clxx GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



i 

 Notes on the Moa-hunter Encampment; On the Identity of 

 the Moa - hunters with the Present Maori Race ; On Maori 

 Traditions; On the Discovery of a Cut Stump of a Tree giv- 

 ing Evidence of the Existence of Man in New Zealand at or 

 before the Volcanic Era. 



Dr. Barnard Davis contributed to the Dutch Academy of 

 Sciences an exceedingly valuable paper relative to the Tas- 

 manians. Their almost entire extinction within the last few 

 years makes their history a subject of painful Interest. 



Dr. Rolleston, in his opening address before the Anthropo- 

 logical Department of Section D, British Association, spoke 

 in congratulatory terms of the work of Dr. Carl Meinicke, 

 "Die Inseln des Stillen Oceans" (Leipsic, 1875), and the article 

 of the Rev. J. W. Whitmee in the February number of The 

 Contemporary Review (1873) on the Ethnography of Polyne- 

 sia. 



Rev. Wyatt Gill read a paper before the British Associa- 

 tion, Bristol, on the Traditions of the Hervey Islanders. 



In La Nature (February 15, 1875) is an article by Dr. E. 

 Hamy, entitled " Les Polynesiens et leur Extinction." He 

 also read a paper before the Royal Geographical Society 

 (October 21,1875) on the results of his researches on the geo- 

 graphical distribution of the human race in East Melanesia. 

 On the subject of extinction compared with ancient times, 

 see Professor Rolleston's address before mentioned. The de- 

 population of Fiji by the measles is one of the latest disasters 

 of this class. 



The artificial perforation of the skull among the South Sea' 

 Islanders is the subject of an article in the Bulletin cle la 3o- 

 ciete cV * Anthropologic (1874, p. 494), by A. Sanson. 



The Journal of the Anthropological Institute (July 5, 1875) 

 gives an abstract of Edwin Reed's abbreviated translation of 

 Dr. Philippi's work on Easter Island, published in Santiago 

 in 1873. 



No. 3 of Herbert Spencer's "Descriptive Sociology " is de- 

 voted to Types of Lowest Races, Negrito and Malayo-Poly- 

 nesian Races. 



III. DISCUSSIONS OF PROBLEMS. 



Anthropology is so dependent and so widely related that 

 the discussions which arise relative to it are almost innu- 



