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roally merits deeper attention. So of otlier little words, and especially the pre- 

 position til. 



4. Summary. — Our Danish and Norsk districts are the meeting-ground of the 

 two great divisions of Gothdom, the Teutonic and Scandinavian. In England the 

 Danisli deposit has been much diluted, though spots there are, like Cleveland (so 

 well described in Mr. Atkinson's 'Glossary'), where it is still in good preservation. 

 ■The political line between Scotland and England protected North Britain from a 

 like dilution, and made a place for the maturation of a language unparalleled iu its 

 own peculiar beauty, and especially as an instrument of lyric poetry. 



0)1 Recent Discoveries of Flint Imjjlements in Drift-Gravels in Middlesex, 

 Essex, and Berks. By E.. Edwards, 



On the Orif/inal Localities of tJie Races forming the present Poindation of 

 India. By Sir Walter Elliot. 



The object of this paper is to show that the Hindus, although exhibiting many 

 varieties of form and feature, were all referable to a common type, diftering essen- 

 tiall}' from the Aryan, and equally distinct from a Mongolian and Negrito source. 

 This normal character was deduced from Professor Huxley's Australoid type of 

 mankind, the original seat of which was to be sought in Central Asia, whence from 

 time to time, and often at distinct intervals, hordes have migrated into Hindustan, 

 some through the passes of the Eastern Himalayas, others, as the later Dravidians, 

 from the N.W., antecedent to the Aryan immigration. Later arrivals dispossessed 

 earlier occupants, reducing them to slavery or amalgamating more or less intimately 

 with them, but never losing the normal physical features of the race. Even the 

 Aryans, when they came iu contact with the despised Dasyus and Nishadas (or 

 monkey- and goat-faced tribes, as they contemptuously called them), could not 

 help intermingling with them in some degree, both in the ordinary and inevitable 

 com-se of sexual intercourse, and also by proselytism arising out of the relative cir- 

 cumstances in which they foimd themselves, aa their own writings show. 



Notice of a neiu Code of International Symbols for use on Prehistoric Maps*. 



By JoTTN Evans, V.P'.R.S. 



The system has been devised by a Committee appointed last year at the Congress 

 of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archseology at Stockholm. The symbols are 

 simple, and intended to denote the occurrence of dolmens, tumuli, and other objects 

 of archfcological interest, but are also susceptible of being made compoimd, so as to 

 denote the particular character and even the approximate age of any monument. 

 The Report of the Committee on which the paper was founded has been published 

 iu the ' Mat(5riaux pour I'Histoire Primitive de I'Homme/ vol. vi. 1875 (Supplement), 



On Recent Investigations in Cisshury Camp, Sussex, 

 By Colonel A. H. Lane Fox, Pres. A.I. 



On the Origin of the South-Sea Islanders. By the Rev, "Wtatt W. Gill, B.A. 



Mr. Alfred Wallace, iuhis admirable work on ' The Malay Archipelago ' (p. 593, 

 4th edit.), has advanced the theory that the Polynesians are descended from a race 

 which once overspread a vast submerged southern continent. As the land gra- 

 dually sank, a few of the aborigines may have escaped to the tops of the loftiest 

 mountains, around which subsequently coral reefs formed. Admitting that 

 " Polynesia is preemineutly an area of subsidence, and its great widespread groups 

 * Published in extcnso in the 'Anthropological Journal,' 



