782 REPORT — 1894. 



The author stated, on the authority of Professor Virchow, that the bones of the 

 small race are not those of a pathologically degenerated people, but of normal 

 structure. In connection with this find it is important to note that Sergi and 

 Mantia have discovered some living pygmies in Sicily and Sardinia, mostly under 

 1,506 mm. in height in Sicily. In appearance they look like miniature Europeans. 

 In the author's opinion these small types must be regarded, not as diminutive 

 examples of normal racv^s, but as a distinct species of mankind which occurs in 

 several types dispersed over the globe ; and he is led to believe that they have been 

 the precursors of the larger types of man. 



2. On some Stone Implements of Australian Type from, Tasm,ania. 

 By E. B. Tylob, D.C.L., F.R.S. 



The ordinary stone implements used by the Tasmauians were remarkable for 

 their rudeness. They come generally under the definition of substantial flakes, 

 trimmed and edged by chipping on one side only, not ground even at the edge, and 

 grasped in the hand without any kind of handle. The Palaeolithic level of these 

 implements, notwithstanding their often recent date, had been pointed out by the 

 writer.' In illustration of this comparison, Tasmanian implements were now 

 exhibited side by side with flint implements from the cavern of Le Moustier, in 

 Dordogne. But an important point of exception as to this comparison, mentioned 

 in the paper referred to, demands reconsideration in view of the new evidence now 

 brouo-ht forward. In the investigation as to native stone implements conducted about 

 twenty years ago by the Eoyal Society of Tasmania, some exceptional statements 

 were made as to stone axes or ' tomahawks ' being ground to an edge, and fixed in 

 handles, and these were explained as due to the Australian natives who have 

 passed into Tasmania since the European settlement. What was meant by these 

 statements now appears more clearly from three ground implements of distinctly 

 Australian character, well authenticated as brought from Tasmania, and now 

 exhibited by the courtesy of the Municipality of Brighton, to whose museum they 

 belong. The largest has a label showing that it was obtained through Dr. Joseph 

 Milligan, probably from G. A. Robinson, the first protector of the aborigines after 

 the native war ; and that it was grasped in the hand for notching trees in climb- 

 inf. The other two specimens are merely marked ' Tasmanian,' with the initials 

 ' G. A. R.' The coexistence of two such difl'erent types as the chipped and ground 

 forms in Tasmania requires, however, further explanation. This may probably be 

 found in the immigration of Australians either after or before the English colonisa- 

 tion, but it would be desirable that anthropologists in Tasmania should make 

 further inquiry into the question on the spot, so as fully to clear up the interesting 

 position of the Tasmanian Stone Age. 



3. On Tasmanian Stone Im,plements. By H. Ling Roth. 



4. Tlie Troglodytes of the Bruniquel, a Grotto of Ironworks on the 

 Borders of Aveyron. By Dr. Emile Cartailhac. 



The collection of which M. Emile Cartailhac showed photographs has been 

 formed by the Viscomte de Lastin. It is the complement of the beautiful series 

 acquired some time ago by the British Museum. 



The eno-ravings upon bone and the sculptures representing animals are very 

 remarkable, and throw a bright light on the art of the Reindeer Age. Amongst the 

 most interesting objects are the straight beams of reindeer horn, sculptured at one 

 extremity in the form of a horse as seen from the front, head lowered against the 

 breast, feet joined. There are several pieces of this kind, almost similar. Lartet 

 found similar specimens, but broken and unrecognisable, in the layers of the 



' ' On the Tasmanians as Representatives of Paleolithic Man ' in Journ. Antlirop. 

 Inst., vol. xsiii. 1893, p. 141. 



