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Europe, a second is described as Hamitic, the third form being 

 a short brachycephalic people. Each island has a type of 

 prehistoric pottery peculiar to itself, owing to the absence 

 of intercourse already mentioned. Other papers in the same 

 journal are "Les Touareg du Sud," by Fr. de Zeltner; "The 

 Experimental Investigation of Flint-fracture and its application 

 to Problems of Human Implements," by S. Hazzledine Warren ; 

 and a number of shorter articles. 



It is announced in Man that the International Congress ot 

 Americanists which was cancelled last year owing to the war 

 is to be held at Washington next September, conjointly with 

 the Pan-American Scientific Congress. 



