Mr. Tylor's elaborate and instructive work, entitled “Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization:”— “Hanging and burning in effigy is a proceeding which, in civilised countries at any rate, at last comes fairly out into pure symbolism. The idea that the burning of the straw and rag body should act upon the body of the original, perhaps hardly comes into the mind of any one who assists at such a performance. But it is not easy to determine how far this is the case with the New Zealanders, whose minds are full of confusion between object and image, as we may see by their witchcraft, and who also hold strong views about their effigies, and ferociously revenge an insult to them. One very curious practice has come out of their train of thought about this matter. They were very fond of wearing round their necks little hideous figures of green jade, with their heads very much on one side, which are called tilki, and are often to be seen in museums. It seems likely that they are merely images of Tiki, the god of the dead. They are carried as memorials of dead friends, and are sometimes taken off and wept and sung over by a circle of natives; but a tiki commonly belongs, not to the memory of a single individual, but of a succession of deceased persons who have worn it in their time, so that it cannot be considered as having in it much of the nature of a portrait.* Hale, in U. S. Exploring Exp.; Philadelphia, vol. vi., 1846, p. 23. Rev. W. Yate, “Account of New Zealand” London, 1835, p. Some New Zealanders, however, who were lately in London, were asked why these tikis usually, if not always, have but three fingers on their hands, and they replied that if an image is made of a man, and any one should insult it, the affront would have to be revenged, and to avoid such a contingency the tikis were made with only three fingers, so that, not being any one's image, no one was bound to notice what happened to them.” Although I have asked many Maoris the reason why the number of fingers in the figures is limited to three, I never received the explanation given in Mr. Tylor's book, which, however, a perusal of that work leads me to believe to be a correct one. I have requested Captain Mair and Mr. Hamlin (the Resident Magistrate at Maketu) to endeavour to acquire these figures, with a view of having them placed in the Wellington Museum, and I have some hopes that this may be done. In other respects, the carvings which I examined there are not very high even in the scale of Maori art. About a mile from Ohinemutu are the baths of Sulphur Point, to which numbers of persons resort for curative purposes. They appear to be effectual in various forms of cutaneous diseases, and to have given relief even in rheumatic affections. The surface of the ground, over a very large