believed in as a fact. 



Forty-Ninth Regular Meeting, January 3, 1882. 



Dr. Robert Fletcher read a paper entitled Paul Broca ; His Life 

 and Work in Anthropology. 1 



Dr. Antisell inquired whether the report was true that Paul Broca 

 died of internal aneurism. 



Dr. Fletcher replied that this was not developed by the autopsy 

 and was a mere supposition. 



Prof. Mason spoke of a letter he had once received from Broca, 

 in which he advised American anthropologists to confine their 

 investigations to their own country as the most promising field of 

 research. 



Dr. Antisell remarked that Broca was the first to observe the 

 perforated skulls. 



Dr. Fletcher said that he had treated this subject specially in a 

 paper read at a previous meeting, which accounted for his touching 

 so lightly upon it in the present one. 



Prof. Mason asked whether it could be considered as the estab- 

 lished opinion that the faculty of speech is located in the third 

 frontal convolution of the brain. He said that he had heard both 

 Dr. Otis and Dr. Woodward speak very skeptically about it, and 

 cite a case in which this lobe was carried away entirely, and the 

 man talked more than before. 



Dr. Fletcher replied that there was some conflicting evidence on 

 the subject, but that the doctrine had recently gained ground. He 



1 " Paul Broca and the French School of Anthropology ; : ' in " The Saturday 

 Lectures," delivered in the Lecture Rocm of the U. S. National Museum under 

 the auspices of the Anthropological and Biological Societies of Washington, in 

 March and April, 1882; Boston, D. Lothrop & Co., 18S2 ; Washington, Judd & 

 Detweiler, 1882, pp. H3-142; also separate, as Saturday Lecture No. 6. 



