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SIR H. B. FRERE.-Laws affecting Civilized and Savage Life. 313 the last year or two, are the following : " On the Men of the Long Barrow Period," "On Excavations at Sigwell," and" On Human Remains at Cissbury," besides the part which he frequently took in our discussions, record of which has been published in our Journal, not to mention the assistance which he freely rendered to brother anthropologists whenever it was asked. To him we are indebted for the only scientific description which exists of crania of the stone age in this country, those of Cissbury and of the Long Barrows. Although his early training made physical anthropology his chief study, Professor Rolleston was an anthropologist all round ; in archooology and ethnology he took a deep interest and an active part. Archeologists were in the habit of submitting to him for identification animal remains found in excavations, where the date or place in sequence could be fixed, and from these he was gradually accumulating a store of information about the changes and distribution of breeds in pre-historic times, which, had he lived, would have led to important results. But apart from the great services which he rendered to science, and anthropology in particular, those who knew him will remember him chiefly for his fine chivalrous character, his ready wit, his earnest love of truth, and his straightforward method of dealing with the affairs of life. Nor was there ever a man more ready at all times to do justice to others. A proper notice of him will doubtless appear in our Journal, but, in the meantime, I think I may safely say that in no Society has he left behind him a larger number of friends than in the Anthropological Institute. The Right Hon. Sir H. BARTLE FRERE then read the following paper: ON the LAWS afecting the RELATIONS between CIVILIZED and SAVAGE LIFE, as bearing on the dealings of COLONISTS With ABORIGINES. By the Right Hon. Sir H. BARTLE FRERE, Bart., G,C.B., G.C.S.I., F.RS., &c. IN inquiring what are the permanent laws affecting the relations between civilized and savage life as bearing on the dealings of colonists with aborigines, the first question is that of continued existence of the uncivilized race. Is it possible for an uncivilized race to continue to exist as uncivilized, in the presence or immediate neighbourhood of a civilized race, equal or superior in numbers ? If they can, under what conditions and with what modifications is such continued existence possible or probable ? The possibility of such continued existence has been denied,