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entitled British New Guinea from Sir William Mac- 

 gregor's despatches ; he gives only a rdsumd of these, 

 omitting other people's labours. Mr. S. H. Ray has 

 studied all the available material on the languages of the 

 Possession. 



The foregoing works deal more or less imperfectly with 

 the whole or a considerable portion of the Protectorate. I 

 have not alluded to publications such as articles in encyclo- 

 pedias and the like, which are compilations from the less 

 recent literature, and I have omitted numerous books 

 and papers which are of little or no interest to anthro- 

 pologists. 



On analysing- the literature it is evident that most of 

 our valuable information is due to but a small number of 

 naturalists and missionaries. Amongst the former I need 

 only mention the names of Jukes, Macgillivray, D'Albertis, 

 and Finsch, and of the latter Gill, Lawes, and Chalmers, 

 have alone availed themselves of their unique opportunities, 

 Macfarlane has put only a very few facts on record, the 

 other British missionaries have done absolutely nothing 

 for science. A few observations were made many years 

 ago by the Marist missionaries on Woodlark Island, 

 and recently the Jesuit missionaries on Yule Island and 

 on the St. Joseph River have published some interesting 

 facts. 



Most of the expeditions undertaken for scientific pur- 

 poses, or as newspaper enterprises, have added very few 

 and in some cases no new ethnographical data. A few 

 travellers — Moresby (1876), Comrie (1876), W. Y. Turner 

 (1878), Stone (1880), Basil Thomson (18S9), Forbes (1890) 

 — have made small but valuable contributions to Papuan 

 ethnography ; but the bulk of those who have published 

 papers or books have made extremely few original observa- 

 tions. Two authors, "Captain Lawson " and L. Tregance, 1 

 have invented "facts," their books being entirely false! 



1 Adventures in New Guinea, the narrative of Louis Tregatice, a French 

 sailor, nine years in captivity among the Orangwoks, a tribe in the interior 

 ■vf New Guinea. Edited by Rev. H. Crocker : London, 1876. 



