Note By A.C.R.

nro undertake the task of condensing A so vast a subject as Polynesian migrations into the limits of a short article, imposes the necessity of leaving out masses of evidence on which one bases his conclusions. I can, however, append a list of some of my sources:— (1) Two very learned old scholars of Ra’iatea —aged respectively 90 and 80 years—who knew no language but the old Tahitian tongue and consequently were untainted by European scientific specula tions. (2) What Professor MacMillan-Brown did NOT say about the megalithic struc tures in the Caroline Islands. (3) A few clear crystals fished up from the turgid depths of the seething caul dron of scientific controversy about Easter Island. (4) The varying physical characteristics of Polynesians inhabiting the several archipelagoes. (5) About every work of research pub lished, concerning this fascinating subject. (6) The island of Keao, its inhabitants, and its marae (which resemble the plat forms of Easter Island). I had a Reao native with me as a man-of-all-work. 30 years ago. Reao, the most easterly atoll of the Tuamotu Group, is inhabited by a tribe who differ greatly from the people of other islands. I have never been in South America, but the physiognomy of the Reao people certainly resembles that of pictures I have seen of primitive natives of the South American interior.