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in the compartment -wHch had "belonged to the person when living, and 
continued to occupy the remainder of the yourt as usual. The position in 
which these skeletons were found indicates that such was the manner in 
which they had been interred. It is still a common practice, among tribes 
of the Orarian stock, to tie up the body of a dead person in the manner just 
described. Further digging showed that a great part of the mound was 
composed of materials foreign to the locality. These principally consisted 
of bones of cetaceans, fur seal ( Callorhinus ursinus), sea lion (Eumetopias 
Stelleri), and sea birds, principally ducks and gulls or petrels. There were 
also large accumulations of the shells of edible molluscs, among the most 
conspicuous of which were the common mussel (Mytilus edulis), Saxidomus 
sqiialidus^ Desh., Tapes staminea, Conr., and Modiola modiolus^ L. All the 
above are still living in these seas, most of which are still found in Cap- 
tain’s Bay, and form a portion of the food of the existing native population. 
The sea lion and walrus are no longer found in IJnalashka, and the fur seal 
but rarely.” 
Ancient Greek Crania have been recently discovered, in a perfect state of 
preservation, at Athens. The first is that of a woman named Glykera, as we 
learn from the tombstone, which was found as it had been placed by affec- 
tionate survivors. In the tomb beside the skeleton were two small painted 
vases, and on the tombstone was sculptured a parting scene of no great 
artistic merit. The second is that of an old man. It was found May 17, 
1871, in a tomb, lying from west to east, and containing, besides, about 
thirty vases, a silver fibula, two gold rings, a gold plate, and sonie articles 
of bronze, but no inscription from which we might gather any knowledge of 
its tenant. The vases are of what is called the earliest style, that is, the 
style which prevailed in Greece previous to the introduction of the human 
figure as a subject of decoration in vase painting. Supposing the transition 
from the earlier to the later style of painting to have taken place shortly 
after the death of this old man, and assuming his cranium to be a normal 
cranium of his nationality and time, it is interesting to see how what has 
always been a remarkable feature in the earliest vases on which the human 
figure occurs — the smallness of the cranium — comes to be justified as a cor- 
rect observation of nature. Of both crania, indeed, though that of Glykera 
cannot be regarded as of an early date, Virchow (who gives elaborate mea- 
surements and descriptions of them in the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic, ” 
Berlin, 1872, iv. p. 147) remarks that their capacity is much under the 
medium of modern civilised people, and rather resembles that of savage 
races. At the same time the form of both is very beautiful, the vaulting of 
the male head being particularly fine. In occipital development it is much 
inferior to that of Glykera. But in spite of this difference, the similarity 
between them is so great in the formation of the brow and face that there 
can be little doubt of both persons having been types of the same race. — See 
the Academy,” May 15. 
Costanti, a Curiously-tattooed Man. — It is much to be regretted that Cos- 
tanti, after yielding so far as to go to Berlin for the purpose of being more 
closely examined by Virchow and Bastian, should have been overtaken at 
the last moment by an illness which he made the pretext of returning at 
once to Vienna. There is little doubt, says the ‘‘Academy,” but that 
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