142 SECTIONAL ADDRESSES 
REMOTE ISLANDS. 
The races of men who eventually reached New Zealand and other 
remote islands, were so far advanced in civilised life that they scarcely 
concern a palzontologist. ‘They only interest him on account of the 
disturbance of the existing wild life and the extinctions which they have 
caused. The ethnologist now joins the human anatomist in attempting 
to explain the distribution of these people and to discover their relation- 
ships. ‘They occupy a lowly sphere in the modern world. 
