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at the North than at the South, is answered by the fact that in northern cities his 
expulsion, owing to race-prejudice, from almost every competitive trade makes it 
increasingly difficult to earn a livelihood. In fifty-six great cities statistics show a 
greater death-rate than birth-rate, but on the cotton-fields in the South, where the 
Negro is gradually attaining proprietorship, he lives normally. Outside cities, 
85 per cent. of the race depend upon agriculture for support. Prevailing diseases, 
crime, with some details as to lynching, the economic status of the race, &c., were 
also dealt with. 
3. Report on Anthropometric Investigation in the British Isles, 
See Reports, p. 198. 
4. Report on Anthropometric Investigations among the Native Troops of 
the Egyptian Army.—See Reports, p. 207. 
5. Report on Anthropological Photographs. —See Reports, p. 222. 
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6. Report on the Age of Stone Circles,—See Reports, p. 197. 
7. Report on Archeological and Ethnological Researches in Crete. 
See Reports, p. 208. 
8. Report on the Lake Village at Glastonbury.—See Reports, p. 210. 
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. On Artificial Deformation of the Human Body in Africa, 
By Professor Dr. F. von Luscnan. 
Probably most of the deformations of the ears and the nose came to Africa from 
India; the painting of the eyes came from Arabia; and the trepanning of the 
skull (practised up to our own days in Djebil Aurés in the same way as it was 
practised by the old Guanches) is the same as that of the earliest prehistoric in- 
habitants of the Dordogne, and had its origin in Western Europe. Most, if not 
all, of the deformations and mutilations of the teeth seem to come from Indonesia, 
even those practised in the Western Soudan. Only the tattooing in relief, and 
perhaps also the deformations of the lips, might be at home in Africa. 
The whole study of artificial deformations is not only an interesting scientific 
speciality on the frontier boundaries between ethnography and physical anthrop- 
ology, but it may be of some importance also for the ultimate problem of anthrop- 
ology—for the history of mankind. 
2. The Mental Capacity of the Bantu. By Rev. Canon Crisp. 
3. Magato and his Tribe. By Wiuu1aM Grant 
