of Africa. This large continent of former times Sclater has called Lemuria, from the monkey like animals which inhabited it, and it is at the same time of great importance from being the probable cradle of the human race. The important proof which Wallace has furnished by the help of chronological facts that the present Malayan Archipelago consists in reality of two completely different divisions, is particularly interesting. The western division, the Indo-Malayan Archipelago comprising the large islands of Borneo, Java and Sumatra, was formerly connected by Malacca with the Asiatic continent and probably also with the Lemurian continent, just mentioned. The eastern division, on the other hand, the Austro-Malayan Archipelago comprising Celebes, the Moluccas, New Guinea, Solomon's Islands etc., was formerly directly connected with Australia.”¹

     “Hypothesis of the geneology and general migrations of the races of man

     (4) “There are a number of circumstances (especially chronological facts), which suggest that the primaeval home of man was a continent now sunk below the surface of the Indian ocean, which extended along the south of Asia, as it is at present (and probably in direct connection at some points with it); towards the east as far as Madagascar and the south-eastern shores of Africa. Many facts in animal and vegetable geography render the former existence of such a south Indian continent very probable. To this continent has been given the name of Lemuria, from the primitive mammals of that name which were characteristic of it. By assuming Lemuria to have been man's primaeval home, the explanation of the geographical distribution of the human species by migration is much facilitated.”²

     (5) “Investigations in relation to race show it to be no means impossible that Southern India was once the passage ground by which the ancient progenitors of Northern and Mediterranean