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Asia. Dr. Ilalevy communicates to Ausland (November 

 10, 1874) an account of his journey through the liedschran ; 

 and Dr. Paul Langerhaus reported to the German Anthropo- 

 logical Society (1874) a trip among the Syrian Bedouins. lie 

 secured a number of photographs and skull measurements 

 from the noble tribes of Ad wan, Abbad, and Abudis, differ- 

 ing so materially from the Syrian Fellahin. 



Before the British Association, Dr. Leitner described an 

 ethnological and linguistic tour of discovery through Dardi- 

 stan, the chief result being to establish the existence of lan- 

 guages contemporary with the Sanskrit. 



In the report of the Belfast Meeting of Xhe British Associ- 

 ation (1874) is an abstract of a paper by Fred. Drew, F.G.S., 

 on the distribution of the races of man inhabiting the Jum- 

 mir and Cashmere districts. 



Sir Walter Elliott read a communication before the an- 

 thropological section at Bristol on the localities of the races 

 forming the present populations of India. The Koragars, a 

 leaf-wearing tribe on the west coast of India, were described 

 by J. Walhouse before the Anthropological Institute, Lon- 

 don. 



In a very interesting communication upon the Negritos of 

 India, before the International Geographical Congress, Dr. 

 Hamy showed the presence of this race of oceanic Negroes 

 of short stature on the Gangetic peninsula. With great eru- 

 dition he proved that the Negritos ought to occupy a large 

 space of this territory, and that they have been little by lit- 

 tle dispersed and almost annihilated by their invaders. M. 

 Quatrefages followed on the same theme, drawing atten- 

 tion to the isolated groups of Negritos as distinguished from 

 the compact Papuans, pointing to the probability of their 

 having been the ancient inhabitants, and to their dispersion 

 by other races. 



Ilerr Jagor reported to the German Anthropological Soci- 

 ety his ethnological tour in India, in which he had been lib- 

 erally patronized by the Prussian government. A table of 

 the races of Northern India is given by Louis Itousselet. 



Mr. Bertram Ilartshorne read before the British Associa- 

 tion at Bristol a paper of the most thrilling anthropological 

 interest on the Weddas of Ceylon. 



The Andamanese were the theme of a communication to 



