on archaeological; ETC., INVESTIGATIONS IN SARDINIA. 265 



of the Giants were developed from an earlier type of dolmen tomb, as 

 has been conjectured by Montelius and others, but that this develop- 

 ment took place on the soil of Sardinia itself. The mysterious civilisa- 

 tion of the dolmen people has long been a puzzle to archaeologists. We 

 can now, however, confidently say that in Sardinia at least this dolmen 

 culture represents an early episode in the great Bronze Age civilisation 

 of the Nuraghi. 



' A curious circumstance came out in the course of these researches. 

 The dolmens in no case showed that juxtaposition to the Nuraghi which 

 we had previously found to be so constant a concomitant phenomenon 

 in the case of the Tombs of the Giants. One might as well have been in 

 Corsica ! And it is well known that in the sister island there are no 

 Nuraghi, and that there the dolmen type of tomb survived throughout 

 the Bronze Age. 



' The last part of our campaign was devoted to a partial exploration 

 of the country to westward of Macomer called Planargia as far as 

 Cuglieri and the sea. 



' The Nuraghi in this whole region are of the very greatest import- 

 ance, especially from the point of view of their strategic significance. 

 They form a regular network as far as the sea, and one can see by study- 

 ing their positions of vantage that they are all directly or indirectly in 

 signalling communication with each other. They are, as Mr. Newton 

 has well remarked, regular block-houses which might very well be 

 compared with those which have performed so prominent a part in 

 modern warfare, as, for example, in the final stages of the Transvaal 

 war. ' 



The Committee have also received from Dr. Duckworth a summary 

 of a critical study of Sardinian craniology, which the author hopes to 

 publish in extenso during the coming year. 



Ethnographic Survey of Canada. — Report of the Committee, consisting 

 of Rev. Dr. G. Bryce {Chairman), Mr. E. S. Hartland (Secre- 

 tary), Dr. P. H. Bryce, Mr. C. Hill-Tout, Dr. B. Sulter, 

 Professor J. L. Myres, Dr. A. C. Haddon, Dr. F. C. Shrubsall, 

 Professor H. Montgomery, Mr. A. F. Hunter, Dr. J. Maclean, 

 and the Hon. Daved Laird. 



After the appointment of the Committee in Ethnology, the Chairman, 

 being a Councillor of the Archaeological Institute of America, attended 

 in December a meeting of the Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. 

 This Institute has a Canadian Section. During the meeting he suc- 

 ceeded in getting a strong resolution passed supporting the action of 

 the British Association in favour of the establishment of a Department 

 of Ethnology at Ottawa. 



As President of the Eoyal Society of Canada, the Convener suc- 

 ceeded in getting further co-operation from the Eoyal Society as well. 



The Chairman being in Ottawa during the meeting of the Dominion 



