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of Edinburgh, Session 1879-80. 
Whilst the view I take in regard to the transport of boulders, 
and the striation of rock surfaces in Scotland is, that these phe- 
nomena were in most instances due to ice in a sea, which reached 
to our highest mountain tops, I admit that there are traces also 
of land ice in the form of local glaciers. In last year’s Report 
I pointed out what appeared to me clear evidence of glacier action 
in Glencoe ; and Professor Heddle also recognised glacier action on 
the west coast near Loch Torridon. But my idea is, that these 
glaciers must he referred to a period antecedent to the submergence 
of the land, for we find those traces of glaciers in many places 
covered over by thick beds of gravel, sand, and clay which could 
only have been deposited by the sea. 
David Milne Home, Convener. 
On 21st May 1880, at a meeting of the Council of the Society, 
the Committee was reappointed, with the addition of General 
Bayley and Professor Duns, D.D. 
5. On Two Masks and a Skull from Islands near Hew Guinea. 
By Professor Turner. 
These specimens have recently been presented to the Anatomical 
Museum of the University, by J. Wharton Cox, Esq., who had 
received them from his father, Dr Cox of Sydney, the well-known 
Australian naturalist. 
The masks had been procured by Dr Cox from missionaries, and 
were either from the island of New Ireland or New Britain, in 
proximity to the north coast of New Guinea. They were both 
formed of the frontal and facial bones, on which a face had been 
modelled in a composition, formed of a mixture of a resinous 
substance with earth or clay. This artificial face had then been 
painted with red, black, and white pigments. The larger mask 
was hollowed out behind, by the removal of the sphenoid and 
ethmoid bones, so that it could be adapted to the face of a 
wearer, and a bar of wood was fastened transversely across the 
hollow, which the wearer had evidently used for holding the mask 
between his teeth ; as the mask had both the eyelids and lips 
