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6. Jaunpori-Pathan, A.D. 1400-1500. 



7. Early Mughal, A.D. 1556-1628. 



8. Late Mughal, A.D. 1628-1750. 



Some very interesting polished stone implements from 

 Japan testify to the existence of a stone age at some period 

 in the history of that country. 



Africa. The establishment by the Khedive of a Museum 

 at Boular], near Cairo, in Egypt, and the successful labors 

 of M. Marriette Bey in collecting new and in arranging old 

 materials, have been the means of awakening a new interest, 

 and of facilitating greatly the labors in the study of Egypt- 

 ology. The works following up his collections are legion. 

 Among them we notice a "Memoir on the Comparative 

 Grammar of Egyptian, Coptic, and Tide," by Hyde Clarke, 

 Trubner & Co., 1874; a paper "On the Discovery of Stone 

 Implements in Egypt," by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., in the 

 journal of the Anthropological Institute, June 9,1874; and 

 another in the same number, bv Professor Richard Owen, 

 "On the Ethnology of Egypt." F. Chabas, the late distin- 

 guished Egyptologist, in his " Etudes sur l'antiquite histo- 

 rique d'apris les sources Egyptiennes et les monuments re- 

 putes prehistoriques," proposes to bring the light of modern 

 researches in Egypt to bear upon the problem of the antiquity 

 of man. Though there is no doubt that the papyri will clear 

 up many difficulties surrounding the origin of the present 

 European nations, the antiquity of the human race in Europe 

 rests rather on geological and paleontological grounds than 

 upon archeology. 



Polynesia. In Nature of September 17, 1874, is a notice of 

 a hieroglyphic sculpture and tablet from the Easter Islands, 

 and Mr. Thomas Croft, of Pa pieti, Tahiti, exhibited before the 

 California Academy of Sciences, November, 1873, photographs 

 of these exceedingly interesting- obi'ects. 



Professor Owen, in his Inaugural Address before the Eth- 

 nological Section of the Congress of Orientalists, says: "Zoo- 

 logical and geological evidence concur to point to a prehis- 

 toric race of mankind, existing generation after generation, 

 on a continent which, in course of gradual, non-cataclysmal, 

 geological change, has been broken up into insular patches of 

 land, and there such race is open to ethnological research and 



