SOURCES OF MELANESIAN MATERIAL. fe 
cases amounting to concise monographs upon the ethnic or linguistic 
problems which present themselves. 
It has seemed pertinent to offer this brief comment upon the man- 
ner of linguistic treatment practised by our principal authorities, for 
in the work of each we find an assumption that there exists a Melane- 
sian race, and Friederici proposes carefully elaborated argument to 
establish as fact that this Melanesian race is not autochthonous, that 
it has left traces of its sweep of migration upon the area which it now 
occupies, just as the Polynesian race has left like memorials of its 
culturally higher, longer, and perhaps wider migration, and that 
from these traces he may establish the source of the Melanesians in 
peoples included in Indonesia within the somewhat higher culture of 
the Malayans. 
These are points upon which the present inquiry is addressed. 
The material upon which our comparative investigation is based is 
contained in the following works; and since we shall have to make 
incessant reference to one or other, I have added in this list the short 
designation under which each is cited: 
Coprincton. The Melanesian Languages. By R. H. Codrington, D. D., of the Mela- 
nesian Mission, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Oxford, 1885. 
Ray. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume III. 
Linguistics, by Sidney H. Ray. Cambridge, 1907. 
POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. The Polynesian Wanderings: Tracks of the Migration Deduced 
from an Examination of the Proto-Samoan Content of Efaté and other Languages of 
Melanesia. By William Churchill. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. No. 134. tIog1t. 
DEUTSCH-NEUGUINEA. Waissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer amtlichen Forschungsreise nach 
dem Bismarck-Archipel im Jahre 1908. II. Bettrége zur Vélker- und Sprachen- 
Runde von Deutsch-Neuguinea. Von Dr. Georg Friederici, Hauptmann a. D. 
Erganzungsheft Nr. 5 der Mitteilungen aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten. 
Berlin, 1912. 
MELANESISCHE WANDERSTRASSE. Ut sup. III. Untersuchungen tiber eine Melanestsche 
Wanderstrasse. Berlin, 1913. 
Supanu. The Subanu: Studies of a Sub-Visayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao. Part I. 
Ethnographical and Geographical Sketch of Land and People. By Lieut. Col. John 
Park Finley, U.S. A. Part II. Dzscussion of the Linguistic Material. By William 
Churchill. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. No. 184. 1913. 
