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Migrations of Early Culture." The paper is of considerable 

 length, and deals in detail with the distribution of different 

 types of ships. As an instance of the manner in which 

 primitive peoples may migrate vast distances by water, Prof. 

 Elliot Smith cites the case of the populating of the Polynesian 

 Islands. A new paper by J. W. Jackson is entitled " The 

 Use of Cowry-shells for the purpose of Currency, Amulets, and 

 Charms " and is to be found in the Memoirs and Proceedings 

 of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. lx. 

 pt. 3. In regard to the use of the money-cowry in America, 

 a continent to which the mollusc is an alien, the author dissents 

 strongly from the view that it was not introduced until the 

 time of Columbus. 



As the reader will be aware, there exists in this country 

 as well as abroad a school of anthropologists who hold what 

 maybe termed, without offence, extreme views on the antiquity 

 of man. They believe that Homo sapiens lived in Europe 

 long before the Aurignacian Age, they would trace the human 

 family far back into the Miocene, and they find eoliths which 

 they credit in Pliocene and even in Miocene strata. Of the 

 representatives of this school, none is more active and enthu- 

 siastic than Mr. J. Reid Moir of Ipswich, and attention may 

 be called to two of his recent papers. One is entitled " The 

 Evolution of the earliest Palaeoliths from the Rostro-Carinate 

 Implements " and is to be found in the Journal of the Royal 

 Anthropological Institute, vol. xlvi. and the other is published 

 under the title " A Series of p re-Palaeolithic Implements from 

 Darmsden, Suffolk," and has now been reprinted from the 

 Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, vol. ii. 



