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paving methods of research, inasmuch as " Germany, Austria, 

 England, France, and even America, figured side by side." 

 Dr. Topinard, who prepared the report on this subject, in- 

 sists upon the absolute necessity of having anthropometric 

 methods reduced to uniformity, and to this end suggests that 

 mutual concessions be made. On the whole, the method of 

 ascertaining the cubage of the skull invented by Morton 

 and perfected by Broca is most convenient. To this, as well 

 as to the proper method of orienting the skull, attention has 

 been called already. Mr. Charles Roberts has published, in 

 London, a "Manual of Anthropometry " for practical use. 



MEETINGS AND TRANSACTIONS. 



At the American Association in St. Louis, and in the Nash- 

 ville volume of Proceedings, many valuable anthropological 

 papers are reported. The subject of American aboriginal 

 philology is not neglected by the American Philological So- 

 ciety. Important contributions to archaeology are to be 

 found in the Transactions of the American Antiquarian So- 

 ciety of Worcester. The Peabody Museum of Cambridge 

 is foremost among our American institutions to foster an- 

 thropology. Reference must also be made to the publica- 

 tions of the American Geographical Society, and the Ethno- 

 logical Society, of New York; the American Philosophical 

 Society of Philadelphia; the Smithsonian Institution, the 

 Army Medical Museum, the Powell and the Hayden Sur- 

 veys, and the Report of the Indian Bureau, in Washington ; 

 the Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society, 

 the Central Ohio Scientific Association, and the Cincinnati 

 Society of Natural Sciences, in Ohio; the State Archaeolog- 

 ical Association of Indiana ; the Chicago Academy of Sci- 

 ences ; the Wisconsin Academy in Dubuque ; the Davenport 

 Academy in Iowa; the St. Louis Academy in St. Louis; the 

 California Academy in San Francisco. In addition to these, 

 the American Antiquarian, the American Naturalist, the 

 American Journal, the Popular Science Monthly, Harper's 

 Monthly, Harpers Weekly, and the Kansas City Peview, 

 among our periodicals, give more or less space to the sub- 

 ject. The American Bookseller and Index publishes month- 

 ly a list of papers and articles in nearly all first-class period- 

 icals upon all subjects relating to anthropology. 



