IKANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 811 



9. The Report of the Prehistoric Inhabitants Committee. 

 See Reports, p. 549. 



10. The Seport of the Elbolton Cave Committee. — See Repoi'ts, p. 351. 



TUHSDAT, AUGUST 23. 



The following Papers and Reports were read : — 



1. The Formation of a Record of the Prehistoric and Ancient Pemains of 

 Olamorganshire. By Edwin Seward. 



Glamorgansliire possesses a considerable number of those traces of the existence 

 of man and his handywork which remain from the earliest historic and prehistoric 

 periods. In caverns and fissures of the mountain limestone clifl's of Gower, in 

 camps which crown their summits and those of the main ranges throughout the 

 county, in tumuli and barrows elsewhere, and in Roman villas and dwellings dis- 

 covered on the lower plains, are evidences of man through successive ages and 

 varying stages of civilisation. One feature of much interest is the number and 

 importance of ancient inscribed stones, many of which are still remarkable for 

 beauty and intricacy of design in spite of the careless or mischievous treatment to 

 which they have usually been exposed, even till very recently. In a district pos- 

 sessing heritages of such a kind, it is especially desirable that a systematic and 

 comprehensive means of registering each of these objects of value should be set on 

 foot and maintained, and that opportunities should be afforded for the further 

 investigating, recording, and classifying all known examples, whilst also offering 

 inducements and opportunities towards the discovery or efficient recognition of 

 fresh ones. 



Apart from a descriptive record, it is sought to indicate the nature and locality 

 of these remains on maps, so as to produce a defined but progressive view of them 

 as affecting, or as affected by, topographical conditions. Mr. Seward outlined the 

 preliminary steps taken for organising the work of recording, and described a pro- 

 posed method of utilising the smaller sheets of the Ordnance Survey for map 

 purposes, showing also what has been done in the locality towards compiling a 

 photographic survey of objects of interest, prehistorical and arch^ological. 



2. Instinctive Criininality : its true Character and National Treatment. 

 By S. A. K. Strahan, M.D. 



The instinctive criminal belongs to a decaying race, and is only met with in 

 families whose other members show signs of degradation. In fact, instinctive 

 criminality is but one of the many known signs of family decay. This is conclu- 

 sively proven by the fact that the criminal's parents and relatives invariably show 

 signs of decay, and that he himself has, in common with the idiot — which latter is 

 the lowest form of human development consistent with a continuance of life — such 

 grossly degenerate characters as a small, overlarge, and ill-sbapen head, paralysis, 

 squint, asymmetrical features, deformities ; a shrunken, ill-developed body ; 

 abnormal conditions of the genital organs ; liability to tubercular disease ; prema- 

 ture decay of the tissues ; large, heavy, misshapen jaws, outstanding ears, and a 

 restless, animal-like, or brutal expression. The instinctive criminal lacks the 

 moral sense as the idiot lacks tlie intellectual, and in both we find more or less 

 deep degeneration affecting the whole economy, physical, moral, and intellectual. 



Hereditary Character of Crime. — This has been known from veiy early times. 

 It was advocated and demonstrated by Aristotle, yet it is only recently that this 



