1877.] Anthropology. Si 19 
Frederick Poynder ; the former strenuously maintaining “ that all those 
pictures of Hindoos casting themselves beneath the Juggernaut car, to be 
crushed, were purely imaginary.” In his latest communication Mr. 
Conway endeavors to prove that Mr. Claudius Buchanan and the Abbé 
Dubois were not competent observers. 
In acknowledging, at the French Association, the labors of M. Tubino 
on the populations of the Iberian peninsula, M. Broca says there is a 
true anthropological similarity between the Spanish peninsula and the 
north of Africa, and indeed the Canary Islands. I will go further and 
insist upon the analogy which I have already remarked between the 
Cro-Magnon race and the Guanches of Teneriffe. I believe that at an 
epoch anterior to the rupture of the Straits of Gibraltar, a stratum of 
population extended from Perigord, at least, on the north, to Africa and 
the Canaries on the south. I have always been struck with the similar- 
ity between the Spanish Basque and the Berber skulls. In the caverns 
near Gibraltar, which date back certainly to the polished-stone age, 
crania were found, the similitude of which to Basque skulls struck Mr. 
Busk as well as myself. f 
In Matériaux, No. 9, L: Pigorini publishes a list of the provinces in 
Italy wherein bronze objects are found, and of the particular kinds 
which are found in each province. The presence of knives, celts, fibulæ, 
spear-heads, ete., show us that “the men of the bronze age in the penin- 
sula had the same manners and customs as those of the same age in 
France. — O. T. Mason. 
Antiquities NEAR NAPLES. — During a summer spent in the neigh- 
borhood of Naples, I had the pleasure of examining some objects, evi- 
dently prehistoric, and of visiting the locality in which they were found, 
the cemetery of the Piano of Sorrento, formerly called Casa Talamo. 
In the excavation of a long ditch, made, according to the prevailing 
Italian custom, for the interment of the poor, at a depth of more than 
six feet, was found hollowed in the tufa a cavern, cut smooth, the floor as 
well as the arch, more than a yard in height, two in width, and two in 
length. Within it were several objects of great antiquity. Among these 
Were three articles of the simplest form of pottery. One was a vase of 
terra cotta, with a handle, the largest circumference being ornamented by 
perpendicular lines, inclosing spaces, every other one of which was lightly 
and lineally punctured. The height of this vase was about twenty-nine 
centimetres, and its largest circumference eighty-three. 
Another vase was of unbaked earth, without any ornamentation or 
handle, and broken upon one side. Its height was about twenty-seven 
centimetres, and its largest circumference seventy-eight. There was also 
a little cup, of very primitive terra cotta, without ornament, the handle 
oken off. The objects in flint were six or seven small arrow-points, 
quite delicately cut. There was an instrument of sandstone, roughly cut, 
diminishing to a blunt point. Its length was twenty-one centimetres, and 
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