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Three traders only have directly given to science the 

 benefit of their experience ; these are E. G. Edelfeld (1887), 

 E. Beardmore (1890), and W. Tetzlaff (1S92) ; but A. 

 Goldie has verbally given much information to travellers, 

 who have not duly acknowledged the source of their facts, 

 and Robert Bruce has been of great assistance to the present 

 writer. 



The Government officials connected with British New 

 Guinea have done lamentably little for anthropology, with 

 the exceptions of Hugh Romilly and Sir William Mac- 

 gregor. The latter, judging from what I have seen of his 

 writings and have read and heard about him, appears to be 

 a model administrator, and the sciences of anthropology, 

 botany, geography, geology, and zoology are greatly in- 

 debted to his energy and ability. 



In the following guide to the literature on British New 

 Guinea I begin at the west and finish at the coast boundary 

 of Kaiser Wilhelms-Land. I have also added a few refer- 

 ences to the German and Dutch possessions. 



The present writer has brought together practically all 

 that has been published, with additional information, on the 

 two tribes inhabiting the islands of Torres Straits, and he 

 will shortly bring out a monograph on these people which 

 will be published by the Cambridge University Press. The 

 craniological data are papers by Turner (1880) and Oldfield 

 Thomas, and the measurements by Ouatrefages and Hamy 

 in Crania EtJinica and by Flower in the Catalogue of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons. 



There can be little doubt that the islanders must be 

 regarded as essentially Papuans, though they are not typical ; 

 for example, according to some unpublished measurements, 

 they have massive skulls, on the border-line between mesati- 

 cephalic and brachycephalic, whereas the measurements of 

 fourteen Daudai skulls give a dolichocephalic index of seventy- 

 one. These results do not agree with those of Oldfield 

 Thomas in his excellent paper, but it is probable he was 

 dealing with some Daudai as well as island skulls. Ouatre- 

 fages and Hamy (pp. 207-210, 253-256) have drawn 



