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many who feel satisfaction in helping the cause of knowledge, in helping to remove 

 the opprobrium that the British Anthropological Society alone of those of the 

 world is lacking iu vitality, and in helping to prevent this country from fallino- 

 behmd all the nations in the cultivation of a science in which for the strongest 

 reasons it might be expected to hold the foremost place. It is a far more grateful 

 task to maintain, extend, and if need he improve, an existing organisation, than to 

 •construct a new one. I feel, therefore, no hesitation in urging upon all who take 

 interest in the promotion of the study of Anthropology to rally round the Institute, 

 and to support the endeavours of the present excellent President to increase its 

 usefulness. 



The following Report and Paper were read : — 



1. Report on the Exploration of the Caves of the South of Ireland. 



See Reports, p. 218. 



2. On the Stature of the Inhabitants of Hungary. 

 By Dr. Beddoe, F.B.S, 



The paper was based mainly on the facts gotten by KSrosi and by Scheiber, of 

 Bucharest, from the national recruiting statistics. The wTiter, from Kcirosi's 

 data, estimated the average stature of the fully grown Hungarian soldier at about 

 1,668 millimetres, or 5 feet 5f inches English. There is a good deal of difference 

 between the several races included in the returns, the Germans and Croats for 

 ^example, being taller than the Magj^ars and Roumanians. The citizens of Buda- 

 pesth, Stuhlweissemburg, and Raab are taller than the neighbouring country-folks 

 at least Scheiber found it so at the age of twenty. Similarly Quetelet found the 

 townsmen taller in Belgium, but in England the reverse is the case. In five 

 western counties (including Pesth), where the popidation is mainly Ma-n-ar the 

 mean stature at 26 years may be estimated at 5 feet 5-2 inches. ''" ' 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. The Viking's Ship, discovered at Sandefjord in Norway, 1880.' 

 By J. Haekis Stone, Af.A., F.L.S., F.G.8. 



The writer paid several visits to the ship and carefully examined her. He 

 also took four photographs of portions of the vessel. These, with diagrams made 

 from them, were exhibited to the Section. 



The paper professes to be nothing more than an account of the vessel, prepared 

 after the writer's visits. 



After alluding to the good state of preservation in which the vessel was found 

 and fixing— as near as possible— the probable date, by referring briefly to the ViMng 

 period, the writer shortly alludes to the Frithiof Saga, giving a few extracts 

 which bear upou ships for the purpose of showing (1) the feeling of the period 

 towards these vessels, and (2j also as explaining the careful and thorouo-h work- 

 manship so clearly evinced in this Sandefjord vessel. ° 



The writer states the reason why the vessel was found in a mound, namely 

 that a Viking was buried iu her, and describes the sepulchral chamber. 



The galleys depictedin the Bayeux tapestry were alluded to, and their shape 

 compared 'W'ith that of this vessel. 



' A full account of the vessel, by the same writsr, appeared in the November 

 number of Good Words for 1881. 



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