882 ADDRESS ON ANTHROPOLOGY. 



He does so (pp. 436-438 of his work on the Great Ice Age) in 

 language which shows us that Colonel Lane Fox's lecture just re- 

 ferred to, with its diagram No. i (printed, it is true, for private 

 circulation), could not have met his eye. Colonel Lane Fox's 

 paper will relate to further explorations carried on at Cissbury 

 during the present year by a Committee of the Anthropological 

 Institute with the kind permission of Major Wisden, the owner of 

 the soil. It will raise more than one large question for us to 

 address ourselves to. I shall, when Colonel Lane Fox's paper 

 comes before the Department, contribute towards its discussion by 

 showing a number of flints from Cissbury, given me by my friend 

 Mr. Ballard, of Broadwater. 



Mr. Pengelly will, on Monday,. give us an account of the 'An- 

 thropological Discoveries in Kent's Cavern.' A more interesting 

 subject will not often have been treated in a more interesting 

 manner. 



Polynesia and Australasia generally have always been an in- 

 teresting field for the anthropologist. Our recent acquisition of 

 Fiji makes it doubly interesting to us just now; and a flood of 

 literature has burst forth upon us to meet that interest. 



Professor Dr. Carl E. Meinicke is to be heartily congratulated 

 on having, in the present year, brought out a work on the islands 

 of the Pacific (' Die Inseln der Stillen Oceans, eine geographische 

 Monographic,'' Erster Theil, Melanesien und Neuseeland, Leipzig, 

 1875), in which he can, with not unbecoming pride, say that he is 

 still working upon the same principles which guided him nearly fifty 

 years ago in the composition of his works on the continent of 

 Australia and the South-Sea races. Though I possess Professor 

 Meinicke's works, I am not as yet entirely in possession of all his 

 views ; but so far as I can see, they are well worthy of attention. 

 I do not hesitate, however, at all in saying that the most important 

 contribution to the ethnology of Polynesia which has been made 

 recently is the article on that subject in the ' Contemporary 

 Review' for February 1873, by the Bev. S. Whitmee, of Samoa. 

 And I may say that I am not without hopes that we shall be 

 favoured with some papers upon the ethnology, anthropology, and 

 future prospects of the Polynesian race by other persons eminently 

 qualified to speak upon the subject, as having spent many years 

 usefully among them, and on the spot. I observe that writers who 



