CONTENTS. XIU 



GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. 



Ethnology. 



Page 

 Rev. Thomas C. Archer on some peculiar Circumstances connected with one 

 of the Coins used on the West Coast of Africa 140 



Dr. Earth's Description of Timbuctoo, its Population, and Commerce 140 



Mr. John Crawfurd on the different Centres of Civilization 141 



Mr. Richard Cull's Manual of Ethnological Inquiry, and the Ethnology of 



Polynesia 141 



. on some Water-colour Portraits of Natives of Van 



. Diemen's Land 142 



, on the Complexion and Hair of the Ancient Egyptians 142 



Mr. Joseph Barnard Davis on theForras of the Crania of the Ancient Romans 142 



Mr. Alexander J. Ellis on a Universal Alphabet with ordinary Letters for 

 the use of Geographers, Ethnologists, &c 143 



Mr. G. Edmonds on a Philosophic Universal Language 145 



Rev. J. Gemmel on the Deciphering of Inscriptions on Two Seals, found by 



Mr. Layard at Koyunjik 145 



Professor Retzius on Celtic, Sclavic, and Aztec Crania 145 



Mr. C. Roach Smith on a Roman Sepulcral Inscription on an Anglo-Saxon 

 Urn in the Faussett Collection 145 



Mr. Thomas Wright on the Ethnology of England at the Extinction of the 

 Roman Government in tlie Island 146 



on Inscriptions in Unknown Characters on Roman 



Pottery discovered in England 146 



Geography. 



Mr. C. J. Anderson on late Explorations in Africa 146 



Dr. W. Balfour Baikie's Report of the late Expedition up the Niger and 

 Tchadda Rivers 146 



Captain Sir E. Belcher's Remarks on the late Arctic Expedition, and on the 

 several Completions of the North-west Passage 147 



Mr. J. BouLT on the Importance of Periodical Engineering Surveys of Tidal 

 Harbours, illustrated by a Comparison of the Surveys of the River Mersey, 

 by the late F. Giles; and the Marine Surveys of the Port 147 



Mr. Consul Brand's Notes on the Portuguese Possessions of South-west Africa 147 



Lieut.-Col. Burton's Account of a Visit to Mechnafroin Suez, by way of Jambo 147 



Rev. F. Fleming's Journey across the Rivers of British Kaffraria 147 



Mr. James Gall, jun., on Improved Monographic Projections of the World... 148 



Mr. J. M. Inskip's Account of the Exploration of the Isthmus of Darien, 

 under Capt. Prevost,R.N 148 



Dr. Livingston, Extracts from Letters dated Pungo, Andongo, and St. Paul de 

 Loanda, describing his Journey across Tropical Africa 148 



Professor MacDonald on the Preadamitic Condition of the Globe 148 



Dr. Julius Oppert on the Geographical and Historical Results of the French 

 Scientific Expedition to Babylon 148 



