clvi GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



Messrs. Holmes and Jackson among the rock-shelter struct- 

 ures, stone towers, etc., of Arizona and New Mexico. 



Europe. In the Belfast volume of the British Association 

 (p. 11G) is a most interesting abstract of Sir William Wilde's 

 address before the Anthropological Department, on the sub- 

 ject of the early races who peopled Ireland in consecutive 

 order, their remains still existing, and an inquiry as to what 

 vestiges of these different waves of population remain to the 

 present hour. 



In discussing the names of the rivers and peoples in Ire- 

 land, Hyde Clarke, before the same meeting, called atten- 

 tion to the similarity of many of them with those of the civ- 

 ilized tribes of North America. This w r as not due to the 

 Phoenician, but to the much earlier period of civilization 

 called the Sumir and the Accad of Babylonia, when the 

 world was of one official speech, and great monumental 

 cities were raised by people speaking allied languages in 

 Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Babylon, India, China, Peru, 

 and Mexico. 



Before the British Association this year the following 

 papers on European Archeology were read : 



Canon Rawlinson, " On the Ethnography of the Cymbri." 

 The authority of Caesar and Tacitus in favor of the German- 

 ic origin of this ancient race was set aside for the belief in 

 their affinity with the Celts. This elicited from Mr. Free- 

 man a warm eulogy on the historians in question. Dr. Bed- 

 doe and the Rev. J. Earle supported the paper. 



Professor Rolleston, " On the Long Barrow Period," which 

 he divides into three epochs. In the earliest, the dead w r ere 

 buried in chambers or galleries so constructed as to admit 

 of successive interments. In the next period the dead were 

 buried unburned in cists. In the third, cremation was prac- 

 ticed. 



W. Mortimer, " On the Crania of the Round Barrows of 

 the Yorkshire Wolds." 



"VV. Pengelly, F.R.S.,"On the excavation of Kent's Cave," 

 and Mr. II. H. Tiddeman on the "Victoria Cave." The pres- 

 ident of the section, Dr. T. Wright, commenting on the re- 

 ports, was of the opinion that no direct evidence had been 

 found that man existed in the British Isles previously to 

 the glacial period. Mr. Pengelly will deliver a course of 



