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supplement. The Anthropological Institute in 1877 published 

 a preparatory list of publications relating to the Nicobars, most 

 of which seem to be referred to by Mr. Kloss, who has moreover, 

 himself, given a useful summary of many writings relating to 

 these islands from the time of Ptolemy. Of all the ethnological 

 illustrations, none are of more interest than those of the Shorn 

 Pen, who inhabit the interior of the Great Nicobar. These 

 people were till recently only known by report and tradition, 

 and were on those grounds usually considered as of the Negrito 

 race. Dr. A. B. Meyer, in his classical work on the Negritos, 

 had, however, shown the hypothesis to be untenable, or at least 

 unproved ; and now the photographs of Mr. Kloss have given 

 absolute contradiction to the supposition. 



The " headmen " of the Nicobar Islands have a partiality for 

 taking the names given to them by traders, and others who visit 

 them. The Editor of this Journal, who spent some weeks at 

 Kar Nicobar in 1868, is naturally somewhat astounded to read 

 — and after an interval of thirty-three years — that among other 

 celebrities, as Sam Weller, Tom Noddy, Corney Grain, &c, a 

 Nicobarian still does him the honour to bear his name, even to 

 the correct initials. 



Text-Book of Palaeontology. By Karl A. von Zittel. Trans- 

 lated and Edited by Charles B. Eastman, Ph.D. Vol. II. 

 Macmillan & Co., Limited. 



In our volume for 1900 we published a notice of the first 

 volume of this excellent translation, which was altogether re- 

 stricted to the Invertebrata ; the present volume, devoted to the 

 Vertebrates, carries on the subject as far as the class Aves, while 

 the treatment of the Mammalia is reserved for a third and final 

 volume. 



Although the authority of Zittel is pre-eminent in palae- 

 ontology, still time, with the facts of fresh discoveries, is always 

 demanding new and revised editions of the most canonical 

 writings. With the concurrence of the author this course has 

 been considerably pursued with the present volume ; Dr. Smith 

 Woodward has translated and revised the class Pisces ; Dr. E. 

 C. Case, of Wisconsin, has performed the same duty with the 



