450 General Notes. [April, 
their food raw, and a disease of the gums spread among them. 
The dead are put in a sitting position, the corpse is covered with 
leaves of the cocoa-palm, and the women must keep a fire close 
by until the body is dried. The corpse is buried only if there i$ 
nobody to keep fire. Kidnapping of these nations is practice 
the crews of ships of all nationalities of the civilized world. Pre 
vious anthropologists had admitted two different races in New 
Guinea, and had made a distinction betwen the Papuans of the 
coast and of the interior. The Papuans of the interior, however, — 
belong to the same race as those of the coast, and there i$- 
throughout New Guinea but one Papuan race. Virchow 
the Papuans dolichocephalic and the Negritos of the Philippines 
brachycephalic. Hundreds of measurements by Mr. Maclay 
show that the purest Papuans range from .62 to .86 in cephalic” 
index. The Papuans do not have the clustered hair attributed tò 
them, and the size of the curl varies even on different parts of the 
same head. The Malays on the opposite islands have for centu- : 
ries trafficked with these natives for slaves, turtles, trepang 
pearl shells. They even bring Malay girls and exchange 
for Papuan girls. The blood, therefore, is very much mixed. The 
height of the men on the Malay coast varies from 1.74 to 1.42" : 
of the full-grown women it is about 1.32. 3 
At Port Maresby, on the southern coast, Mr. Maclay ger | k 
mixture of Polynesian blood among the Papuans. These ha 
have a lighter skin and uncurled hair, the women tattoo a 
selves as long as they have children, thereby improving "g 
beauty. Ee 
Measurements were made upon the heads of Negrin 
Manila, whose cephalic index was .875 to .90. One ven 
only 1.30 meters in height. Their faces were like those ot * 
Papuans, while their customs are akin to those of the Me Orang: 
islands. They reverence the fire and are very hospitable. ye 
utan, or wild tribes of the Malay peninsula, were visited pa a . 
scribed. The sumpitan, or blowing tube, with its tiny PO panes 
arrows is their deadly weapon. In the mountains at the ae 
of the Pakkan river, the traveler found Orang-Sakays, e men 
.74-.82 for men, .75—.84 for women, and .74-.81” forca the 
The diameter of Boe ant of hair is 2-4™™. The oe of v 
skin is 28-42, and 21-46 Broca. One hardly knows his pains 
admire more, the intrepidity and grip of Mr. Maclay, oF ke 
taking enthusiasm in his work. Pa. 
Revue p’EruHnocrapute.—This new candidate for 
now passed through its first year, under the manag : i 
Hamy, conservateur of the Ethnographic Muse X peen neg 
While ethnography,technology and sociology have n° : 
