394 ANNUAL KECOKD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Personal in the Mississippi Valley. In Nos. 1 and 2 of the 

 American Antiquarian, the editor works up the location of 

 ancient tribes in the States formerly called the Northwest 

 Territory. Volume III. of "Contributions to North Ameri- 

 can Ethnology " is the most important addition to the knowl- 

 edge of our aborigines issued during the year. It is one of 

 a series to be published by Major J. W. Powell, under the 

 auspices of the Secretary of the Interior. The first part of 

 the volume is by Stephen Powers, on the Tribes of Califor- 

 nia. The second part is a collection of linguistics of the 

 following families : Ka-rok, Yu-rok, Chim-a-ri-ko, Wish-osk', 

 Yu-ki, P6-mo, Win-tun', Mut-sun', Santa Barbara, Y6-kuts, 

 Mai-du, A-cho-ma'-wi, and Shas'-ti. The vocabularies were 

 collected mainly under the auspices of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, and were edited by Major Powell. A good account 

 of Major Powell's work will be found in the "Annual Report 

 of the Smithsonian Institution" for 1877, pp. 82-86. The 

 paper of Colonel Garrick Mallery, on the Present and For- 

 mer Population of the United States, read before the Nash- 

 ville meeting of the American Association, and published in 

 the Proceedings, has elicited much comment at home and 

 abroad, and has begun to bear fruit in shaping legislation 

 with reference to savage races. Further discussions upon 

 the Tribes of the United States, by Barber, Palmer, and 

 Spring, will be found in the American Naturalist, and in 

 Globus, 1877, vol. xxxii., pp. 281, 295. 



Les Premiers Habitants du Mexique is the title of a paper 

 by M. E. Hamy, in the Revue aV Anthropologic, p. 56 ; but the 

 best account of the ancient Mexican civilization by far is the 

 monograph on the Distribution and Tenure of Lands, and the 

 Customs with respect to Inheritance among the Ancient Mex- 

 icans, by Ad. F. Bandelier, in the eleventh "Annual Report of 

 the Peabody Museum." The work is crowded with references, 

 and bristles with research. The author belongs to the Mor- 

 gan school, and whether all his deductions are to be accepted 

 or not, we can afford to have much of the ancient glamour 

 removed from the study of Mexican history. M. Malte-Brun 

 has reproduced, with improvements, Orozco y Berras' eth- 

 nographic map of Mexico, under the title "Tableau geogra- 

 phique de la Distribution ethnographiquc des Nations et des 

 Langues an Mexique," published by Cropin-Lcblond, Nancy. 



