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that of Southern Arabia round-headed. This brachycephaly is 

 due, at least in part, to Mesopotamian influence ; and the 

 interesting conclusion is reached that the round-headed element 

 in North Africa is due not to an infusion of the so-called Alpine 

 type of Europe, but to the immigration of these Arabian round- 

 headed people. 



Other papers in the Journal are : " Ancient Royal Hindu 

 Marriage Customs," by Pandit Vishwanath ; " Notes on Some 

 Beliefs and Customs of the ' Orang Dusun ' of British North 

 Borneo," by J. H. N. Evans ; " Some Ibo Burial Customs," 

 by N. W. Thomas ; and " Studies in Primitive Looms," by 

 H. Ling Roth. 



The American Anthropologist for the first half of 191 7 

 (vol. xix. pts. 1 and 2) contains various interesting papers. 

 " Similarities in Culture," by W. D. Wallis (in Part 1), a paper 

 continuing the never-ending discussion on borrowing versus 

 convergence as explanations of identities in culture, may be 

 specially mentioned. Wallis is a cautious supporter of the 

 convergence-theory. Other papers are : " Game Totems 

 among the North-eastern Algonkians," by F. G. Speck ; and 

 " Variations in the Glenoid Fossae," by L. R. Sullivan. 



Recent contributions to Man are mostly very brief, but a 

 paper by Dr. F. Romanet du Caillaud on " Burgundian 

 Switzerland " (November) should be mentioned. The author 

 thinks that most of the German Swiss are descended from Bur- 

 gunds, not from Alemans. 



