G. GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY AND ZOOLOGY. 329 



PRESENT POPULATION OF THE GLOBE. 



In an elaborate paper by Behm and Wagner, published in 

 Petermann's Mittheilungen, we have the result of a careful 

 inquiry into the present population of the globe, the summa- 

 tion of their results being as follows: Europe, 301,600,000 ; 

 Asia, 794,000,000 ; Australia and Polynesia, 4,365,000; Africa, 

 192,520,000; America, 84,524,000 ; or a total of 1,377,000,000. 

 These figures are derived from the estimates or statistics of 

 population for the years 1869, 1870, and 1871. 



In the enumeration of the population of towns, London 

 stands at the head, with 3,251,000 ; next Su-tschan, in China, 

 with 2,000,000; Paris, 1,835,000 ; Pekin, 1,648,000 ; Jeddo, 

 1,554,000; Canton, 1,236,000 ; Constantinople, 1,075,000 ; Si- 

 ang-tau, China, 1,000,000 ; Tschan-tschaufu, China, 1 ,000,000 ; 

 New York, 942,292 ; Vienna, 833,855 ; Berlin, 825,389.-1 7 C, 

 Supplement No. 33, 1872 ; 86. 



ARCHAEOLOGY IN AMERICA. 



A few years ago Dr. Schmidt, of Essen, Germany, visited 

 the United States for the special purpose of investigating cer- 

 tain questions connected with the archaeology and ethnology 

 of America. He devoted special attention to the investiga- 

 tion of the crania of the aboriginal tribes of America, both 

 ancient and modern, and after his return prepared a memoir 

 detailing the result of some of his inquiries, which has just 

 been published in the Archiv filr Anthropologic. He passes 

 in review various well-known crania, some of which are in the 

 Army Medical Museum at Washington, Professor Whitney's 

 Calaveras skull, the human pelvis found by Mr. W.Dickin- 

 son in the blufts of Natchez, and others, including the alleged 

 discoveries of human remains in the post-pliocene beds at 

 Charleston. 



As a summary of his observations, he remarks that five 

 well-authenticated instances of human remains of extreme 

 antiquity have come to his knowledge : first, those referred 

 to by Holmes in South Carolina; second, implements found 

 in caves in Anguilla ; third, the California skull; fourth, the 

 human pelvis found in the bluff; and, fifth, a skull found in 

 a limestone fissure in the drift formation in Illinois, and pre- 



