344 Miscellanea Anthropologica. The Kirkhead Cave, near Ulverstone. [Extract of letter from Capt. Barrie, R.N., Swarthdale, Westmorland, 15th Sept., to W. Bollaert.] "I went yesterday with a party to grub in the soil of a cavern at Kirkhead, near Ulverstone, of which some notice has appeared in the Anthropological Journal. We found several bones of fowls and some of recent animals, all the marrow-bones broken. Only one human relic, part of the tibia of a small, but adult, man or woman. There is an immense quantity of mud in the cave, and the explorers have not reached the true bottom yet. The stuff that has been thrown out has nearly choked the mouth; so that to have fair play at it, you would require the services of half a dozen navvies to clear away the rubbish. I have seen bones of badger, rat, wild cat, wild pig, goat, goose, etc., also a bone bored through the side, as if for wearing for an ornament, a piece of the rudest pottery bearing marks of the hand on the inside, and a Roman coin: the latter was found close to the surface. There are no marks at present of any stream having flowed either in or out; but in the cave district of Yorkshire it is very common for these subterranean drains to change their course. Much more may be found with hard work; but the season is now so late, that I doubt whether another party will be got up." Human Hybridity. 88, Cambridge Street, Pimlico, August 27th, 1864. Sir, With respect to the question of the existence of half-breeds between Englishmen and the natives of Australia, whose frequency has been denied in the strongest terms by M. Broca, I should like to call attention to the following passage taken from a book entitled Reminiscences of Thirty-one Years' Residence in New South Wales and Victoria, by R. Therry, late one of the judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. London, second edition, 1863, p. 293. "Even the half-caste natural children of convicts and native women, some of the male portion of which class, on arriving at the prescribed age, are now, under manhood suffrage qualification, registered on the electoral roll of the New South Wales constituency, evince a tendency to prefer a savage to a civilised life.” This testimony seems both undeniable and decisive; and we see how it is these half-breeds have no special nick-name, a point on which M. Broca lays great stress. Being generally of convict blood, they are included in that class, as thereby already sufficiently distinguished from the free emigrant. I am yours, etc., T. BENDYSHE. INDEX. Abbeville, the fossil man of, again, 220 | Cambodia, Bastian on the ethnology of, British Association, Anthropology at, Daubeny on the decay of species, 301 A.D. 1864, 294 Broca's Hybridity, 164, 344 Bruniquel, cave of, Owen on, 226 Burton, Richd. F., notes on scalping, 49 thropology, 233 335 Doherty, Dr., organic philosophy, 213 Egyptian race, Poole on the ethnic re- mission to Dahome, Ethnology and phrenology as an aid to VOL. II-NO. VII. A A Levy, on twins, 232 Peyrerius, and theological criticism, 109 on the distinction between Pott, on the myths of the origin of Phillips, Professor, on the measure- Prehistoric dwellings, Roberts on, 151 145 on the Neanderthal skull, Limerick, human remains in Lough Psychical difference between man and Gur, 59 Lindemann, on primary stocks of man, origin and mental agents of man, 228 brute, 229 Quadrumana, Crisp on the anatomy of, Reade, W. Winwood, Savage Africa, 123 Reade, W. Winwood, on Burton's mis- Thomson, "not man, but man-like," Savage Africa, 123 Stone and bronze ages, Crawfurd on,313 147 Thoughts and facts contributing to the Time, Phillips on the measurement of, Turcoman tribes of Central Asia, Vam- Turner, Dr. William, on Cranial de- Twins, Levy on, 232 Type, Farrar on the fixity of, 302 Vambéry on the Turcoman tribes of Waitz's Anthropology, Burton's notes Wallace, Alfred R., on the progress of |