1869.] Archaeology. 255 



author gave an account of cavern-explorations and their results; 

 the progress of discovery in the Quaternary deposits ; the proposed 

 order of chronological sequence of the various remains found 

 in river-gravels, peat-mosses, kitchen-middens, caves, crannoges, 

 jpfahlbauten, &c. ; of the animals found, whether migrated, extinct, 

 now living, or having been killed off by the hand of man. 



He pointed out that widely different states of civilization (as at 

 the present day) might then have existed in close proximity to each 

 other, and suggested that the old cave-dwellers of Perigord repre- 

 sented the population of the less civilized portion of the globe, as 

 the aborigines of Africa, America, and Australia do now in our 

 own day. 



Ethnological Society. 



The Ethnological Society have resolved to institute a permanent 

 committee (upon a scheme proposed by Col. Lane Fox, Hon. Sec), 

 for the purpose of examining into the validity of all evidence sub- 

 mitted to the Society, or otherwise obtainable, in relation to the 

 science of man. To assess the relative value of such evidence, 

 whether direct or second-hand, and to record the names of the 

 authors or communicators according to a scale to be hereafter 

 determined uj^on. To decide on a fixed terminology, and to classify 

 all facts admitted in evidence. The classification to include the 

 following primary divisions : — 1, Eaces; 2, Languages; 3, Eeli- 

 gions; 4, Folk Lore and Superstitions; 5, Laws, Customs, and 

 Institutions ; 6, Works of Art and Industry. 



Another part of the scheme is the distribution of skeleton maps 

 of various sizes for the purpose of marking the geographical distri- 

 bution of the several classes. Distributions arranged by individual 

 members will be discussed by the Committee, who will from time 

 to time report to the Society the progress they make. Registers 

 will be kept which shaU be available to any member of the Society 

 desiring to consult them. Such a scheme, if carried out successfully, 

 is likely to result in a rich harvest of materials on which, at a future 

 day, sound generahzations may be based. 



ANTHROPOLOaiCAL SoCIETY OF LoNDON. 



A paper was read on the 2nd of February, by the Eev. J. G. 

 Atkinson, on the " Cleveland Gravehills." The moorland districts 

 of the valley of the Esk, l}"ing to the west of Whitby, at between 

 eight and sixteen miles distance, are thickly studded with burial 

 mounds or barrows, or in the old Danish vernacular, " howes." 

 Many have been destroyed; but of the larger ones which yet 

 remain, a large proportion have been examined by the author. He 



