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and Danish. The address is one of the most interesting which 

 Mr. Smith has ever published. A paper on a very different 

 subject is contributed to these Proceedings by the Hon. Secre- 

 tary of the Society, Mr. W. G. Clarke. This is entitled, " The 

 Icknield Way in East Anglia." The paper is a detailed study 

 of the eastern section of the famous ancient highway. The 

 Icknield Way clearly ante-dates the Roman occupation, and, 

 though it was used by the Romans, it was not remade by them. 

 " There is ample evidence," says Mr. Clarke, " that the East 

 Anglian portion was an important highway in Saxon times, 

 and it so continued throughout the Middle Ages, remaining 

 one of the chief highways into Norfolk from the west and 

 south-west until the end of the seventeenth century, when it 

 was superseded by turnpike roads." Mr. Clarke believes that 

 the way dates from the latter part of the Neolithic period. 



A paper which throws much light upon the primitive men- 

 tality of the Lapps as recently as last century is to be found 

 in Folk-Lore, vol. xxix, No. 3 (Sept. 191 8). This article is by 

 Charles J. Billon, and is entitled, " Some Mythical Tales of the 

 Lapps." Most of the tales in question, as also many others, 

 were obtained from a certain Pastor A. Fjellner, of Sorsele in 

 Lappmark, who was born in 1795. He lived to a great age, 

 and in his declining years dictated folk-tales and folk-songs 

 to various scholars, including Donner, the author of the work 

 Lieder der Lappen. 



As is now well known, much has been discovered about 

 the ancient Hittites during the last twenty years. Those 

 interested in these people, who were in truth one of the most 

 powerful nations of antiquity, may be referred to an article in 

 the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, January 191 9, which 

 is by Prof. S. J. Crawford, and is entitled, " Decipherment of 

 the Hittite Language." The great discoveries of Dr. Fried- 

 rich Hrozny, of Vienna, proved that the Hittites spoke a 

 language of the Indo-European group — and belonging to the 

 Western division of that group. Hittite appears, in fact, to 

 have been closely related to Latin. 



The following papers on Physical Anthropology may be 

 recorded : 



In the American Journal «f Physical Anthropology, vol. ii, No. 1. — " Hair 

 Colour of the Italians," by F. Boas ; " Changes in Fetuses due to Formalin 



