398 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Bordier says: "India is represented in our Exposition in 

 such a brilliant manner as to demand not only the pen of a 

 savant to describe it, but the taste and critical discrimina- 

 tion of an artist to appreciate it." 



In the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. 

 xxii., p. 255, is a description of Travels in Western China and 

 the Borders of Eastern Thibet, by Captain W. J. Gill. The 

 Journals and Proceedings of the Asiatic Societies of London, 

 Paris, and Germany, together with their branches in China, 

 must be our resource for progress of knowledge in Chinese 

 ethnography. Triibner's American and Oriental Record is 



indispensable. 



Oceauica. 



Upon the ethnography of Oceanica several very important 

 works have appeared. The Rev. S. J. Whitmee read a paper 

 on the Ethnography of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, be- 

 fore the Anthropological Institute, June 20, and publishes a 

 paper on the Characteristics of the Malayo-Polynesians in 

 the Journal of the same society, vol. vii., p. 372. The same 

 number contains a report by the Rev. M. G. Turner, on the 

 Ethnography of the Motu ; and reviews a lecture of Professor 

 W, H. Flower, before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 

 on the Native Races of the Pacific Ocean. Vol. VIII.,p. 38, 

 contains a discussion of the Original Range of the Papuan 

 and Negritto Races, by Francis A. Allen. The collections 

 from Australia and Polynesia at Paris were very instructive. 

 The chart of M. de Quatrefages showed the slow migration 

 towards the east of a people who, setting out from Bourou, 

 peopled successively not only the Solomon Islands, Samoa, 

 Tonga, and Taiti, but also New Zealand on the south, and 

 Hawaii on the north. 



DEMOGRAPHY. 



To Achille Guillard is due the credit of applying the term 

 Demography to the "natural history of society," the science 

 which reduces to numbers the facts of the social life of dif- 

 ferent races. Under the direction of the Societe d'Anthro- 

 pologie of Paiis, the study of demography is made a part of 

 the anthropological course. Dr. Bertillon lias the charge of 

 this department, and he has succeeded in giving the subject 

 shape and direction. The report on this subject at the 



