TEANSACTIONS OF SECTION D. DEPT. ANTHROPOLOGY. 697 



The existence iu the Malay Archipelago and in New Guinea of peoples interme- 

 diate between the Papuans and Polynesians was then mentioned, the frizzly hair 

 which those peoples and the Papuans possess heiug explained as due to the pre- 

 sence of a Negrito element. The Jewish features of some of the Papuans, which 

 are often met with also among the Polynesians, is the result of Semitic influence. 

 The fundamental type of both Polynesians and Papuans was straight-haired and 

 long-headed, and might he called Austral-Caucasian. Reference was made to 

 various arts, habits, and customs, and also to language, as contirming the conclu- 

 sion thrt the Polynesians and Papuans are sprung from a common stock, although 

 the latter have been largely affected by crossing with the Negrito race, and by 

 the influence of an early Asiatic migration ; and the former have been as largely 

 affected by contact with a more modern Asiatic people, now represented by the 

 Malays, both races having been further influenced by the intermixture of Arab and 

 Indian blood, but the Papuans more especially. 



3. On Excavations in a camp called Amhresbury Banlcs in Epping Forests 

 By General Pitt-Eivees, F.B.S. (formerly Colonel Lane-Fox). 



This investigation has been conducted under the auspices of the Epping Forest 

 NaturaUsts' field club. General Pitt-Rivers first drew attention, by means of an 

 imaginary section, to the evidence to be derived from cuttings through the ramparts 

 of camps, which he said was of a very definite and reliable character ; all objects 

 found on the old surface line beneath the ramparts being of the age of the earthwork. 

 The result proved, by means of fragments of pottery and other small objects, that 

 this camp is British or Romano-British, that is, British before or after the Roman 

 conquest. The paper was illustrated by a plan and section of the camp. 



4. On the Relation of Stone Circles to Outlying Stories or Tumuli or 

 Neighbouring Hills, tuith some inferences therefrom. By A. L. Lewis. 



The author, from an examination of eighteen stone cncles in Southern Britain^ 

 showed that their builders had in various ways made special references to different 

 points of the compass, but most particularly to the N.E. He then showed, from a 

 number of independent sources, ranging from the Prophet Ezekiel down to a foreign 

 correspondent of the ' Daily News,' that other ancient structures had similar references, 

 known to have arisen in connection with times and seasons, and various forms of 

 nature-worship ; that practices connected with such worship, and especially with 

 sun and fire worship, have come down, even in this country, to the present time ; 

 and that circular buildings and open circles have been and are used for worship of 

 this kind, and inferred from these facts that the British stone circles were used for 

 sun-worship probably iu the Druidic period. He then dwelt on the references to 

 the N. and E. in the orientation of English churches, which he thought to be 

 derived from the references to those quarters in the circles, as the Roman Catholic 

 churches, whether in Rome or London, are not so placed, and he gave some curious 

 details on this point. He concluded by drawing attention to the firm root taken by 

 Christianity in the Druidic countries of Gaul and Britain, and the great influence 

 exercised by those countries in the later Roman Empire, and especially in the 

 establishment of Christianity as the State religion. 



5. Notes on some specimens of Saw-cuts and Drill-holes in hard Stones of 

 Primeval Egyptian period. By W. Flinders Petrie. 



While examining the constructions of the earliest Egyptian period, many proofs 



appeared of the methods of cutting hard stones, such as granite, diorite, basalt, &c. 



The tools appear to have been of bronze, with jewelled cutting edges, probably 



