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XIII.— PeoceedinCtS of the Scientific Societies of Londoi^. 



1. Ethnological Society. (4, St. Martin's Place.) 



Novemler Stli, 1864. 



Some skulls exhumed in 1863 in the province of Spiti, a part of 

 Ladak, or Chinese Thibet, were presented to the Society by Mr. 

 Philip Egerton, of the Bengal Civil Service. These skulls were inter- 

 esting as comiDg from a region where the Caucasian and Mongolian 

 families meet. — Mr. S. J. Mackie exhibited a fine series of eighteen 

 flint implements from a gravel drift of Bedford, collected by J. Wyatt. 

 — A note from Count Marschall was read, giving an account of the 

 researches of Prof. Jeitteles in the peat-bogs of Olmiitz, where 

 human bones and works of primitive art had been found in association 

 with remains of ox, boar, and horse. — Mr. T. "Wright, Hon. Secretary, 

 gave an account of the proceedings in the Ethnological Section of the 

 British Association at Bath, which were deemed highly satisfactory. 

 — An account by Dr. Shortt, was read, " of some rude Tribes, sup- 

 posed Aborigines, of Southern India." These tribes were the 

 Tenadies of Ireehuree Cottah, a flat, sandy island on the Coromandel 

 coast, the Yillees met with in the outskirts of every village of the 

 district ; the Iroolers residing for the most part around the village 

 of Nagalapooram, at the foot of the Eamagherry Hills; and the 

 Dombers. The Tenadies were described as having Mongolian 

 features, and speaking a slightly corrupted dialect of Teloogoo ; the 

 Villees, too, have the Mongolian type strongly marked ; the Iroolers 

 are seemingly of the same caste. " Dommari" and " Dombari" are 

 applied to a certain low caste of natives, supposed to be one of the 

 great aboriginal races, whose chief occupation at the present time is 

 the performance of acrobatic feats. They are tall, tolerably well 

 made, with complexions varying from bamboo to copper colour, and 

 in some merging into black. The predominant type of countenance 

 is stated as Mongolian. — A second paper was read, " On the Eixity 

 of Type," by the E.ev. H. Parrar, in which the author contended 

 that an extraordinary fixity of type had characterized the races and 

 varieties of mankind since the earliest dawn of history, and quoted 

 numerous examples, including the Egyptians, Jews, Negroes, and 

 Assyrians, to prove his point. — Mr. Phillips exhibited a series of 



