702 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H, 



Tagai represents the Lero of this name standing in a canoe, holding a fishing- 

 spear in one hand and a bunch of fruit in the other, and includes the Southern 

 Gross, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Corvus, and stars of Lupus and Centaurus. Another 

 constellation. The Shark, comprises the Great Bear, with the stars Arcturus and 

 Gemma. 



In Murray Island there was found to be private property in stars, the two 

 stars of a constellation called The Brothers (Vega and Altair) belonging to two 

 men who had inherited them from their ancestors. 



7. A Survival of Two-fold Origin. By W. H. R. Rivers, M.A., M.D. 



There can be little doubt that the close connection found to exist in many 

 races between a man and his maternal uncle is usually a survival of mother- 

 right. There is, however, evidence that in at least one part of the world a 

 connection which seems to be of exactly the same kind may be a survival of 

 another feature of a previous social condition. In India there is often a very 

 close relation between a man and his maternal uncle which becomes especially 

 prominent during the wedding ceremonies ; and it is probable that this has had 

 its origin, at any rate in some cases, in the social regulation that the children 

 of brother and sister should marry each other. Such a regulation involves the 

 consequence that the maternal uncle of a man is at the same time his father-in- 

 law, either actual or potential. It is probable that this marriage regulation was 

 at one time widely prevalent throughout India, though at the present time it 

 seems to be chiefly limited to the southern part of the peninsula ; and there is 

 some evidence from South India that the part played by the maternal uncle at 

 the marriage of his nephew is due to the fact that he should by rights be occupy- 

 ing the position of father of the bride. 



It would thus appear that customs linking together two relatives which seem 

 to be very similar may yet have different origins, and may be survivals some- 

 times of a previous mode of descent, somstimes of an extinct marriage regulation. 



8. Demonstration of Photographs of Racial Types, 



ByT. E. SilURTHWAITE. 

 The photographs exhibited show six distinct types : — 



Long-headed, 



1. The Iberian : Facial contour oval, egg-shaped, or somewhat lozenge- 

 shaped. 



'2. The Teutonic : Facial contour oblong or somewhat wedge-shaped. 



Broad-headed. 



3. The Remlan : Facial contour pear-shaped. 



4. Tl>e Ligurian : Facial contour pentagonal, or five-pointed. 



5. The Magian : Facial contour round or roundish. 



6. The Celtic : Facial contour square or squarish. 



The specimens show the above six types in England, Brittany, and Holland, 

 with simUar types from all parts of the world. 



9. Report on Anthropometric Investigation in the British Isles. 

 See Reports, p. 349. 



