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paragraphs bearing on the subject from a work by Professor 

 Huxley of so late a date as 1890.* 



8. Mr. D. C. Pedris also offered some remarks criticising 

 Mr. Nell's Paper. 



9. Dr. Vandort, on behalf of Mr. Nell, offered an expla- 

 nation with regard to Mr. Nell's quotation from Dr. Caldwell 

 identifying Havers and Tiers as Sinhalese islanders, which 

 had been questioned by Mr. Corea at the previous Meeting. 

 Dr. Vandort waived his right of reply owing to the lateness 

 of the hour. 



10. His Lordship the Bishop declared the discussion 

 closed. 



11. A vote of thanks to the Chair concluded the pro- 

 ceedings. 



* The extract points out the uselessness of placing too great reliance 

 upon philology, and dealing with the ethnology of the Aryans, apparently 

 assigns them an European rather than an Asian habitat, and regards the 

 blondes of North- Western Europe as the purest type of Aryan. 



