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skulls it has recently been estimated that the Tasmanian 

 stood nearest to Homo fossilis (Briix and Galley Hill remains), 

 but had progressed a long way from Homo primigenius (Spy 

 and Neanderthal skulls) and the anthropoid apes, and that 

 Pithecanthropus was nearer to the anthropoid apes than to 

 Homo primigenius. In connection with this it is curious to 

 hear of the discovery, in the island of Luzon, E. Indies, of a 

 living native with a skull closely resembling the Neanderthal ! 

 The Prince of Monaco is about to found an Institute of 

 Human Palaeontology, which will study these and similar 

 questions. The Royal Commission on Welsh Monuments 

 has published its first report, and proposes to deal first with 

 those in the County of Montgomery, whilst the British School 

 at Rome is investigating the Megaliths in the lands of the 

 Western Mediterranean. The existence of a race of pygmies 

 in New Guinea has been confirmed by an English expedition. 

 They were met with at an altitude of 2,000 feet in the interior, 

 and averaged about 4ft. Sin. in height. In South- Western 

 Algeria are numerous rock drawings, made by the ancient 

 inhabitants, amongst which are pictures of a buffalo, with 

 large horns, which seem undoubtedly to represent the 

 species found fossil in the Quaternary and late Tertiary 

 deposits of that region, but which is now extinct. The age 

 of the drawings has not been determined, but 3,000 years is 

 suggested. It is represented as being hunted by men with a 

 skin garment round their middles, and armed with bow and 

 arrows or spear and javelin. 



GENERAL. 



The election of women as members of Scientific Societies 

 has been for many years a recognised thing in many of the 

 great Societies, and has lately been adopted by the great 

 French Society, the Academy of Sciences, by their election 

 to their membership of Madame Curie, the discoverer o 

 radium. In our Club we have always been pleased to have 



