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land the sole relics of bronze art-work from Lake Van. Mr. 

 W. St. Chad Boscawen gives us a compendious account of 

 the primitive culture of Babylonia in the Journal of the An- 

 thropological Institute, p. 21. The London Quarterly Re- 

 view for January has an epitome of the Study of Assyriol- 



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For India, the reader is referred to Triibner's American and 

 Oriental Record, and to the three great societies mentioned 

 above. Major -General Cunningham publishes Vol. I. of 

 " Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum," Inscriptions of Asoka. 

 The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society frequently 

 contains archaeological papers. In Vol. XL VII. will be found 

 papers by Sir T. Douglas Forsyth, on the Buried Cities in the 

 Shifting Sands of the Great Desert of Gobi. 



Abbe Petitot, whose works on Eskimo and the Tinne In- 

 dians have become celebrated, contributes to the Revue d? An- 

 thropologic a paper upon Tahan et les Pays des Femmes, de 

 l'llistorien Chinois Li-you-Tcheou, which is an attempt to 

 connect the Chinese with the early settlement of America. 

 The same journal, p. G6Q, contains a communication on the 

 Ruins in Cambodia called Khmers. At the Paris Exposition, 

 in the hall of Missions, Trocadero Palace, there was a fine 

 exhibit of these ruins. Of them Dr. Bordier says: "These 

 antique structures, the Khmers of Angkor, to which should 

 be added the ruins of Bouro-Boudor in Java, exhibit a bold- 

 ness of construction, with a finesse in handling the Ara- 

 besques, which recalls the Renaissance. These monuments, 

 erected in honor of Buddha, and to-day filled with fallen 

 leaves, await the light of scholarly science." 



Professor Morse, who has been employed by the Japanese 

 government to work up the geology and natural history of 

 the country, has discovered shell-heaps near Tokio, and in 

 them pottery referred to a prehistoric race, whose ornamen- 

 tation resembles the patterns on the dress of the Ainos. 



OCEANICA. 



The island of New Zealand boasts an Institute, whose 

 Transactions contain many archaeological papers from the 

 pen of Mr. Hector and of Mr. Von Haast. In the Journal of 

 the Anthropological Institute, p. 50, the latter gentleman de- 

 scribes a series of rock-paintings in New Zealand. 



