146 REPORT—1863. 
On the Marganza. By the Rev. J. L. Proctor. 
On the Opening of a Cist of the Stone Age near the Coast of the Moray Firth. 
By EH. Rozerts and Prof. Busx, F.R.S. 
Mr. Roberts said that, in company with his friends Dr. Gordon and Mr. Harvey 
Gem, he had lately visited two mounds situated pine the sandy shores at Bannat 
Hill, a mile from Burghead; and after examining their contents, they turned their 
attention to the small cairns of rudely piled stones which lie a few yards from one 
of the shell-middens, and which evidently marked the burial-places of the tribe. 
Two of these were piled around small enclosed spaces, formed by the junction of 
four upright stones. A fragment of human jaw lying on the sand outside one of 
those led them to search among its contents for other bones, but unsuccessfully. 
The second cairn, however, with its central cist, yielded better evidence. This, 
like the neighbouring tomb, was a rude erection of four flat sandstone-slabs, placed 
vertically, so as to enclose a space 30 inches long by 20 inches in width. The 
depth of the stone, which nearly corresponded with that of the grave, was 22 inches. 
Three of the stones had been slightly smoothed before being used. The direction 
of this grave was S.S.E. by N.N.W. This, however, was of no moment, as the 
adjoining one differed so much in this respect as to lie at nearly right angles to it. 
The cavity thus formed was filled with sand, into which they dug, and presently 
succeeded in discovering a skeleton, which had apparently been buried in a crouch- 
ing position, the legs below the knee being bent beneath the hams, and the head 
bowed towards the knees, and presenting peculiarities which Mr. Busk had described 
in a note attached fo the paper. From the position of the skeleton Mr. Roberts 
was at first inclined to consider that the cist had never been broken into, but the 
absence of some few of the vertebree and of the smaller bones rendered this some- 
what uncertain, though the disturbance, whether from curiosity or another motive, 
seemed to have been insignificant. He regretted, however, to add, that the box in 
which he packed the bones was tampered with during its transit from Elgin to Lon- 
don, and some of the bones, including the lower jaw, from which precious evidence 
might have been obtained bearing on the Moulin-Quignon enigma, never reached 
him. No pottery nor fashioned stones accompanied the skeleton. The note by 
Professor Busk was to the effect that the bones had belonged apparently to a young 
individual, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches in height, of slight make, and no preat 
muscular development. At first sight, from the comparative delicacy of form and 
want of muscular impressions, one would be inclined to regard them as those of a 
woman, but, if so, she must have been of more than the usual stature. Unfortu- 
nately, no part of the pelvis, which would enable a correct judgment as to this 
oint to be formed, was found among the remains. If they were a man’s, he must 
have been of small size, and not of a strong build, with a remarkably small head for 
a male. The cranium was decidedly brachycephalic, the proportion of length to 
breadth being as 1:00 to 823, and for its size rather unusually high, the proportion 
of that dimension being to the length as ‘808 to 1:00. The forehead was narrow, 
and the supraorbital ridges very slightly projecting, although the frontal sinuses 
were well developed. Compared with other ancient crania, this might be regarded 
as belonging to the same class as those which had been considered as appertaining 
to the stone-period of the North of Europe. 
On the Physical Geography of Guatemala. By O. Savin. 
On Ethnographical Casts. By Hermann Scuiacrn welt. 
On the Ethnology of Ceylon, referring especially to its Singalese and Tamil 
Inhabitants. By Mutu Coomara Swamy. 
The author commenced by saying that the population of Ceylon was nearly 
three millions, and that its inhabitants, who were distributed among a great variety 
of races, might be classified under the heads of European, Asiatic, and Eurasian. 
The European population was not great, and consisted chiefly of English, Irish, 
