October 18, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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A. E. Jenks, Bureau of Ethnology, Washiugtoo, 

 D. C. 



John A. Just, Chemist, 116 West Castle street, 

 Syracuse, N. Y. 



Wm. D. Marks, The Art Club, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Lucius Herbert Merrill, Professor of Biological 

 Chemistry, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. 



Benjamin L. Miller, Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



Eobert D. Murraj^, M.D., Marine Hospital Service, 

 Key West, Fla. 



George J. Murdock, Mechanician and Inventor, 248 

 Sixth avenue, Nevpark, N. J. 



Eichard A. Parker, C.E., E.M., 4 P. O. Square, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Thomas S. Perry, 312 Marlborough street, Back 

 Bay, Boston, Mass. 



Wm. L. Prather, President of University of Texas, 

 1914 Nueces street, Austin, Texas. 



Walter Merritt Eiggs, Professor of Electrical En- 

 gineering, Clenison College, Clemson College, S. C. 



Fred W. Eobins, Superintendent of Schools, Beth- 

 lehem, Pa. 



George St. John Sheffield, Twin Elms Farm, Attle- 

 borough, Mass. 



Charles H. Shinn, Inspector of Experiment Stations, 

 University of California, Berkeley, Cal. 



Harvey F. Smith, Attorney-at-law, Clarksburg 

 W. Va. 



Norman W. Storer, Electrical Engineer, 6109 Howe 

 Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 



W. S. Sutton, Professor of Science and Art of Edu- 

 cation, University of Texas, 1812 Congress avenue, 

 Austin, Texas. 



E. A. H. Tays, Civil and Mining Engineer, San 

 Jose de Gracia, Sinaloa, Mexico. 



Alonzo P. Troth, Supervisor of Instruction in 

 Science, High School, LeadviJle, Colo. 



Andrew A. Veblen, Head of Department of Physics, 

 State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 



Wm. A. Wadsworth, Genesee, Livingston county, 

 N. Y. 



Dr. Walter F. Willcox, Prof essor of Economics, Cor- 

 nell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE AN- 

 THROPOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE 

 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE* 



I. 



Twenty-five years have passed since the 

 British Association met in Glasgow. This 

 is a long time to look back upon, and yet 



* Glasgow meeting, 1901. 



the period appears short when measured 

 by the great advance which has taken place 

 in almost all branches of knowledge. An- 

 thropology has shared in the general pro- 

 gress. The discoveries made within its 

 confines may not have been so startling, 

 nor yet have had such a direct influence 

 upon the material welfare of the people, as 

 in the case of other fields of scientific 

 study, but its development has been steady 

 and continuous, and it has grown much in 

 public estimation. 



At the Glasgow meeting of the Associa- 

 tion in 1876 anthropology held a subsidiary 

 position. It only ranked as a department, 

 although it gained a special prominence 

 through having Alfred Russel Wallace as 

 its chairman. It was not until several 

 years later that it became one of the recog- 

 nized sections of the Association, and at- 

 tained the high dignity of having a letter 

 of the alphabet allotted to it. But quite 

 independently of its official status it has 

 always been a branch of study which has 

 been accorded a large amount of popular 

 favor. The anthropological meetings have, 

 as a rule, been well attended, and the dis- 

 cussions, although perhaps on certain occa- 

 sions somewhat discursive, have never 

 lacked vigor or animation. Professor 

 Huxley, who presided over the Anthropo- 

 logical Department at the Dublin meeting 

 in 1878, ascribed the popularity of the sub- 

 ject to the many openings which it afibrds 

 for wide diflerences of opinion between the 

 exponents of its numerous branches, and to 

 the innate bellicose tendency of man. As 

 the representative of a country in which, 

 according to the same high authority, this 

 tendency is less strongly marked than else- 

 where, and of a race which has so frequently 

 and pointedly exhibited its abhorrence of 

 vigorous language, I trust that my presence 

 here as president may not react unfavora- 

 bly on the interest shown in the work of 

 the Section. 



