Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 10Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1881 |
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Seite 82 - President, in the Chair. THE minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The following presents were announced, and the thanks of the meeting voted to the respective donors : — FOR THE LIBRARY.
Seite 336 - Government paid three times over for a certain piece of land — once to the occupiers from whom it was bought ; again to a tribe who claimed the title because their fathers were said to have conquered the inhabitants who knows how many generations ago ; and finally to a third party who claimed, because their fathers had been there to be conquered. After listening to a great deal of conflicting evidence on the question from the natives themselves, I am inclined to think that the soroqele is a surrender...
Seite 416 - From the ASSOCIATION. — Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Vol. V, No. 41. From the SOCIETY. — Journal of the Society of Arts, 1460, 1461. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. XLIX. From the EDITOR.—" Nature,
Seite 428 - Director, then read the following Report : — REPORT of the COUNCIL of the ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND for 1880.
Seite 305 - There is a stream in Saddle Island, or rather a pool in a stream into which if any one looks he dies ; the malignant spirit takes hold upon his life by means of his reflection on the water.
Seite 88 - The representation I carry in my mind of the numerical series is quite distinct to me, so much so that I cannot think of any number but I at once see it (as it were) in its peculiar place in the diagram. My remembrance of dates is also nearly entirely dependent on a clear mental vision of their loci in the diagram. This, as nearly as I can draw it, is the following :— Images of numerical series from Sir Francis Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty, first published in 1883.
Seite 122 - Islands," has given the actual measurements of thirty living individuals, fifteen of each sex ; from which he finds for the males an average height of 4 feet 10'4 inches, the maximum being 5 feet 1£ inches, the minimum 4 feet 7^ inches ; for the females an average of 4 feet 6'03 inches, maximum 4 feet 9 inches, and minimum of 4 feet 3'5 inches. The correspondence between the average heights of totally different series of individuals (in neither case very large) and arrived at by such different...
Seite 367 - The adulteration of some staple groceries," published in the First Annual Report of the State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts (1879).
Seite 91 - ... while if they are vivid and useful they increase in vividness and definition by the effect of habitual use. Hence, in adults, the two classes of seers and non-seers are rather sharply defined, the connecting link of intermediate cases which is observable in childhood having disappeared. These Forms are the most remarkable existing instances of what is called " topical " memory, the essence of which appears to lie in the establishment of a more exact system of division of labour in the different...
Seite 429 - Member. The former and present state of the Institute with regard to the number of Members are shown in the following Table : — The following are the names of the donors to the Library during the past year : — Dr.