TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 619 
the publications of the Peabody Museum, and the reproductions of the 
Codices by the Duc de Loubat, also in the splendid collections of the 
Museum fir Voélkerkunde at Berlin, the Mexican Hall of the Natural 
History Museum at New York, and the Peabody Museum. 
Among distinctive types are:—The chiefs in the reliefs at Xochicalco, 
who sit cross-legged ; the little shaven clay heads at Teotihuacan; the tall, 
well-built priests, with protruding lower lip, of the Palenque reliefs; the 
fifteen caryatid statues in feather mantles, of the Upper Temple of the 
Tigers, at Chichen Itza, and the sixteen stern warriors carved at its doors, 
these last similar in type to some of the modern Indians of the villages near 
Tlaxcala. 
There are portraits of the Mexican kings on the border of a picture-map 
which represents the western quarter of Tenochtitlan, and of the house. 
holders in that part of the city. Of female types there are the painted clay 
figures of Jalisco, with compressed heads. Some of them have short, broad 
figures, others are slender. Both types still survive. The queenly women 
in Codex Nuttall-Zouche, and the women-chiefs of the Guatamalan stele, 
belonged to a different caste to the obviously inferior women on those stele, 
fattened in preparation for sacrifice. 
Herr T. Maler’s most recent explorations on the borders of Guatamala 
have given magnificent results, in the finding of thirty-seven stele at Piedras 
Negras, and, at Yaxchilan, of twenty stele and forty-six sculptured lintels. 
The superb figures of warriors and priests indicate a race of men of tall, 
slender stature and oval face, with large aquiline nose, whilst the captives 
appear to be of a different race. 
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27. 
The following Reports and Papers were read :—- 
1, Interim Report on Archeological and Hthnological Researches in 
Crete.—See Reports, p. 287: 
2. Recent Hittite Research. By D. G. Hoaarru, M.A. 
3. Researches in the Maltese Islands in Recent Years. 
By T. Asusy, M.A., D.Litt., and T. E, Peut, M.A. 
Excavations have been conducted by the Government of Malta on the 
Corradino Hill, in which the co-operation of the British School at Rome 
has been cordially welcomed, and its investigations assisted in every way ; 
the supervision has been entrusted to the Director of the School and to Mr. 
T. E. Peet, Student of the School, assisted by the constant co-operation of 
Dr. T. Zammit, Curator of the Museum. The great. megalithic buildings 
of Gigantia, Mnaidra, and Hagar-Kim, which Dr. Arthur Evans considers 
to have been buildings of a sepulchral character in which a cult of departed 
heroes gradually grew up, and other smaller prehistoric monuments of the 
islands, have been carefully described by Dr. Albert Mayr, though others 
have since become known, but excavation was needed in order that many 
essential facts might be ascertained. The investigation of the rock-cut 
hypogeum of Halsaflieni, the architectural features of which imitate in the 
most surprising way those of the sanctuaries above ground, has for the first 
* To be published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 
