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ORDINARY MEETING, May 10, 1870. 
H. Cadman Jones, Esq., M.A., in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the follow- 
ing elections were announced : — 
Life Member : — C. A. Hingston, Esq., M.D., L.D.S., Plymouth. 
Members: — T. B. Dale, Esq., J.P., Warwick ; Rev. W. Pennington, M.A., 
J.P., London ; Rev. C. Lacy, M.A., J.P., London. 
Also the presentation of the following Works for the Library : — 
“Mind and Living Particles.” By Dr. J. M. Winn. From the same. 
“ Sketch Books of the American Church.” By the Rev. Dr. 
Batterson. Ditto. 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — 
THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE PACIFIC. With a Map. 
By the Rev. S. J. Whitmee, A.V.I., F.R.G.S., Ac. 
T HERE are three classes of people inhabiting those islands 
of the Pacific Ocean which I include under the term 
Polynesia. In the western islands, from the east end of New 
Guinea and Australia, eastward as far as and including Fiji, we 
find a black, frizzly-haired people ; in all the eastern islands 
there are large brown straight-haired people (these are found 
also in New Zealand) ; and in the western islands north of the 
Equator there are smaller brown straight-haired people. 
These three classes of people are represented in the map 
by the colours blue, pink, and purple respectively. 
In a paper recently read before the Anthropological Insti- 
tute, I have proposed the following names for these people. 
