1880. | Anthropology. 57 
The May number of the Yournal of the Anthropological Insti- 
tute contains the following papers: Some American illustrations 
of the evolution of new varieties of man, by Dr. Daniel Wilson; 
A revised nomenclature of the Inter-oceanic races of man, by 
Rev. S. J. Whitmee ; Ethnological notes on the Motu, Koitapu 
and Koiari tribes of New Guinea, by Rev. W. G. Lawes; Notes 
on a skeleton found at Cissbury, April, 1878, by Prof. Geo. Rolles- 
ton ; Illustrations of the mode of preserving the dead in Darnley 
island and in South Australia, by Prof. W. H. Flower. On page 
402 is the address of the retiring president, giving an abstract of 
the work done during the year. 
r. Wilson’s paper in the Fournal is devoted to a subject upon 
which he has bestowed a great deal of thought, the preservation 
of our aborigines, not by legislation but by a species of natura 
selection, through which a new race of men is being produced 
between the white race and the aborigines. The introduction of 
the black race and the Chinese increases the complexity of the 
problem and awakens some of the most curious questions in 
anthropology. 
The communication of Mr. Whitmee is important, not only on 
account of his long familiarity with the Polynesian races, but also 
for the discussion which followed it. There are two broad and very 
distinct divisions of these people, the dark and the drown races; the 
dark occupying Australia, the Andaman islands, portions of the 
Indian archipelago and Western Polynesia; the brown being 
found in Madagascar, the Indian archipelago, Formosa, North- 
western and eastern Polynesia, together with New Zealand. Mr. 
A es division of these races is represented in the following 
et . 
Austral Australia 
Andaman Is. ~- 
Negrito Samang, etc. 
rk Races 
Negrito-Polynesian 
Aru Is. 
L Papuan Western N. Guinea 
Western Polynesia 
Inter-Oceanic Samoa 
Races of Men 1 Sawaiori 4 Hawaii 
: N. Zealand, &c. 
Malagasy Madagascar 
Formosan Formosa 
` Brown Stock 
© Malayo-Polynesian 
; Malays of Sumatra, &c. 
Malayan Javanese, &c. : 
aroline Is. 
Tarapon - Marshall Is. 
Gilbert Is. 
Mr. Wallace, who contributes the volume on Australasia and m 
