TKAXSACnONS Of SECTION U. — DETT. ANTHROrOLOGy. 609 



d. ^GITH0GNATHJ3. 



1. Celeotnorphfe 



2. Oypselomorphre 



3. CoracomorplifB 



3. Notes oil the French Beep-sea Exploration in the Bay of Biscay. By 

 the Rev. A. M. Norman, F.L.S. Incorporated with Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys' 

 Paper on the san\e subject. — See Reports, p. 378. 



4. Report on the 2Ltrine Zoology of South Decon. — See Reports, p. 160. 



DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Chairman' of the Department — F. W. Rttdler, F.G.S. (Vice-President of the 



Section). 



I 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 20. 

 The Chairman delivered the following Address: — 



After an ahsence of more than thirty years the British -Vssociation has again 

 assembled in South Wales. To the student of anthropology it is always refresh- 

 ing to visit a province of the United Kingdom in which the inhabitants still retain, 

 in large measure, their peculiarities of language and of race. But in that part of 

 the Principality which we are now ^ isiting, these characteristics have for many 

 generations been growing fainter and fainter. In fact the local circumstances 

 which render a meeting of the British Association possible are precisely those 

 cii'cumstances which tend to obliterate ethnical distinctions. The material pros- 

 perity of any locality naturally draws towards it a stream of immigration from less 

 prosperous districts, and thus produces an artificial mixture of population. If the 

 influx into Swansea had come only from the agricultural parts of Wales, there 

 would have been comparatively little ethnical confusion ; but, as a matter of fact, 

 all the large towns of Glamorganshire, such as Swansea, Cardiff, and Merthyr, 

 have received strong accessions to their population from -v arious parts of England 

 and of Ireland. The anthropologist would, therefore, be ill advised if he resorted 

 to any of these flourishing centres for the purpose of studying the typical Welsh- 

 man. 



Glamorganshire probably contains, at the present time, more than one-third of 

 the entire population of Wales ; yet the area of the county is but little more than 

 one-ninth of the total area of the Principality.' This concentration of the people 

 is due, directly or indirectly, to the gigantic development of those mining and 



' At the last census the population of Glamorgansliire was :ii)7,859, and that of 

 the entire Principality only 1,216,775. The area of Glamorganshire is estimated to 

 be about 547,070 acres, while tlie total area of Wales is said to be 4,722,323 acres. 

 1880, R R 



