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a communication on Brain-weight of the Chinese and Pelew- 

 Islandera In Abhandl. der Konigl. Akad., Berlin, 1876, Pro- 

 fessor Virchow has a valuable paper on the Physical Charac- 

 teristics of the Germans. In the Bulletin of the Societe d'An- 

 thropologie, 1870, p. 23, M. Roujou discusses the proportions 

 of the Humerus and Femur. In the same volume is a criticism 

 of the Parietal Angle of De Quatrefages by M. Topinard. At 

 the French Association M. Parrot read a paper on Cranial 

 Deformations occasioned by Hereditary Syphilis. The pa- 

 per awakened a learned discussion by several anthropologists 

 present. Dr. Gildemeister, Archiv, parts i., ii., advocates the 

 adoption of a system of cranial measurement to be settled 

 by common consent. Dr. A. Ecker contributes to ArcJtiv, 

 part iii., an illustrated paper upon Cranio-cerebral Topog- 

 raphy. 



Governor Bross read a paper before the American Associa- 

 tion entitled "All Life Conditionally Immortal." Revised 

 editions of George H. Lewes's "Physical Basis of Mind" and 

 Dr. Maudsley's "Physiology of the Mind" have appeared 

 during the year. In the Bevue Scientifiqiie Fr. Paulhan at- 

 tempts to establish a physical basis of sensibility in an article 

 entitled "Le Plaisir et la Douleur." Charles Darwin con- 

 tributes to Mind, for July, a Biographical Sketch of an Infant. 

 Albert J. Mott read before the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, Liverpool, a review of " Haeckel's History of Crea- 

 tion," characterizing it as an attempt to dogmatize where 

 nothing is known. Additional contributions to the subject 

 are the following: "The Struggle of Life," Arthur Nichols, 

 Longmans (see Nature, Dec. 7, 1876) ; Sur la Taille, etc., 

 M. Topinard, Bulletin of the Societe d'Anthropologie, 1866, 

 p. 410; " Anthropologic Zoologique et Biologique," Broca, 

 Reinwald, and Co. ; Methode de Biologie Humaine,Delauney, 

 Bulletin of the Societe d'Anthropologie, 1876, p. 586 ; Pro- 

 fessor Haeckel's Address before the German Association on 

 the Evolution Theory in Relation to Science in General ; The 

 Influence of Civilization on the Duration of Life, C. T. Lewis, 

 in the Sanitarian; Evolution of Man, Rev. J. F. Blake, Sun- 

 day Lecture Society, Jan. ; Comparison of the Index and Ring 

 Fingers, Francis Galton, Nature, Sept. 20 ; on the Physiolog- 

 ical Effects of a very Warm Climate, Dr. O. Loew, Wheeler's 

 Rep., 1876; on Labor and Longevity, R. B. Carter, Sunday 



