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eral important questions, and that the 

 acts so far passed by Parliament have been 

 the cause of many benefits and of very 

 little visible inconvenience. 



The' president of Section G (engineer- 

 ing) is Mr. Charles Hawksley. No infor- 

 mation as to the subject of his address is 

 available, but the program of the gen- 

 eral work of the section shows that the engi- 

 neers are likely to have a very interesting 

 meeting. Apart from the papers to be 

 read, the various excursions to important 

 industrial works in the neighborhood, to 

 which reference has already been made, 

 should prove specially attractive to mem- 

 bers of this section. An interesting con- 

 tribution will be that by Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Crompton, E.E., C.B., on ' The 

 Problem of Modern Street TrafBc' This 

 paper is intended to open a discussion in 

 which municipal engineers, tramway engi- 

 neers, police officials, automobilists, and 

 others are invited to take part. A par- 

 ticular aspect of the general problem of 

 vehicular traffic will be dealt with by Mr. 

 J. Clarkson, in a paper on 'Steam Pro- 

 pulsion on Roads.' Mr. W. F. Goodrich 

 will have much that is instructive to say 

 on the subject of 'Refuse Destructors and 

 Power Production,' and, among other con- 

 tributions, will be papers by Mr. Bell, on 

 'Oil Fuel'; Mr. Woodhouse, on 'The New- 

 castle Power Works'; Mr. T. Pai-ry, on 

 'The Water Supply of South- West Lan- 

 cashire'; Dr. Campbell Brown, on 'The 

 Growth of Organisms in Water Pipes,' 

 and Mr. B. Hopkinson, on ' The Paralleling 

 of Alternators.' 



The address of Professor J. Symington, 

 of Queen's College, Belfast, who is this 

 year president of Section H (anthropol- 

 ogy) will deal mainly with the significance 

 of variations in cranial form, and will 

 criticize the view recently revived by Pro- 

 fessor G. Schwalbe that the fossil Nean- 



derthal skull cap belonged to a species of 

 Homo different from recent man. It will 

 also consider the relation between the ex- 

 ternal and internal forms of the cranial 

 wall. The papers accepted in physical an- 

 thropology include a study of the skulls 

 from Round Barrows in Yorkshire, by Dr. 

 W. Wright; papers on skulls from the 

 Malay Peninsula, by Mr. N. Annandale, 

 and on the physical character of the 

 Andamanese, by Dr. Garsin; a note on 

 Grattan's craniometrical methods, by 

 Professor Symington; and important re- 

 ports on Dr. C. E. Myers' work on the rank 

 and file of the Egyptian Army, on Dr. 

 W. H. R. Rivers' researches among the 

 Todas, and on Mr. Duckworth's investiga- 

 tions among the ancient and modern popu- 

 lations of Crete. The committee on an- 

 thropometric methods has a valuable re- 

 port to present, and that on the teaching 

 of anthropology will probably report ad 

 interim. Archeology will be unusually 

 well represented. Mr. Arthur Evans, Mr. 

 J. L. Myres and Mr. R. C. Bosanquet will 

 offer reports on this year's excavations in 

 Crete, Mr. J. Garstang and Mr. Currelly 

 on recent work in Egypt, Mr. G. Clinch on 

 'A Surrey Monument illustrative of Certain 

 Points in Stonehenge,' Mr. Annandale on 

 'Stone Implements from Iceland,' Dr. C. 

 S. Myers on 'The Ruins of Kharga in the 

 Great Oasis,' Mr. T. Ashly on 'Romaji 

 Work at Caerwent,' and Mr. Garstang on 

 'Ribehester,' while the usual report on the 

 Silchester excavations may be expected to 

 lead to some discussion. Professor Ridge- 

 way will read a paper on the 'Origin of 

 Jewelry.' General etlinography (with 

 the exception of Dr. Rivers' work on the 

 Todas) and folklore and comparative re- 

 ligion (with the exception of a paper by 

 Mr. W. Crooke on 'Islam in Modern India') 

 are as yet poorly represented, but this de- 



