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brought out an edition of Schliemann's "Ancient Mycenae." 

 Attention is called to the following papers of general import: 

 Amber, etc., Dr. A. V. Bastelaer, Materiaux, No. 7 ; M. Franks, 

 ibid., 1876, No. 11 ; C. V. Baer, Archiv, vol. ix., part iv. ; Mor- 

 tillet, Bulletin of the Societe d'Anthropologie, 1876, No. 59 ; 

 Genthe, Lindenschmidt, and Hartmann in Archiv, 1877, Nos. 

 1 and 2 ; Dr. Heinrich Wankel, 31 itt he Hang en der Antliropolo- 

 gischen Gesellscliaft in Wien; Die Mineralogie als Htilfswis- 

 senschaft fiir Archiiologie, G. Fischer, Archiv, part iii. ; Pre- 

 historic Uses of Iron and Steel, St. J. Day, Athencmmi, Sept. 2 ; 

 the Fauna and Flora of Prehistoric Times, Professor Rolleston, 

 British Association, and Woldrich in Mittheilungen der An- 

 thropologischen Gesellscliaft in Wien, Nos. 4 and 5, 1 877 ; Mod 

 ern Excavations, J. P. Mabaffy, Contemporary lieview, April, 

 1877; Batons of Command, L. Pigorini, Materiaux, No. 2; 

 M. Mortillet's Classification, de Neuville, Materiaux, Nos. 3 

 and 4 ; The Antiquity of Man, Carl Vogt, Revue ticientifque, 

 May 5 and 12 ; S. R. Patteson, Journal Victoria Institute, 

 No. 10 ; Oppert in Nachrichten der Kdnigl. Gesellscliaft der 

 Wissenschaften zu Gottingen, Nov. 10, 1877 ; Quatrefages, 

 Mevue Scient{fique,eb. 3 ; De Marichard and M. Brocaat the 

 French Association ; " L'Homme Fossile en Europe," Le Hon, 

 new edition by M. Dupont ; Trepanation, De Mortillet, Mate- 

 riaux, No. 4, and Dr. Wankel in Mittheilungen der Anthropolo- 

 gischen Gesellscliaft in Wien, Nos. 4 and 5 ; Non-sepulchral 

 Monuments, J. Walhouse, Nature, March 8 ; Kitchen-middens, 

 W. Laws, Anthropological Institute, Dec. 11, 1876 ; Accumu- 

 lations of Silex, M. Puligny, French Association ; Primitive 

 Agriculture, Miss A. "YV. Buckland, Anthropological Institute, 



Aug. 



AFRICA. 



M. Hamy read a paper before the French Association on 

 the Stone Age among the Negro Races. Mr. George Gibbs, 

 of Turk's Island, in a letter to the Smithsonian Institution, 

 relates a conversation with some negroes wrecked on that 

 island, in which they recognized some celts shown them as 

 similar to those regarded as thunder-stones in their country. 



ASIA. 



J. T. Wood's "Discoveries at Ephesus" is published by 

 Longmans. R. B. Martin reported to the London Anthropo- 



