234 Anniiersary Address. 



"Fortunately the salmon disease disappeared from the river 

 earlier tliis year, and did not commit such havoc as in the pre- 

 vious season. Consequently many more marketable fish were 

 got, and fewer had to be killed or returned to the river. The 

 general condition of the fish has been excellent and the supply 

 to London double of last year." 



Anthropology, or the study of man, as we are sparingly 

 furnished with traces of his unwritten history and method 

 of life, although enveloped in mystery and obscurity will 

 always attract a share of our investigations. One of our 

 members, whose acquaintance I had the honour of forming 

 when I was very young, has published a large and hand- 

 somely illustrated volume, the result of many years devoted 

 to the examination of sepulchral mounds in the north-east 

 of England. The uncultivated moorlands, and numerous 

 camps and fortlets, which impart to North Northumberland 

 a share of its pristine characteristics, 6.nd have preserved 

 from destruction the tombs and mortuary relics of bygone 

 ages, furnished Mr Green well with a productive field for ex- 

 ploration. Traceable on the wide moors many tumuli are 

 yet unexamined, though I believe the remains have usually 

 decomposed by the influence of peat moss and vegetable life. 

 At one of the Club's meetings of this year we had an inter- 

 esting paper and photographs of several flint implements 

 found at Farnham near Rothbury. Though the ages of 

 stone, bronze, and iron occasionally overlap each other, these 

 implements can be classed stra'tigraphically, palseontologic- 

 ally, and archseologieall}', more espec'ally when found im- 

 bedded with the bones of the Urus or Reindeer of the 

 Quaternary period, or underlying the pine tree deepty 

 covered by moss in a Scandinavian peat bog. Tn " De 

 Natura Rerum " Lucretius says 



" Arma antiqua, manus, ungues, dentesque fuerunt," 

 " Et lapides, et item syl varum fragmina rami : '' 

 " Posterius ferri vis est, eerisque reperta, 

 " Sed prior seris erat, quam ferri oognitus usus." 

 "Flints," writes Professor Joly of Toulouse, "are found 

 scattered (jver the surface of the soil, or buried in its depths ; in 

 tlie heart of gloomy caves, or beneath the ruins of the most 



