Fifth General Meeting, Friday Evening, 

 December 2nd, 1910 



Lymnn Xe^"-, B.A., President, prej^idiug. 



Present, the Eice-cutive Com^il and audience of fully 

 100, 



TwOi members elected. 



Five applications for memberehip presented and passed 

 on for election. 



The general business being completed Mr. \V. A. Child, 

 Esq., Ph.B., M.A., was introduced and at once proceeded 

 with his subject, Some Notes on Ethnology. 



NOTES ON ETHNOLOGY. 



By W. A. Child, Ph.B., M.A. 



This lecture was illustrated by over a hundred pictures taken by 

 the speaker, and to these it owed perhaps its chief interest. Unfor- 

 tunately only a few of these could be printed. 



For the last ten years the writej:" ha^ been studying the 

 different races of men and their origin and peculiarities, in 

 various j^arts of the world. He has pursued this study in 

 travels extending over GO,(X)0 or 70,000' miles, in fact in 

 5very continent but Australia. He has studied the different 

 races in connection with their history, their origin and their 

 physical peculiarities, and has taken a great many pictmes. 

 to illustrate the study. In study mg the various books on 

 the subject, the writer has found a vast confusion of con' 

 flicting theories and opinions. 



Every writer must have his own pet theory of tho 

 origin of certain races. In many cases the so-called statigr 

 tics ajre entirely a.fe variance. 



One great scholar will build up an elaborate theory of 

 the orioin of a certain race, all based on the assumption that 



