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Major Powell Cotton, in the year 1907, gives his experience of life among the Pygmies of the Congo Forest, and describes them as “small dark-coloured people under the middle height.”

Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston, also in 1907, returned to civilisation through the Congo Forest and the volcanic region of Mfumbiro, and says the tops of the extinct volcanoes are covered with dense bamboo and inhabited by a Pygmy race.

In Central Mexico we have relics of a Pygmy people, the dried head of one being offered in Mr. Steven’s London auction room this year (1907).

The last surviving Aztecs, a very diminutive people, we remember to have seen exhibited in Manchester thirty years ago.

All these instances point to diminutive or Pygmy races of men scattered over the world.

As the literature on this subject is so limited, we venture to name the authorities quoted:—

 Herodotus.

 Pliny.

 Homer.

 Philostratus.

 Aristotle.

 British Museum, Guide to Stone Age, by C. H. Read, Esq.

 Dr. Colley March, of Rochdale.

 W. H. Sutcliffe, Esq., of Littleborough, Lancashire.

 The Rev. Reginald A. Gatty, LL.B., of Hooton Roberts, Doncaster.

 Dr. Sturge, formerly of Nice, now of Mildenhall, Cambridge.

 The late A. C. Carlleyle, Esq., of the Archæological Survey of India.

 M. de Pierpoint, of Brussels.

 M. Thieullen, of Paris.

 Sir John Evans.

 Professor Boyd Dawkins.

 Professor Windle, of Birmingham.

 Major Powell Cotton.

 Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston.

 Vincent A. Smith, Esq., M.A.