Cyprus.

the only green plant which , after it has grown for one year , the locusts do not attack because of its astringent properties . This is also the more important , because the island is visited by a plague of locusts . There are also seasons of great drought , but the heavy clews to a ' great extent counteract their effect . As to the mineral products , Major Wilson mentioned that copper mines had been extensively worked m the island by the Romans . The principal ones were situated near Tarnassus , about three hours ride from has also been found the ancient SoloeBesides

Dale ( Ida-limn ) Coal , or shale , near . copper , Strabo mentioned that the island produced silver ; and Pliny records the existence of precious stones , probably rock crystal . In saying that light fevers attacked those who visited the island he did not wish to convey that the climate was what could be fairly described as unhealthy . It arose from the circumstances which he described , which prevented" the rivers reaching the sea . It would also occur to them that the place could it for the worship of "Venus

scarcely have been unhealthy , when the Greeks adopted . He hoped that one of the first things the Government would do would be to send over a properly organized scientific expedition to survey the island . They had no proper topographical survey . The maps they had were by different itinerants , who had crossed the island from different directions . They had no scientific maps of the mines ; and he thought a geological survey should also be made . The whole country required to be number of inscri there which must be most

excavated , for there must be a great ptions valuable . As an instance of what might be discovered , he mentioned the bi-lingual inscription , in Phoenician and C . ypriote , upon marble found by Mr . Lane at Dale , the ancient Idalium , in the British Museum . He had no doubt that the energetic High Commissioner , Sir Garnet Wolsely , would so deal with the administration of the country that in a few years Cyprus wotdd set an example to the whole country of rich produce , and he would like to see the old castle of Buffamento one day the seat of the High Commissioner of the island of Cyprus .

Central Asian Races.

CENTRAL ASIAN RACES .

IT is curious to note and to remember what a great deal we have got to learn in respect of our fellow-creatures ^ . At the recent Anthropological Congress in Paris , M . de Hjfalvy gave a short account of the anthropological results of his travels in Central Asia . He met in these regions with olny two races , properly speaking—a white race , the Lido-European , especially in its Iranian branch , and a yellow race , the Mongolo-Altaic insisted the neccessity of banishing from scientific terminology

. M . Hjfalvy on the word Turanian , which means nothing , and which has been greatly abused in support of ethnological theories more than doubtful . The word Scythian is not less improper , and ought also to be banished from scientific language . The white race of Central mountains

Asia is there represented by the Iranians—i . e ., by the Tajiks of the , Galtchas , and by the Tajiks of the plains and towns . These latter , who count among them descendants of the aborigines with colonists from Persia , ancient freed slaves , are , nevertheless , of a blood much mixed with that of the Tartar invaders . They are of good stature . M . Hjfalvy measured fifty-eight , who had a mean height of 1-67 metre . They are good-looking according to the European notion of beauty ; the nose is aquiline , the black to blue

mouth small , the eyes large and straight , and varying in colour from , while the hair is of all shades from black to blonde . The feet and hands are very large - while the body is hairy . But what is most characteristic is their great brachyeep haiy , the mean cephalic index of individuals observed by the traveller being 86-21 . J- Hjfalvy thinks that the purer in race a Galtcha is , the shorter is his head . Among the yellow race , the purest met with by M . Hjfalvy are the Mongol-Kalmitks , who inhaW