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viii and development advanced by certain leaders of anthropological thought.

Such being the case, we deemed it advisable, in anticipation of fuller publication, to make known the preliminary results of our inquiries. This had also the advantage of not only making known our results, but also submitting our conclusions to criticism, and finally, to use a well-known mining term, to "marking out our prospecting claim."

This we did by, in the first place, communicating a series of memoirs to the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; and secondly, by other publications, all of which are included in the following list.

It will be seen that the several chapters of this work, in one aspect, are those memoirs elaborated, but they also include other facts which have been since obtained.

With the increase of information, due to a wider scope of inquiry, the mental horizon was necessarily widened, bringing the facts into a truer perspective. Thus it has come about that some of the views expressed in earlier papers have been modified, as will be pointed out in several places in this work.

The following list gives the publications referred to, being either the joint works of Dr. Lorimer Fison and myself, or of myself alone:—

Kamilaroi and Kurnai. Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt. 1880.

"From Mother-right to Father-right." A, W. Howitt and Lorimer Fisson, ''Journal Anthrop. Inst.'' August 1882.

"Notes on the Australian Class Systems." A. W. Howitt, ''Journal Anthrop. Inst.'' May 1883.

"On Some Australian Beliefs." A. W. Howitt, ''Journal Anthrop. Inst.'' November 1883.

"Australian Group Relations" A. W. Howitt, Smithsonian Report, 1883.

"On Some Australian Ceremonies of Initiation." A. W. Howitt, ''Journal Anthrop. Inst.'' 1884.