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He does not deny that it is sometimes difficult to draw the line 
between these groups, but observes that the same difficulty exists in 
treating of species belonging to other groups of the animate world. 
The ‘Anthropological Review and Journal of the Anthropological 
Society’ for July contains nothing that we need notice at any 
length. There are but two descriptive papers in the number, both 
being in the ‘ Journal’ portion, and both printed in abstract. One 
is “On Vocal and other Influences upon Mankind from Pendency of 
the Epiglottis,’ by Sir Duncan Gibb, Bart., and the other by Lieut. 
Oliver “On the Hovas of Madagascar,” who are described as having 
a Mongol physiognomy, with affinities to the Malays. 
The ‘Norfolk News’ tells its readers that Anthropologists 
‘consider subjects of much the same kind as those which come 
under the notice of the Ethnological Society, except that they 
confine themselves to the study of man, whilst the Ethnologists 
deal also with the migrations of plants, and things not directly 
connected with man !” 
In M. Fouqué’s ‘Premier Rapport sur une mission scien- 
tifique 4 Vile de Santorin,’ is a description of the remains of 
buildings which have been found buried beneath the “ 'Tuf pon- 
ceux” forming the uppermost volcanic deposit on the south-east 
coast of Therasia, and which he regards as of Pre-historic date. 
The walls consist of irregular unworked blocks of lava, irregularly 
placed, the interspaces being filled up with an earthy material 
mixed with vegetable matter, but devoid of any calcareous ad- 
mixture. In the interior of the chambers (which were numerous, 
and some of which were furnished with windows) the explorers 
found a quantity of obsidian knives, vases of turned pottery and 
lava, a human skeleton, bones of ruminants, &c. Under similar 
Tuff on the Island of Santorin M. Fouqué found a bed of volcanic 
cinder containing obsidian knives and two gold rings; and at a 
neighbouring locality a similar cinder-bed contained two tombs, 
which yielded to his search nothing but a Byzantine coin, regarded 
by the author as having been placed therem at some period sub- 
sequent to the formation of the tombs. In other tombs, but above 
the Tuff, he found pottery (turned) exactly like that from the 
buildings at Therasia. 
M. Fouqué believes that we have in the structures last men- 
tioned the remains of dwellings (as shown by the existence of 
windows), which were built on the scoriaceous lava which underlies 
the Tuff prior to the eruption of the latter. As no implements of 
the ordinary metals have been discovered, he refers the whole of the 
remains found at Therasia to the Stone age. He suggests that 
the obsidian knives, the pottery (some of which is remarkable 
for the elegance of its form and the beauty of its decoration), and 
the gold rings were all imported, because the materials are not to 
