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ferent types preserve their identity even through periods of 

 time which embrace no small portion of the history of man- 

 kind/' It is with great pleasure I inform you that some of 

 these crania will be figured and described in the large work 

 on Ancient British Crania which my friend Dr Thurnam is 

 now preparing for publication. 



Africa. — The recent progress of African discovery so 

 amply repays the labour bestowed on it, as to satisfy the 

 desires of the most ardent. Some account, in an agreeable 

 though desultory form, of the scientific labours of the Prussian 

 mission to Egypt and Nubia, under Dr Richard Lepsius, has 

 appeared in an English dress, under the title " Discoveries in 

 Egypt, Nubia, and the Peninsula of Sinai, in the years 

 1842-45, during the mission sent out by His Majesty Fre- 

 derick William IV. of Prussia. By Dr Richard Lepsius.'* 



These letters, on their arrival in Europe, appeared in 

 various journals, chiefly in the Preussiche Staatzeitung, and 

 thence were copied by other papers. The collected letters, 

 therefore, although only now published, are not new to us ; 

 and some of the lingual questions connected with Ethnology 

 were discussed in our society as long as six years ago, The 

 letters are edited by K. R. H. Mackenzie, Esq., who appears 

 to be well acquainted with the Ethnology of North-East 

 Africa. 



Much valuable information concerning the tribes in the 

 interior of Africa around Lake Tsad has been collected by 

 the enterprising travellers, Drs Barth, Overweg, and Mr 

 Richardson, which is at present in the Foreign Office, but 

 which the Foreign Secretary has kindly promised to lay be- 

 fore our Society. 



Dr Daniell, a Fellow of our Society, and distinguished by 

 his Ethnological researches in Africa, safely arrived at 

 Macartney's Island, on the Gambia, in November last. Ho 

 informs me that he is now in the midst of an unwrought 

 ethnological field, and which he hopes to turn to good account. 

 I trust his life will be preserved to pursue those researches 

 for which he is so well qualified, and that he will return to 

 us in robust health to enjoy the otium cum dignitate after 



