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siolog}'. I do not doubt that it is yet destined, as dealing with the most complex 

 sequences of phenomena, to take the highest place among the sciences as a guide 

 to PhUosopliy. One cannot help noticing the increased importance now given to 

 Natm-al-History studies as a part of education ; and it is worth while to note that 

 it is most of all in Anatomy and Physiology that the close comrexions of matter 

 with mind are brought under review, — Physiology exhibiting the relations of our 

 own mental being to our bodies, and Anatomy revealing a body of organized Nature, 

 whose organization points to a source of beauty and order beyond. 



The people of Bristol do well to rally round their Medical School. They do well 

 to furnish it mth buildings suitable for the prosecution of all the Natural-History 

 studies which adhere to medical education ; and they do well to join with that 

 school a complete College of literature and science. Let us hope that they will 

 make it worthy of so wealthy and historic a city. But if they ■\^dll have their 

 medical school the success which in so flourishing a locality public enthusiasm 

 may well make it, and if they will have it aid as well as be aided by a school of 

 general education, let them follow the system latterly adopted in Oxford and 

 Cambridge, long carried out in the Universities of Scotland, and recognized, though 

 not in all instances sufficiently provided for, in Ireland. I^et Anatomy, human 

 and comparative, receive its place as an important and fundamental science. Let 

 thorough and adequate provision be made for its being taught as a science ; and 

 see that it do not, as in too many medical schools which shall be nameless, dege- 

 nerate to the etymological and original meaning of the word, a mere cutting up 

 of carcasses. 



Antheopologt. 



Address to the Department of Antliropology , By Geokre E,olle3ton, M.D., 

 F.B.S., F.S.A., Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physioloyy, Oxford, 

 Vice-President of the Section. 



Some few weeks ago Mr. James Pai-ker, of Oxford, invited me to visit your Somer- 

 setshu-e caves, in the company of the Warwickshire Natm-alists' and Ai'chaBologists' 

 rield Club. It struck me that I should do well, as I was to preside over the An- 

 thropological Department at this British-Association Meeting, if I tried to learn as 

 much as I could of the relics and of the sm-roundings of the Prehistoric inhabitants 

 of your neighbourhood ; and for this, as well as for other reasons, I gladly accepted 

 the invitation. During that pleasant midsummer excursion I was more than once 

 impressed with the similarity which its incidents bore to those of the undertaking in 

 which we are now engaged, and, indeed, to those of the study of Anthropology generally. 

 First, the oi'ganization of the expedition had entailed some considerable amount 

 of labour upon those who had charged themselves with that duty ; and, secondly, 

 a thorough exploration of the recesses and sinuosities of the several caves which we 

 explored devolved upon us not only a good deal of exertion, but even some slight 

 amount of risk ; for the passages and galleries along which we worked our way were 

 sometimes low and narrow, often steep, and nearly always slippery. Thirdly, the 

 outline of the regions explored bore quite ditiereut aspects accordingly as we lighted 

 them up or had them lit up for us in one or in another of several ditferent ways. 



If in any segment of these caves the outside daylight could anyhow find a zigzag 

 way down some shaft into the interior, that segment wore a general aspect more 

 comfortable to the eye, and so to the mind, than others not so illuminated. These 

 latter regions again varied greatly inter se, according to the various artificial means 

 employed for lighting them up. The means ordinarilj' used for this end made their 

 outlines look a little colder and harder than the reality itself, cold and hard though 

 this was ; whilst under certain other modes of illumination employed (it is true, only 

 occasionally, and for purposes of efl'ect, not ex necessitate) (he self-same outlines 

 looked somewhat Im-id. But, howsoever produced and howsoever afl'ectiug us, the 

 light was light nevertheless, and, on the whole, we preferred it a good deal to the 

 darkness. It is never well to press a metaphor too far nor too closely ; so I will 



