combs were almost invariably made of bamboo, and were decorated with an infinity of designs, no two of which ever entirely agreed. It was said that each disease had its appropriate pattern. Similar combs are worn by the Pangan, the Semang and Sakai of Perak, and most of the mixed (Semang-Sakai) tribes.” I am informed by Mr.Vincent that, as he knows, the Kƒdir combs are not looked on as charms, and the markings thereon have no mystic significance. A Kƒdir man should always make a comb, and present it to his wife just before marriage or at the conclusion of the marriage ceremony, and the young men vie with each other as to who can make the nicest comb. Some times they represent strange articles on the combs. Mr.Vincent has, for example, seen a comb with a very good imitation of the face of a clock scratched on it.”¹

     “In an article devoted to the Australians, Professor R.Semon, writes as follows”: We must, without hesitation, presume that the ancestors of the Australians stood, at the time of their immigration to the continent on a lower rung of culture than their living representatives of today. Whence, and in what manner, the immigration took place, it is difficult to determine. In the neighbouring quarter of the globe there lives no race, which is closely related to the Australians. Their nearest neighbours, the Papuans of New Guinea, the Malays of the Sunda Islands, and the Macris of New Zealand, stand in no close relationship to them. On the other hand, we find further away, among the Dravidians of India, types which remind us forcibly of the Australians in their anthropological characters. In drawing attention to the resemblance of the hill-tribes of the Deccan to the Australians, Huxley says: ‘An ordinary-cooly such as one can see among the sailors of any newly-arrived East India vessel, would if stripped, pass very well for an Australian, although the skull and lower jaw are generally less coarse.’ Huxley here goes a little too far in his accentuation of similarity of type. We are, however, undoubtedly confronted with a number of characters - skull formation, features, wavy curled hair - in common between the Australians and Dravidians, which gain in importance from the fact that, by the researches of