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DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Chairman of the Department.— E. B. Tylor, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S. 

 (Vice-President of the Section.) 



[For Mr Tylor's Address see p. 381.] 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 21. 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. On the Cagots. By D. Hack Tuke, M.D., F.P.O.P. 



1. The Cagots are not the descendants of the Goths ; they are not a distinct 

 race, but a despised class among the people of the country in which they live. 



2. They are not more subject to goitre or to cretinism than the inhabitants in 

 their vicinity ; in short, cagotism and cretinism are in no way allied. 



3. The present representatives of the Cagots are now recognised by tradition, 

 and not by their features, and are not distinguished by any peculiar mental or 

 physical disorder, except when residing in an unhealthy locality. 



4. Although nothing like leprosy or leucoderrna has for long affected the Cagots, 

 and no one on the spot regards them in this light, there is evidence to show that 

 they were originally either lepers labouring under a particular variety of leprosy, or 

 were affected with leucoderrna ; the form of the affection accounting for their being 

 regarded as in some respects different from ordinary lepers, though shunned in the 

 same way. 



5. Many were no doubt falsely suspected of leprosy in consequence of some 

 slight skin affection. Others again, in later centuries, were members of families 

 in whom the disease had died out. 



2. Evidence of the Existence of Palceolithic Man during the Glacial Period 

 in EastAnglia. By Sydney B. J. Skertchly, F.G.S., E.M. Geological 

 Survey. 



The object of this paper is chiefly to record the sections in which the author 

 has discovered palasolithic implements beneath the chalky boulder clay in East 

 Anglia. 



The beds which yield the implements are a series of loams, clays, and sands, to 

 which the author has given the name of Brandon Beds. They occur at the top of 

 the Middle Glacial Series of Messrs. S. V. Wood, jun., and F. W. Harmer, and 

 underlie the Chalky Boulder Clay or Upper Glacial of the above-named authors. 



They have yielded paleolithic implements in many places, but only those will 

 be described in which the Chalky Boulder Clay overlies the Brandon Beds at the 

 present time. 



Mildenhall— l$ea,r Mildenhall, on the River Lark, in Suffolk, two sections have 

 yielded implements. They are at Warren Hill and Mildenhall Brickyard. 



The section at Warren Hill is as follows : — 



Sandy soil, &c. 



1. 



2. 



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4. 

 6. 

 6. 



Chalky Boulder clay 

 Gravel 

 Loamy clay . 

 Boulder clay 

 Chalk . 



