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refers, — the instinctive love of a man for his own people. Mere 

 clannishness would become developed, in the author's opinion, 

 into " race-instinct " and finally into " inter-species aversion." 

 In this connection, Prof. Keith mentions the separate 

 races of the three great apes which are now known to exist ; 

 and he describes the numerous and very small social groups 

 into which the hill-tribes in Borneo and the aborigines in 

 central and other parts of Australia are split up. The longest 

 contribution to this number of the Journal is an article by H. J. 

 Fleure and T. C. James on " Geographical Distribution of 

 Anthropological Types in Wales," in which many instructive 

 details are given. Harold Peake also writes an interesting, 

 though highly speculative, essay on " Racial Elements con- 

 cerned in the First Siege of Troy." This capture of Troy took 

 place about a thousand years before the ever-famous siege 

 described in the Iliad. This city, known to archaeologists as 

 Hissarlik II. (the city of Laomedon being Hissarlik VI.), was 

 almost completely destroyed, and the author comes to the 

 conclusion that the conquerors and destroyers were members 

 of the aggressive Nordic Race, whilst the conquered defenders 

 were a brachycephalic people. Other papers in this number 

 of the Journal are : " Notes on the Anthropometry of some 

 Central Sudan Tribes," by P. A. Talbot; " Evolution in Maori 

 Art," by H. D. Skinner ; " The Evolution of the Earliest Palseo- 

 liths from the Rostro-Carinate Implements," by J. Reid Moir ; 

 and " Some Votive Offerings to the Venetic Goddess Rehtia," 

 by R. S. Conway. 



The magazine Man for the first three months of 191 7 

 contains several interesting articles, including " The Transport 

 of the Coconut across the Pacific Ocean," by Charles Hedly (in 

 January), " Trans-Pacific Migrations," by Professor Hrdlicka 

 (in February), and " The Evolution of the Rostro-Carinate 

 Implement from the Primitive Kentian Plateau Implements," 

 by J. Reid Moir (in March). 



