1921.) The ighth Indian Science Congress. cexlvii 
Human Sacrifices. —By Rat Banapur Hira Lat. 
(1) a eee if site alence of human sacrifices aes its continuance. 
wh oaart hee for Police Re 
(2) Various forms f human sacrifices, viz coat g by throat, 
drowning, wae ing, tne ial, throwing down fro m precipices, 
er abuts under cars, teatooling by cattle or killing by noose 
with examples 
(3) Suihagthites for human er rlenine such as cocoanuts, pumpkins, 
curds, rice and flour with a lam 
(4) Exemptees from human saeettioaw i eiibae. Brahmans, etc. 
The Indian ea cy origin and chronology.—By 
PANCHANAN Mir 
Prof. ot Smith n sigan or holds the field with his theory 
of the eriiee of the eesti cult in protodynastic Eeypt and dispersal 
thence all over t ld studies alhouse and Fergusson 
who had first-hand knowledge of Indian m megalitile sheen in premising 
an Western influ ‘ent studies of a i st also point 
to an Egyptian-like culture which produced the countless megaliths in 
the D t ponies f _ i n 
Bahadur §. C. Roy turn our attention to the r ferences in Satapatha 
Brahmana (ec. 18th. i nt B.C.) and Dr. Block heed ing bare some 
mounds at Lauriya Nandangargh in Behar had hinted a their possible 
antiquity and ie aig caaesecgy of Vedic rituals. While the existence of 
simil nds ake mppey on 
ar mau ral Asia and gigi north from 
Micrus lead to supposing — nce of a separate mound-cult 
regi n pode Baton , the variety of Indian asian ie 
0. 
distribution in sy numbers | near Bren Southern seabo = and its sur- 
prehistoric India ate cultural contract with Egypt and 
po nen peed dee batt Sulvilabed as between 300 and 1000 
(¢ 200 
bie repartee 2 in Eastern art Sod religion.— By 
. G. 
tae pa gives an account of the various forms of the thunder- 
weapon aes in Eastern art and at the same time touches upon the 
e author also dise 
the worship of thunder-symbols in er and modern India and mr 
illustrations from the Lamaic art of Tib 
Prehistoric antiquities od Ghatsila.— By PANCHANAN 
Mirra . : 
Report of the finds of a huge Palaeolith from a river-terrace as we 
as ofa tena: neolithic axe and ar pc cesar near by possibly of neolithic 
date with marked Australian affiniti 
The statistical constants of an Anglo-Indian “a a 
art I1:—Head length and head breadth.—By P. C. 
Masiatanonts before the Asiatic Society in 
The first part, on stature, was read before the Asiatic 
November, "1920. The measurements were carried out in the Anthropo- 
