384 ANNUAL RECOED OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



publication of articles on anthropological topics, has a de- 

 partment on this subject, where notes and reviews of works 

 in all parts of the world are published. During the last year 

 valuable papers have appeared by Dall, Schumacher, Bowers, 

 Palmer, Barber, and others of equal merit. The Kansas City 

 lleview is very useful in disseminating a taste for this branch 

 of study in the West. The American Journal gives us two 

 papers of great value one by Professor Asa Gray, on Forest 

 Geography and Archaeology ; the other by Mr. McGee, upon 

 a Standard of Measure among the Ancient Mound-builders. 



The only mention of the Archaeology of the United States 

 in the report of the Committee at the Paris Exposition is of 

 a Collection of plaster-of-Paris Models of the Pueblos and 

 Cliff-dwellings of Arizona, made by Mr. William H. Jackson, 

 and sent by Professor F. V. Hayden. 



Mr. James C. Southall, of Richmond, Va., is the author of 

 a work entitled " The Epoch of the Mammoth and the Ap- 

 parition of Man on Earth." Although relating chiefly to 

 European materials, it refers also to our own stone age. The 

 author contends for an extremely brief residence of man on 

 earth. 



On Mexican archaeology, the pamphlet of Professor Valen- 

 tini, entitled " Vortrag iiber den Mexicanischen Calender- 

 stein," translated by Mr. Stephen Salisbury, in the Proceed- 

 in r/s of the American Antiquarian Society, No. VI, is a work 

 of rare merit, and may be reckoned among the permanent 

 productions of the year. In the same number of the Pro- 

 ceedings is a long communication upon the Autiquities of the 

 Isla Mujeres, on the northeast coast of Yucatan. The relics 

 were discovered by Dr. Le Plongeon, who has been very suc- 

 cessful among Maya remains. 



A very creditable publication entitled Anales del Museo 

 Nacional de Mexico has reached the fourth part, and con- 

 tains in each number communications on Mexican Antiqui- 

 ties. 



In the Zeitschrift fur Ethnologic, 1816, p. 322, Professor 

 Bastian announces the discovery of interesting sculptures at 

 Santa Lucia, near the city of Guatemala, which he purchased 

 for the Berlin Museum. But more than ten years previously, 

 Dr. Habel, of New York, travelling at his own expense, dis- 

 covered the sculptures, and copied and described them with 



