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the Babylonian, Hebrew and Greek legends, and he quoted the 

 Biblical story at length, separating it into its two component 

 elements. The Babylonian legend, it may be noted, was 

 derived from a Sumerian source, and was thus extremely 

 ancient. Mr. H. D. Skinner contributes to the same number of 

 the Journal the second instalment of his review of " The Evolu- 

 tion of Maori Art," and deals this time with pendants. Three 

 articles deal with different aspects of the ethnology of Papua. 

 These are " The Magic of the Kiwai Papuans in Warfare," by 

 Gunnar Landtman ; and " Baloma : the Spirits of the Dead 

 in the Trobriand Islands," by Dr. Bronislaw Malinowski, of 

 Cracow ; and the " The Kabiri, or Girara District, Fly River, 

 Papua," by Dr. A. C. Haddon. This Kabiri district is a swampy 

 area lying between the Fly River and the Aramia affluent of 

 the Bamu, and it is flooded for the greater part of the year. 

 The villages of the primitive natives are built on the low hillocks 

 which intersect the region, some protection from the damp 

 thus being obtained. Communication between the hillocks 

 is kept up by means of canoes. The Journal also contains a 

 short but highly interesting paper by R. S. Rattray describing 

 some archaeological discoveries which he made in Togoland, 

 under the title " The Iron Workers of Akpafu." 



As is so often the case, the book-reviews are some of the 

 most interesting features in recent numbers of Man. The re- 

 views are in many cases hardly less than short essays. In par- 

 ticular, a review by Prof. A. Keith of Os bom's Men of the Old 

 Stone Age, in the May number, should be mentioned ; and also 

 a review of In Far North-East Siberia, by I. W. Shklovsky, in 

 July, and another on Westervelt's Hawaiian Legends of Vol- 

 canoes, written by Dr. E. S. Hartland, also in the July number. 

 In Man for May Prof. T. E. Nuttall has an article on the Pilt- 

 down Skull, in which he attempts to adjudicate on the famous 

 controversy about that relic, without, however, entering into 

 any very profound details. On the whole, he inclines towards 

 Prof. Keith's views of the cranial features rather than towards 

 Dr. Smith Woodward's. In the same number Harold Peake 

 replies effectively to some criticisms of his paper on " Racial 

 Elements concerned in the First Siege of Troy," to which I 

 referred in these notes last October. 



Volume III. of Memoirs of the American Anthropological 

 Association includes some interesting papers, as will be seen 



