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cast natives lived. * A great deal of valuable information will also 
be found in Moseley's Notes on the Challenger. 
Id April last an Anthropological Exhibition was opened in 
Moscow. This was promoted by the Imperial Russian Geographical 
Society, which largely contributed. We are so far without any 
details of this Exhibition; but from the short accounts it would 
seem to have been very successful, and will probably exert an im- 
portant influence upon the progress of the science. The Czarevich 
sent a very valuable contribution, and large quantities of ethnolo- 
gical specimens, craniological and pre-historic collections, tumuli 
excavations, and articles of a kindred nature were brought together. 
All were arranged under the direction of the Secretary of the 
Geographical Society, and divided into six sections — pre- 
historical, anthropological, medico-anthropological, photographical, 
ethnographical, and the history of the Russian races. The aim of 
the exhibition was stated to be, firstly, To contribute to the de- 
velopment of Anthropology as a science ; secondly, the foundation 
of an Anthropological Museum for the teaching of Anthropology in 
the University of Moscow ; and thirdly, to popularize the science. 
There can be no question but that exhibitions of this kind will 
have the desired effect — the knowledge of Anthropology will be 
extended, and the study popularized. 
Some of the communications made to the Anthropological 
Department at the recent meeting of the British Association were 
noteworthy. I may mention a paper by Dr. Hack Tuke on the 
Cagots, a despised outcast race, as you know, living in villages 
of their own in the south of France and adjoining countries. 
Their treatment has been abominable. Up to the time of the 
French Revolution they were compelled to live entirely apart 
from their fellow-men, in towns in separate parts, and in the 
country in villages of their own. They could do no work 
but the most menial, and they were obliged to wear particular 
clothing, so that they could not be in any way mistaken, and they 
had to enter churches by separate doors provided for them. The 
Revolution put them on a footing with other citizens, and the 
restrictions were removed ; but they are still regarded as things 
only to be tolerated. It has been supposed that they are the 
descendants of the Visigoths, who, after their defeat by Clovis in 
the ninth century, remained in France, and their complexions, and 
* Antliro. Review, April, 1865 ; Nature, vol. xviii. p. 664. 
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