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Sea, and celebrated for its cliambered tumulus, the chamber and 

 gallery of which are together about 70 feet long, 5 feet high, 

 and 3 feet wide at the entrance, increasing gradually to a height 

 and width of from 6 to 8 feet. The surfaces of the upright stones 

 forming the walls are nearly all covered with incised ornamentations, 

 composed chiefly of segments of circles interspersed with wavy hues, 

 resembling somewhat the Northumbrian rock-inscriptions and those 

 of the tumulus of New Grange, Ireland. 



Dr. Hunt reports the results of an investigation of the mega- 

 lithic monument of Carnac, in Brittany, controverting the statement 

 of Sir John Lubbock that Avebury and Stonehenge were the two 

 largest monuments of their class in Europe, and insisting on the 

 superior proportions of Carnac, which also differs in many respects 

 from Stonehenge. Dr. Hunt denies that there is any proof of the 

 contemporaneity in construction of Carnac, Avebury, and Stone- 

 henge. 



Mr. L. Owen Pike contributes a singular paper " On the 

 alleged Influence of Kace upon Eeligion," in which the author 

 expressed his conviction that any race might, to all appearance, 

 hold any creed, and, in conclusion, that, although there may exist 

 certain race-elements in the religion of every people, they are of 

 minor importance, and cannot be defined in the present condition 

 of language and psychology ! 



Dr. John Davy, F.E.S., gives a paper on the Negro, chiefly in 

 relation to industrial habits, vindicating the negro race against the 

 unjust charge of being inveterate sluggards. 



Dr. Charnock, F.S.A., describes the peoj)les of Transylvania, 

 which country embraces no less than fourteen distinct races, a most 

 interesting region to the Anthropologist. 



Mr. H. Westropp, " On the Mythic Age," attempts to show the 

 intellectual unity of the human race from the almost universal pre- 

 valence of similar myths among early and uncivilized peoples in 

 remote countries. 



Mr. G. Harris, F.S.A., attempts the difiicult task of explaining 

 "the Mental and Moral Distinctions occasioned by Difierence in 

 Sex," and Mr. J. McGrigor Allan the equally daring attempt to 

 show " the Eeal Differences in the Minds of Men and Women." 

 The former writer honestly observes that there are extensive differ- 

 ences which no artificial attempts can lessen ; but each sex has its 

 proper sphere of exertion and duty in which it excels. The latter 

 writer evidently places women on a very much lower physical and 

 moral platform than man, and whilst charging women with con- 

 tending for empire and seeking masculine privileges, uses rather 

 unfair arguments. Some of his assertions are palpably inaccurate, 

 as, for example, that " women are always more or less invalids." 



