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Cephalodiscus, n.g. 



Cwncecium, consisting of a massive irregiilarlj-'braucliGd fucoid secretion, hispid 

 with long spines of the same tissue, and hone^ycomhed tlivoughout by irregular 

 apertures, channels, and spaces in which the separate and independent polypides 

 occur. 



Lophophore, richly plumose, with an enormous buccal shield and oral lamella, 

 the mouth opening between them. Anus on the anterior dorsal ]irominence be- 

 hind the plumes. Two very large eyes abutting on the ovaries. The homologue 

 of the funiculus is short and quite free at the end, and, moreover, serves as the only 

 site for the buds. 



7. On an Instrndional System of Arrangement in Provincial Museums. 

 By F. T. MoTT, F.B.G.S. 



DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Chairman of the Depaetmes^t — Professor W. Boyd Dawkixs, M.A., F.R.S., 

 F.S.A., F.G.S. (Vice-President of the Section). 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 24. 

 The Chairman delivered the following Address : — 



On the Present Phase of the Antiquity of Man. 



In taldng the chair in this department of the biological section of the British 

 Association, two courses lie open before me. I might give an address which 

 should be a histoi'y of the progress of anthropology during the last year, or I might 

 devote myself to some special branch. The swift development of our young and 

 rapidly growing science, which embraces within its scope all that is known, not 

 merely about man, but about his environment, in present and past times, renders 

 the first and more ambitious course peculiarly difficult to one, like myself, labouring 

 under the pressure of many avocations. I am therefore driven to adopt the second 

 and the easier, by choosing a subject with which I am familiar, and which appears 

 to me to be appropriate in this place of meeting. I propose to place before you the 

 present phase of the inquiiy into the antiquity of man, and to point out what we 

 know of the conditions of life — though our knowledge of them is imperfect and 

 fragmentary — under which man has appeared in the Old and in the New Worlds. 

 The rudely chipped implements left by the primeval hunters iu the beds of gravel of 

 Hampshire and Wiltshire, and along the shores of Southampton Water and else- 

 where, are eloquent of the presence of man iu this district at a time when there was 

 no Southampton Water and the elephant and the reindeer wandered over the site of 

 this busy mart for ships ; when the Isle of Wight was not an island and the River- 

 drift hunter could walk across from Portsmouth to Oowes, with no obstacle ex- 

 cepting that offered by the rivers and morasses. I propose to enter upon the 

 labours of Prestwich, Evans, Stevens and Blackmore, Codrington, Read, Brown, 

 and other investigators in this country, and to combine the results of their 

 inquiries with those in other countries, and with some observations of my own 

 which I was able to make in 1880, during my visit to the United States. 



