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Fasciculi Malayenses : Anthropological and Zoological Results of 

 an Expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 

 1901-1902, undertaken by Nelson Annandale and Her- 

 bert C. Eobinson. Anthropology, Part I. University 

 Press of Liverpool. 

 It was once well said that, thanks to the researches of a few 

 eminent men, we have a far clearer knowledge of the primitive 

 Aryans than we have of certain states of society actually existing 

 at the moment in Africa and Asia. But this reproach to anthro- 

 pological investigation is now being rapidly removed. We 

 recently drew attention to a work on the Andamans and Nico- 

 bars, in which the veil was lifted from the mysterious race who 

 inhabited the interior of the Great Nicobar. A similar service 

 in this publication is done for the Semang and Sakai tribes 

 which inhabit the Malay Peninsula. "We do not say that Messrs. 

 Annandale and Eobinson are alone among modern writers on 

 these people, but we can safely affirm that they have produced 

 and will continue the publication of by far the fullest and most 

 authentic account of them. It is remarkable how little was 

 really known, anthropologically, concerning these tribes, and 

 our ignorance was partly due to the few travellers who were 

 interested in the investigation, and the then lack of scientific 

 method in the few actual studies made. Thirty-five years ago, 

 when the writer of this notice resided for two years in the 

 Malay Peninsula, nothing but hearsay and tradition could be 

 gleaned concerning the Semang and Sakai tribes ; now we possess 

 the first instalment of a really exhaustive memoir, beautifully 

 illustrated, and conforming to the rigid requirements of anthro- 

 pological research. 



The Butterflies and Moths of Europe. By W. F. Kirby, 

 F.L.S., &c. Cassell & Co., Ltd. 



In our last volume attention was drawn to the commencement 

 of this publication, and we have now received part xxxii., con- 

 cluding the work. Mr. Kirby, in 1882, published a similar work, 

 in which all the species were described that were included in the 

 catalogue of Staudinger and Wocke (1871); the present volume 

 comprises descriptions of all the butterflies and larger moths 



