TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 871 
4, Seclusion of Girls at Mabuiag, Torres Straits. By C. G. SELIGMANN. 
See Reports, p. 590. 
5, Notes on the Club Houses and Dubus of British New Guinea. 
By C, G. Serigmann.—See Reports, p. 591. 
6. Notes on the Otati Tribe, North Queensland. By C.G. SELIGMANN. 
7. Contributions to Comparative Psychology from Torres Straits and 
New Guinea.—See Reports, p. 586. 
8, Professor Happon exhibited Photographs from Torres Straits 
and British New Guinea. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 
The following Papers and Report were read :— 
1. Some New Observations and a Suggestion on Stonehenge. 
By Aurrep Eppowss, J/D., MR.C.P. 
The author believes that the thirty large upright stones, with their intervals, 
indicate that the circle was divided into sixty equal parts ; that the Grooved Stone 
(which is the best selected, worked, and preserved stone in the whole ruin, but has 
never hitherto received the attention it deserved) was used for supporting a pole in 
a definite and permanent manner; and that the signs of wear at the mouth of the 
groove, together with the two worn horizontal hollows or waists, and the dimples 
on the convex back of the stone, indicate not only where, but how, this pole was 
fixed. Such a pole would form the pointer of a sun-dial for daily observation, or— 
what was more important—an indicator of the time of year, by the length of its 
shadow.- The levelled avenue (along which the sun’s shadow would fall about 
3 P.M.) and the flat ‘slaughter-stone’ with its arrow-head marking, seem to the 
author to support his view. 
2. Interim Report on Investigations of the Age of Stone Circles. 
3. Notes on the Discovery of Stone Implements in Pitcairn’s Island. 
By J. AutEN-Brown, £.G.S., L.B.GS. 
The implements were obtained in Pitcairn Island by Lieutenant Gerald Pike, 
R.N., during the cruise of H.M.S. Comus in 1897-8, and the greater part of them 
are in his possession. 
They are made of the compact volcanic reck of the island, and were discovered 
about a foot below the surface. 
One class consists of small celts chipped and partially ground, with the sides 
worked to a ridge, and resemble those discovered at Tahiti and in some other 
islands of the Pacific. Another class consists of large chipped and ground axes 
with long narrow shank and widespread cutting edge. Other forms again are a 
long clublike chisel, well smoothed and shaped as if for a handle grip at the butt- 
end, and a'plain cylindrical club, such as might be used for beating Tapu cloth, 
though the modern Tapu clubs are of wood, and square in section. 
