New-York tribune., 1867-10-03
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION MEETINGS IN
DUNDEE.
From Our speelal Corresponeen.


as they might here be named. finer III England
Built of stone. lofty and ornamented with sort OIL
lantborn tower. several of tho Dundee mills are
really noble structures. There are several really
cheerful school-houses, end in front of in the
worst part of the OveEgae there stone seats for
passengers TO rest upon and children to play upon
md tables for porters to rest their burdens upon
do not know the like of so much public consideration
and kindness to juveniles in England. The personal
poteness in which the Scotch excel the English
extends to Dundee. The moment you cross the
borCsr and are in the hands of Scotch rawayoicias
you find questions answered with scrupuOus care
Persons i'm the streets will direct you and take trouble
to do It. and "lct you see" the place you WANT that
is they will 60 with you and point it out An omnl-
bus conductor will consult your wants as though
YOU were one Of his family, and takes as much
trouble with the ragged natedfooted boy or GIRL as
with the gentleman or lady. If they did not drhh
whisky the Scots wOuld be one of the amiable races
Mr.. Thomas Baylcy Potter, NJ. +. for ROchdaIe, VINO
succeeded Mr. Golden. and who IS known III America
as Chairman of the Emancipation Society, mas seat
at Pitnacrce Balginy, Dunkcld, near here ana John
Bright NJ F.. is his guest at tins time HAD III not
Lecn so near the close of protected and fatguing
sitting of Parliament, IL ls not unlikely lnat lhe
Association might have counted the great politicah
In is5S the Association met in Hull, which has a
population equal to Dundee. Only @S members were
obtained Liverpool IN 1913, ylcucu DllJ lo-u ltUl-
bers: Leeds in 1855 but 40; Birmingham, in lSt.5.
only 11g7; whIic Dundee has given a total OF ZOO.
The British Association has held greater meetings
than this Dundee The Newcastle-0n, yne meet
ing of 1868 gave nearly 800 members and associates,
including upward of 1900 ladies. Nevertheless,
Dundee must be considered to have done wonueis'
when its extreme distance from the metropolis Is
taken into account Science has, beyond all ques-
ton, devoted friends in Dundee and It's nelghb0r-
hood. Beside the inhabitants turned out TO see the
philosophers aS though they were new race OF
people and in some places the populace cheered them
as they would witches-to avert the evil eye
The discussions of the Association are Of some
moment but no adequate preparation is made by the
Association for reporting them. Better things are
said in debate than occur in any papers and 1t Is TO
be regretted that the floating and spontaneous piO-
sOphy is moi recorded. The papers" read however,
have not been without value. The BIOLOGISTS have
rich cavern IN Devonshire, called ,kents Cavern
out of which they have produced flint Instruments
and ornaments of such manifest workmanship mat
no doubt now remains that man Is very antique
animal indeed, and existed cOtempOraTy with AMI
indeed, than even tradition extends. Mr.: Pengeily
read his paper with furious energy and Sir Charles
Lyell confirmed his conclusions
A BarOnet tinctured with heTesy goes n long way
here to make it acceptable, and Sir John Lubbock
produced sensation by an exhaustive paper IN Wlch
ages are merely degcnerates from race OF hlgDer
civilization preceding them. Sir John proved that
the earliest men must have been absolute barbaflaDs
Sir Roderick Murchison set up feeble defense of
the Mosaic man, but was eompelIed 10 adunt me
force of the arguments and facts against the exist
new proposition that the primitive condition OF
man was one of utter barbarlsm" Dr. hdChaIdS0n
in the department Of Physiology established that III
case of death 10y rcdamp, the miners die fanelessy,
and that the best restoratves for the rescued eX
posuro to heated air and feeding with warm milk
alcoholic drinks doing harm In the economic sec
tion Prof Rogers proposed that the endoyments for
education in England should be inquired into con-
trolled and applied to national uses. The revenues
OF M o pS s Se be he
endowments of England amounted TO million and
a half of money annually: strong opinion was eX-
pressed that these funds should be employed for the
purposes of public instruction. Mr.. {. Z. Maxwell
read paper the confectionery of Dundee. 1t is
pity table not laid out for the Section to taste
it. Such specimens found their way into the sole
Refreshment Room opened, would have excited the
dsdan and impaired dyspepsia TO Norway rats.
Sir David Brewster gave proof of his recovery by
% spondence SV between Pascal and Newton. Prof Hrst
stated that NJ. Chaseles who sends the correspond
encs to England, declines to communicate how 1T
came into his possession It's authenticity has there
fore to be determined by internal evidence, and this
Sir David Brewster declares to be wholly against ITS
authenticity Newtons alleged Letters are IN French
which he did not know enough of to write it at any
time in his life, and the Letters begin on profound
questions at a date when Newton was boy, flying
Kites and eating apples instead OF phiosophlzng on
their fall and of the Letters VOWS eternal
gratitude" which Sir David saysno Englishman ever
vowed be felt. The decision come to was that the
Letters clever foTgeIes and limitations and nearly
80 different types of calligraphy The Pascal Letters
are apparently in Pascals handwriting
Sir John Bowring, speaking OF China, which he
personally knows from long residence IN II officially,
declared that by education, If we apply the future
of that immense Empire. can be indefinitely raised
The Chinese have all the machinery and capacity for
knowledge-they want the thing itself. Even their
opium-eating is preferable to our spirt-drinking.
There is a set of Negro DepTecatOrs who Infest the
Association and bear the name Of AnthropOlogists.
The Science of Man is their proper study and the
leaders, Dr. Hunt and MT. Carter Blake, are clever,
energetic mea but during the American war some OF
the members gave an antnegro twist to the science
AT the Newt -CsstleupOn-1yne meeting In 1853, Dr.
Blake read paper on the "Syndactylous Condltl0n
of the Hand in Man and the AnthTopold Apes" DR..
Rolleston the Oxford Physiologist said the reader
and his friends responsible for paper IN The
[diaLuTeh Rcricr which stated that the muscle that
bound the great toe in the ape also fiexOr or
bender of the other toes, whereas IN the human foot i
was single muscle the effect of which was illus;
trated in the pirOutte of the dancer" Now, he and
Dr. Emblcdon had proposed an anatomical
demonstration Of the loot and hand OF the
ape by which any ono could see that
knew the tendon of the great toe sent out branches
to the other toes and so far the foot OF man resem
bled exactly the foot OF the anthropoid ape. DR..
ROesOn worked part of the night to dsSect the foot
of the ape, aud thus confnted and confounded the
obians, demonstrating that as far as
the anthroped ape might pirouette like Iaglioni or
Ellsler; and that no comparison between the negro
and the ape (which was intended could be made 10
the disadvantage OF the black man. Next, when the
Confederate AnthrOp0l0gists," as The Naccdstle
Chronicle named them, discOursed npon the inferi-
ority OF the cOlored races, William Craft, who hap
pened TO be present, set up to speak, and ~ he
was far bandsomcT man and better speaker than
Mr.. Carter Blake, the Section voted that far rs
these specimens went the colored the superior
race. This year the Anthropologists made a great
noise because the Association had refused them
subsection TO themselves. The Importance Of the
Science of Man deserves Section and IL at last
conceded to DR.. Hunt.
Mr.. David Pagc of Edinburgh, the geOlogist, same
who reported that he revised the proofs Of the
celebrated book the Nestiges Of Creation as it
passed through the Chambers Office, came down
TO help the anthropologsts lie and DR.. Hunt have
been made the subject OF the following viyacious
lines in The Edinabaryh Daily RCUac more viyacious
r1ian brilliant, but they illustrate feeling peculiarly
Scottish
David P--ge and Doctor HIT
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