392 ANNUAL KECOHD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



In the fourth number is the address of Dr. Broca before the 

 International Congress of Anthropological Sciences. 



The great work of MM. de Quatrefages and Ilamy, en- 

 titled " Crania Ethniea," in which are figured and described 

 the Skulls in the Museum of Natural History and in the Mu- 

 seum of the Societe d' Anthropologic, of Paris, and in the 

 principal collections in France and foreign countries, has 

 reached its sixth part. The subject of Pathological Anatomy 

 is discussed by Dr. Bordier in the Revue d"> Anthropologic, 

 p. 70. In the same periodical, p. 703, Dr. Topinard makes a 

 report on the Anthropological Collections exhibited at the 

 Paris Exposition. The same author gives, pp. 499-509, "Es- 

 sai de Classification des Races humaines actuelles." 



The subject of Craniology has not been neglected in Ger- 

 many. Dr. Gildmeister, in Archiv, I. and II., investigates the 

 form of the skull in the northern Germans. In the same 

 journal, III., 1877, Dr. Heftier and Dr. Ecker discuss the 

 methods of comparing the skull with the surface of the 

 brain. In ~No. 7 of Correspondenzhlatt is a report on the 

 Craniometric Conference in Munich, 1877. With reference 

 to the great variety of methods in measuring and orienting 

 the skull, by which a great amount of painstaking is vitiated, 

 Dr. Topinard, in his report above alluded to, observes that 

 the method of cubage employed by Morton, and perfected 

 by Broca, is by far the simplest. He also advises uniting 

 upon the alveolo-condylian plane as the basis for orienting 

 the skull, since the plane of the two eyes, or orbital cavities, 

 is horizontal in man and all other mammals. A critical re- 

 view of the papers of an anthropological nature which have 

 appeared in the Archives de Medicine JVctvale from 1874 to 

 1876, by Dr. Bordier, will be found in the Jlevue d? Anthro- 

 pologic, pp. 319-327. 



In the Archwio per V Antropologia, vol. viii.,fasc. 2, pp. 267- 

 442, Professor Paul Mantegazza publishes an elaborate mem- 

 oir on the Third Molar in Different Paces of Men. In many 

 respects, this is the most thorough anthropological publica- 

 tion of the year. The conclusions stated at the end, based 

 on the examination of 277 crania, are not altogether favora- 

 ble to the theory of evolution. Dr. Lambert treats the same 

 subject in the American Journal for October, 1877. The 

 Teeth of the Mound-builders is the subject of a paper in 



