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higher intellectual centres in the hope of finding any anthropological teaching. 

 Here, at Oxford, if anywhere, we may expect to find it, and here, first among the 

 British Universities, have we seen, since the year 1883, among the list of the sub- 

 _iects taught the word ' Anthropology ; ' hut the teacher, though one of the most 

 learned of men in the subject the country has produced, still only bears the modest 

 title of ' Reader.' A prolessorshlp of Anthropology does not exist at present in the 

 British Isles, and even here the subject, though recognised as a ' special,' offers littla 

 field for distinction in the examinations for degrees, and has therefore never been 

 taken up in a thorough manner bj' students. Dr. Tylor's lectures must, however, 

 have done much to have spread an intelligent interest in some branches of Anthro- 

 pology, and have proved a valuable complement to the Pitt-Rivers collection, as 

 Lave also the courses which have been given by Mr. Henry Balfour upon the arts 

 of mankind and their evolution, one of which I am glad to see is announced among 

 the advantages oifered to the University E.xtension students at present with us. 

 Physical Anthropology has also been taken up by Professor A. Thomson, who, 

 I understand, gives instructive lectures upon it, open to the members of his class of 

 human anatomy. At the opposite end almost of the subject must be mentioned 

 the extension and organisation of the Ashmolean Museum under the care of Mr. 

 Arthur J. Evans, which has a bearing upon some branches of Anthropology, and 

 the foundation of the Indian Institute under the auspices of Sir Monier Monier- 

 Williams, which must give an impetus to the study of the characteristics of the 

 races of our great Empire in the East. Last, but by no means least in its bearing 

 upon the origin, divisions, and diffusion of races, is the world-famous linguistic 

 work of Professor Max Miiller and Professor Sayce, boih of whom have presided 

 over this Section at former meetings of the Association. 



Of the sister University I wrote thus in 1884 : ' In Cambridge there are many 

 hopeful signs. The recently appointed Professor of Anatomy, Dr. Macalister, is 

 known to have paid much attention to Anatomical Anthropology, and has already 

 intimated that he proposes to give instruction in it during the summer term. An 

 Ethnological and Archseological Museum is also in progress of formation, which, if 

 not destined to rival that of Oxford, already contains many objects of great value, 

 and a guarantee of its good preservation and arrangement maybe looked for in the 

 appointment of Baron Anatole von Iliigel as its first curator.' 



Ten years have pa.'sed, and it is satisfactory to know that the teaching of 

 Anthropology has not only been fairly established, but the subject has also found a 

 place in the scheme of University examination. The learned Professor of Human 

 Anatomy continues to take a wide view of his functions, giving a course during 

 the Easter term on the methods of Physical Anthropology, and also museum 

 demonstrations on craniometry and osteometr}', by the aid of a greatly increased 

 and continually augmenting collection of specimens. 'J'hose students who take 

 anatomy as their subject for the second part of the Natural Science Tripos have 

 both paper work and practical examination in .Anthropology, each man liaving a 

 skull placed in his hands of which lie is expected to make a complete diagnostic 

 description. For the first part of the tripos each candidate has one or more questions 

 on the broad general principles of the subject. IVofessor Macalister informs me that 

 he has always at least si.x men who go through a Tery thorough practical course 

 with their own hands. There has also lately beeii established a course of lectures 

 on the Natural History of the Races of Man, delivered during the Michaelmas and 

 I^ent terms by Dr. Hickson, of Downing College, and Baron von Hiigel gives a 

 course of museum demonstrations on the weapons, ornaments, and other objects in 

 the Ethnological Museum, which is open to all students, and of which many take 

 advantage. 



In London, owing to the chaotic condition of all forms of higher instruction, 

 which has been brought so prominently into notice by the imiversal demand for a 

 teacliing University (an aspiration which the labours of the late Gresham Com- 

 mission certainly seem to have brought nearer to realisation than ever appeared 

 possible before), all systematic anthropological teaching has been entirely neglected. 

 I'he great collections to which I have already alluded, that of arts and customs at 

 the liritish Museum, and that of osteological specimens at the Royal College of 



