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Notes and Comynents. 



being- reproduced herewith by the kindness of Mr. Hillman and 

 Mr. H. Brodrick. It is a pity, however, that there is not more 

 uniformity in the size, etc., of these various handbooks. Each 

 year the handbook is of different size, colour, and thickness. 



DANES' GRAVES. 



Dr. W. Wrig-ht has recently subjected a collection of 22 

 British skulls from the so-called Danes' graves, near Driffield, 

 to a careful examination, and gives the result of his work in a 

 paper in the journal of the Anthropological Institute, recently 

 issued. The skulls, which are in the Driffield Museum, belong 

 to a mixed people, and probably date from the early part of the 



Front and side views of a Skull from the Danes' Graves. 



Iron Age. In the author's opinion the occupants of the Danes' 

 graves were the direct descendants of the British Neolithic race, 

 who lived comparatively unmixed through the lengthy Bronze 

 Age, or they were settlers from the Continent belonging to a 

 race which was more or less identical with that of the British 

 neolithic dolichocephals. The latter hypothesis is the more 

 likely one. Dr. Wright's paper is accompanied by elaborate 

 and carefully prepared tables giving cranial and facial measure- 

 ments, indices, etc., of the various skulls, and several photo- 

 graphs, two of which are here reproduced by the kindness of 

 the Institute. 



Naturalist, 



