REPORT OF COMMITTEE No. 11. 
The Bibliography of the Australasian, Papuan, and 
Polynesian Races. 
MempBers oF CommirTse :—Hon. Dr. AcNEw, Rev. J. CopELANp, Rev. 
S. Exiua, Rev. W. Wvratt Git, Sir James Hector, Mr. A. W. 
Howirt, Mr. J. F. Mann, and Dr. Joun FrRassr, Secretary. 
ALL the members of this committee have been consulted, but 
the arrangement of the work to be done and the doing of it have, 
of necessity, been mainly in the hands of those members of it 
who reside in Sydney. Thus it was agreed that the Papuan Race 
should be inserted in our programme; it was also thought 
desirable, and in this all the members of the committee concurred, 
that an effort should be made to present to these colonies, and 
especially to Britain, a full and reliable account of some of the 
less known features of the social and domestic life of the 
Australasian, Papuan, and Polynesian Races, based on the same 
topics of inquiry, and written, as it were, in parallel columns. 
Even those who are well informed on such subjects may find it 
pleasant to have thus the means of comparing and contrasting at 
one glance some of the characteristics of these races; and when 
we consider the lack of trustworthy information of that kind 
among scientists in European countries, our committee is of 
opinion that a voluntary labour such as this, may well be added 
to the work assigned to us. The following syllabus was 
accordingly prepared and issued to the members of the committee 
and to others :— 
Torics TO BE DISCUSSED IN THE REPORT ON THE AUSTRALASIAN, 
PAPUAN, AND PoLYNESIAN RACEs. 
N.B.—The characteristic features of the Races and other well-known 
points are omitted. 
BirtH AND CHILDHOOD.—Observances and superstitious beliefs in con- 
nection with the birth of a child—any variation in these when 
the child 1s a female—is the woman isolated and regarded as 
