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tongues ; and Greek and Latin autliors ought to be as familiar to the English 

 reader as Milton or Macaulay. To say that because it is impossible in a business 

 education to give several years to a working knowledge of ancient languages, that 

 therefore all thought written in those languages shall be a sealed book, is pedantry 

 run mad. A few months, or even weeks, on translations will at least open the 

 mind, and give an intelligent sense of the variet}' and the standpoint of the intel- 

 lect of the past. And such a course is certainly better than the total ignorance 

 which now prevails on such lines where the classics are not taught. 



What seems to be the most practical course would be the recognition of civili- 

 sation or social life as a branch of general reading to be stimulated in schools, and 

 encouraged by subsequent inquiry as to the extent to which it is followed and 

 understood, without making it an additional fang of the examination demon. 



The books required for such reading should cover the life of Greece, Rome, 

 Babylon, Egypt, and Mexico in ancient times ; and China, India, Persia, Russia, 

 Spain, and one or two low civilisations, such as the Andamans and the Zulus, in 

 modern times. Neither histories nor travels are wanted for this purpose ; but a 

 selection of the literature which shall most illustrate the social life and frame of 

 the community, with full explanation and illustrations. We need not to excite 

 wonder, astonishment, or disgust ; but rather to enable the reader to realise the 

 daily life, and to live in the very minds of the people. Where no literature is 

 available, a vivid study of the nature of the practical working of their civilisation 

 should take its place. 



Such is the practical scope of anthropology in our daily life, where it needs 

 as much consideration and will exercise as great an influence as any of the other 

 subjects dealt with by this Association. 



The following Papers were then read: — • 



1. On a Recent Discovery of the Remains of the Ahorifjinal Inhabitants of 

 Jamaica. By Sir \V. H. Floaver, K.C.B., F.R.S. 



2. On Skulls of Neolithic Invaders of Egypt. 

 By Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L., LL.D. 



'"""^ 3. On Neolitliic Invaders of Egypt. 

 By Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L., LL.D. 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 



The following Papers and Reports were read : — ' 



1. Stone Imjdements in Somaliland. By H. W. Seton-Karb, 



My first discovery of flint chipped spear-heads, knives, and scrapers was in the 

 winter of 1893-4, on my return to the coast from lion-hunting in the interior. A 

 few of those I then picked up are now in the British Museum ; a fevf I gave to the 

 Earl of Ducie's collection, and the remainder I retained for myself. This winter, 

 1894-5, on my return from lion-hunting I again traversed, without halting, the 

 district to which they appear to me to be confined, and obtained several thousands 

 by diligently searching for them in those places where my previous experience sug- 

 gested to me that they would probably be found. Of this large number, however, 

 only about one hundred are really symmetrically chipped as spear-heads. 1 also 



