The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-07 00:00:00

Anthropological Soc-ety.

At the meeting of the Anthropological Society
yesterday evening two papers were read on the best
means to be adopted for the measurement of skulls.
In one of the papers, read by Mr. Higgins, the
geometrical method of measurement was advocated,
and an apparatus was exhibited by which the out-
lines of a skull, placed in various positions, may be
accurately drawn on glass, and thence transferred to
paper. The advantages of this plan of measurement
were fully pointed out, and it was stated that the
geometrical system has been adopted as the most
correct mode of delineating the figure of the moon
and of the other heavenly bodies. In the second
paper, read by Mr. Westley, a method of perspec-
tive drawing was recommended, as giving a better
representation of the real character of the skullthan
a series of separate outlines. A long discussion took
place on the two papers, in which Mr. Bendysche,
who was in the chair, the Rev. Dunbar Heath, Mr;
Fraser, Dr. Gibb, and other gentlemen took part.
A third paper, on certain " simious" skulls, with
special reference to a skull from Louth Abbey, in
Ireland, was read by Mr. Carter Blake. The skull
was supposed to be that of a monk of the 11th or
12th century, and it presented most of the low cha-
racters of the celebrated Neonderthal skull, from
Germany, which was conceived by the advocates of
the theory of progressive development to be the
missing link" between man and the ape. Mr.
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Blake pointed out the peculiarities of the skull
which had been presented to the society, and
said that it was an abnormal formation. M.
Pruner-Bey, the distinguished French anthro-
pologist, considers that the Neonderthal skull,
so far from being the missing link, bears a re-
semblance to the normal Celtic skulls, and the
one exhibited, when compared with a cast of
the German skull, appeared to bear out that
opinion. The peculiarities in the skull from
Louth Abbey were attributed by Mr. Blake to pre-
mature ossification of the sutures in early life, and
the same cause, he thought, might be assigned to
the formation of the skull of the assumed missing
link. He expressed much regret that such an ab-
normity should ever have been put forward as inch-
eating a connection between man and the lower
animals.
After a brief discussion of the paper the meeting
adjourned.

DEATH OF A HORSE FROM HYDROPHOBIA.-i
horse, belonging to a gentleman of Mooriown, near Ring-
wood, was bitten by a dog about three months ago. The
dog was killed at the time by a kick front the horse, and
no further notice was taken of it. On Friday, however,
the animal was seized with symptoms of madness, con-
tinually biting and tearing the leg that had been bitten by
the dog. The animal became so violent in a few hours
that it had to bo pegged down in a field, where it shortly
afterwards died. .
[AnyznTiszittErvr.]—That the fearful anneal mortality of
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Routh, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and
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111160.—BeWare of OPuricoui Imitations.