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the Dental Cosmos for September. C. Lambroso discusses 

 the Influence of Orography upon Stature in the Archivio cli 

 Statistica, Rome, fasc. 3. 



In the Archivio, pp. 189-266, Dr. Paul Ricardi describes a 

 Skeleton from Acheen, in the northwest of Sumatra. M. E. 

 Callamand makes a communication to the Revue cT Anthro- 

 pologic, pp. 607-625, upon the Skulls of the Black Races of 

 India. Dr. Stuart Eldridge read a paper before the Asiatic 

 Society of Japan, on the Crania of the Botans of Formosa, 

 which is printed in Vol. V. of the Proceedings. 



ETHNOGRAPHY. 



Ethnography, or the description of races, is the connecting 

 link between Biological Anthropology, on the one hand, and 

 Sociology on the other. It is that division of the subject 

 which is most attractive to the mass of intelligent people, 

 and to which they can most easily contribute. The greater 

 part of its facts and materials have been gathered by travel- 

 lers or business men, who visit every corner of the world in 

 pursuance of their duties. The navies of the various leading 

 nations, the merchant marine, foreign troops, missionaries, 

 newspaper reporters, and diplomats have all rendered im- 

 portant service to Ethnography. The work accomplished 

 during the year includes organized expeditions for the pur- 

 pose of gathering materials, as well as the description and 

 exhibition of what was already in hand. 



America. 



The Geographical Magazine for February, March, and 

 April publishes the memoirs of Plans Hendrik, the Green- 

 land Eskimo, who served in the expeditions of Kane, Hayes, 

 Hall, and Sir George Nares. The Greenland Eskimo are the 

 subject of an article in Das Ausland, Nos. 1 and 2. A group 

 of them were on exhibition at the Jardin d'Acclimation, dur- 

 ing the Paris Exposition. In the American Naturalist for 

 January, Mr. Dall gives a sketch of the Eskimos of Norton 

 Sound, reproducing two very charming romances to illus- 

 trate the scope which savage life affords for individuality. 

 The Hon. J. G. Henderson read a paper before the American 

 Association, on Ancient Names Geographical, Tribal, and 



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