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CONTENTS. 
WEDNESDAY, 12TH JANUARY, 1898. 
. Remarks on Central Australia, suggesting Further Exploration, 
By W. H. TrerKens 
A Gontibation to Australian Oceanography. By THos. WALKER 
Fow.er, M.C.E., F.R.G.S., F.G.8., &e. ... 153 
The Determination of Heights by "Barometric Methods. By 
THos. WALKER FOWLER, M. C.E., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., &e. ; 
. Antarctic and Southern Exploration, By the Hon. P. G. Kine, 
M.L.C., F.R.G S. 
7. The Discov very of New Guinea es Antonio D’Abreu. By Sie 
McCiymont, M.A. 
Section F.—ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY. 
SATURDAY, 8TH JANUARY, 1898. 
Address by A. W. Howirt, F.G.S., &c., President of the Section... 
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FRIDAY, 7TH JANUARY, 1898. 
Le Dieu, la Nature, PAme. By Monsieur D. Marceron 
The Mythology of the Efatese. By Rev. Dr. MacponaLp 
Notes on Some Customs and Pe of the Maori. By 
Eispon BEst ... Ds snc ote hen 
Pictorial Art of the Australian’ Aborigines. By R. H. 
Matuews, L.S8. os 8 Nos a0 
Australian Initiation Ceremonies. “By R. H. Maruews, L.S.... 
SATURDAY, 8TH JANUARY, 1898. 
The Dialectical Changes of the Indo-Polynesians. By Rev. 8. 
Mownpay, 10rH JANuARY, 1898. 
. The Life History of a Savage. By Rev. Dr. Gro. Brown 
. The Disappearance of Native Races in general, and of the Fijians 
in particular. By H. H. THIELE ... 
. Notes of a recent Journey to New Guinea and New Britain. 
By Rev. Dr. Gro. BRown ... 
. A Female Hermit of the South Pacific, with her s song. “By the 
late Rev. Dr. W. W. Git, B.A. 
. Concerning Unga as a term for Slave in 1 Rarotonga. ” By the 
late Rev. Dr. W. W. Git, B.A. 
. Tahitian and Hawaiian Tattooing. “By Miss Tevrra Heyy... 
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Black, White, and Red, as Symbols. Eye JOHN eee IBSAGS 
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. Lhe Geogr aphical Know ledge of the ‘Poly nesians. el S. Percy 
SmitH, F.R.G.S. 
TuESDAY, llrH JANUARY, 1898S. 
. The Oceanic Family of Languages. By Rev. Dr. MACDONALD. 
. Some Anthropographic Notes on the Tannese, New Hebrides. 
By Rev. W. W. Gray. 
. Proposal for a Bureau of “Ethnology in in Australasia. ‘By A. 
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