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Ethnological Society. . 



Part I. of the new Quarterly Journal of this Society made its 

 appearance in April last, edited by Professor Huxley, F.E.S. (the 

 President), and a Committee of the leading members of the Society. 

 The number contains articles by (1) Col. A. Lane Fox, Hon. Sec. 

 E.S., " On some Fhnt Implements found assObiated with Eoman 

 Ptemains in Oxfordshire and the Isle of Thanet," tending to prove 

 that there must have existed, during the Eoman period in this 

 country, a class of people who employed flint tools such as we are 

 in the habit of associating with a very early condition of human 

 culture. The interblending of civilized and barbarous conditions 

 in Eomano-British times occurred as certainly as it does in South 

 America at the present day, where every shade of gradation may 

 be observed between the highest condition of civihzed life and that 

 of savages armed with bows and poisoned arrows and wearing lip- 

 stones. In the Gold-ornament Eoom at the British Museum may 

 be seen an Etruscan necklace of most elegant workmanship in gold, 

 from wliich is suspended a flint arrow-head of the same pattern as 

 one of those figured by Col. Lane Fox from Oxfordshire. 



(2.) Mr. H, Howorth gives Part I. of an "Essay on the 

 Westerly Drifting of the Nomads from the Fifth to the Nine- 

 teenth Century," in which he traces the immigration and spread 

 of the various nomade races which have overspread the great plains 

 and steppes of Southern Eussia and Poland, and the plains of Hmi- 

 gary, Persia, and Asia Minor. 



(3.) Col. A. Lane Fox gives an account of a bronze spear with 

 fi gold ferule and a shaft of bog-oak, 6 feet 1 inch in length, the 

 bronze head 1 foot 4 inches fi'om the point to the base of the 

 socket, obtained from Lough Gur, County Limerick. 



(4.) Mr. Hyde Clarke contributes a paper "On the Proto- 

 Ethnic Condition of Asia Minor," and traces out the early history of 

 the Khalubes and other hill-tribes engaged in mining and smelting 

 ores, and endeavours to correlate them with the Yuruks inhabiting 

 the mountains of Western Asia Minor at the present day. 



(5.) Sir John Lubbock's account of some stone flakes of a very 

 rude description, from the Great Flat between Table and False 

 Bays, Cape of Good Hope, is interesting from the fact that, 

 although the African races are almost all in a very barbarous state 

 so far as relates to social conditions, yet a knowledge of rude 

 metallurgy has been long and widely spread throughout Africa, and 

 we know, as yet, scarcely anything about the stone implements 

 which, no doubt, here, as elsewhere, preceded the use of metals. 



(6.) Mr. H. M. Westropp's paper " On Cromlechs and Mega- 

 lithic Structures " is an endeavour to prove that such archaic 

 remains are ]')eculiar to no i)eo])lc or race or comitry, but are the 



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