636 EEPORT— 1880. 



He repeated his observation that the Iberian wag of common origin with the other 

 ancient characters. Mr. Clarke referred to a Vei legend of Lake Zontori, to which 

 on the conquest of the country the aboriginal king and his warriors had retired, 

 aiid where their souls still dwell, and their songs are still heard. This is the 

 parallel of the legend of Lake Fuciuus, in Italy, and it had also Lydian connexions, 

 while Veil was in Etruria on one side of Rome, and Fucinus on the other. 

 Attaching to a lake Fuguene in New Granada was an allied legend. He showed 

 that the Vei incidentally supported the Turanian origin maintained by him for 

 the Runes and northern mythology and culture. 



9. Note mi a Cliilian Tumulus. By John Hallam Madge. 



10. India the Some of Gunpou^der, on Philological Evidence. By Dr. 



GusTAV Oppert. 



DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 



Chaieman op the Depabxment — F. M. Balfoue, M.A., F.R.S. 

 (Vice-President of the Section). 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. 



The Department did not meet. 



FRIDA T, A UG UST 27. 



The Chairman delivered the following Address : — 



In the spring of the present year, Professor Huxley delivered an address at the 

 Royal Institution, to which he gave the felicitous title of ' The Coming of Age of 

 the Origin of Species.' It is, as he pointed out, twenty-one years since Mr. Darwin's 

 great work was published, and the present occasion is an appropriate one to review 

 the effect which it has had on the progress of biological knowledge. 



There is, I may venture to say, no department of biology the growth of which 

 has not been profoundly influenced by the Darwinian theory. When Messrs. Dar- 

 win and Wallace first enunciated their views to the scientific world, the facts they 

 brought forward seemed to many naturalists insufficient to substantiate their far- 

 Teaching conclusions. Since that time an overwhelming mass of evidence has, 

 however, been rapidly accumulating in their favour. Facts which at first appeared 

 to be opposed to their theories have one by one been shown to afford striking 

 proofs of their truth. There are at the present time but few naturalists who do 

 not accept in the main the Darwinian theory, and even some of those who reject 

 many of Darwin's explanations still accept the fundamental position that all 

 animals are descended from a common stock. 



To attempt in the brief time which I have at my disposal to trace the influence 

 of the Darwinian theory on all the branches of anatomy and physiology would be 



