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thropological Institute* as to the way in which the stone- 
implements which occur respectively in the West Indies 
and in Guiana may be made to throw light on the much 
vexed question of how and when the Caribs passed into 
Guiana ; and I have little doubt that further knowledge of 
such examples would throw much further light on the whole 
very interesting and now obscure subject of the migra- 
tions of the various Indian tribes within the West Indies 
and Guiana. 
But no large number of the stone-implements which 
occur in every island and in every district of the West 
Indies has ever been brought together in the requisite 
way. There are, it is true, a few West Indian stone- 
implements in the Blackmore Museum, (these having for 
the most part been collected, not in Guiana, but by our 
own Guianese explorer Sir ROBERT SCHOMBURGK) ; and 
there are a few others in most large collections of such 
stones. There also exist in private hands in the West 
Indies many more or less extensive collections of these 
objects. But the fact remains that no steps have ever 
been taken to bring any large or adequate number of 
these West Indian implements together, to allow of 
comparison, by which means alone they may be made to 
reveal their history. 
As it would now be certainly impossible for any in- 
dividual, and a long and difficult task even for any insti- 
tution, permanently to collect all, or even any very large 
number of these implements from their various owners, 
we propose, as the only available alternative, to publish 
* Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. xi, p. 360, London 
1882. 
