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was stated to be the separation of the Australian race from the Papuan ; the dif 
ferences between them being quite as strongly marked as between the Papuan and 
the Malayo-Polynesian. 
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On a Vocabulary of the Bethuck Indians of Newfoundland. 
- By R.G. Latruam, M.D. 
The evidence of language is in favour of the ethnographical affinities of the native 
_ Indians of Newfoundland being with the Red Indian rather than the Esquimaux tribes. 
On the Nekrasowzers of Bessarabia. By W. Twrnine, MD. 
A small Cossack race, which chiefly supports itself by fishing, and after having 
been engaged in hostility with all its neighbours, settled in Russia in 1830. 
On the Natives of Timor and Macassar. By Mrs. Suorv. 
The former are of dark complexions, of five feet six inches in height, and well- 
proportioned. They are inclined to gambling, slaving, and drinking; they are in- 
genious artificers and careful of the dead. They worship the devil, and are very 
superstitious. Their dress is picturesque. The people of Macassar are superior 
physically to the natives of Timor; their deportment is bold and independent, and 
eye beautifully fierce. Great attention is paid by the females to the dressing of their 
hair. They indulge in cock-fighting ; but ave industrious and take great pride in the 
neatness of their houses and gardens. The tribe of the people of Macassar de- 
signated Bugis, are a very commanding people, and ornament themselves with valuable 
jewellery. They are very susceptible of insult and revengeful. 
On the present state of Ethnological Philology. By R.G. Latuam, M.D. 
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On certain Races of Siberia. By Professor Von MippENporFrF. 
1. Ostiacks.—The most eastern branch of the Finnic stock. Between the Finns 
and Mongols, as spread over continuous areas, the Yenisey is the boundary. East, 
however, of the Yenisey, on the Kureika River, is found a small detached Ostiack 
horde. A nomade tribe, still more to the east, although called Ostiack, is probably 
Samoeide. 
2. Samoeides.—According to physical conformation, the Samoeides are Mongol. 
Two Samoeide languages, each falling into various dialects, are spoken on the Lower 
Yenisey. The Samoeides of the White Sea are the type of the race. The Yuracks, 
or Samoeides, on the west of the Yenisey, have a Finnic character. The Chatanga 
River forms the eastern boundary on the Samoeides. . 
3. Tungusians.—Three or four main dialects. ‘Three varieties of physical con- 
formation. 
4. Yakuts.—The antagonism between the evidence of language and the evi- 
dence of physical conformation is here even stronger than in the case of the 
Samoeides; the language being Turk, the physiognomy Mongol. ‘The Yakuts are 
pre-eminent examples of the extent to which the habits and constitution accommo. 
date themselves to change of locality and climate. Originally inhabitants of the 
Central Asiatic Steppes, destitute of trees, their second habitation was the region 
of woods, and their third the borders of the Polar sea. Their first domestic animal was 
the horse, their second the rein-deer, and their third the dog. The Dolganen are an 
outlying tribe of Yakuts, hitherto undescribed, on the Yenisey. 
5. Yukagirs.—Only two individuals seen ; their physical characters those of the 
Yuracks. 
6. Ainos.—Locality, the left bank of the mouth of the Amur; name, Gilacken ; 
physiognomy, Caucasian, sometimes Japanese. The two characters occasionally found 
even in the same family. 
7. Kachkhall.—On the south bank of the Amur. Known only from the descrip- 
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