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habitants of the Admiralty Islands, II. N.Moseley, Anthropo- 

 logical Institute, Jan. 9 ; the Natives of Socotra, J. Hunter, 

 British Association; Old and New Zealand, Academy, Nov. 

 18; The South Sea Islanders, W. L. Rankin, Anthropological 

 Institute, Jan., 1877; The Dying-out of Polynesian Races, 

 Mr. Wedderbum, Fortnightly; The Polynesian Race, Abra- 

 ham Fornander, vol. iii., English and Foreign Phil. Library. 



General Discussions. 



" The Origin of Nations," George Rawlinson, Scribner's re- 

 print ; L'Espece Humaine, De Quatrefages, Revue Scien- 

 tifique, March 24 ; Negro and White Races, C. II. Fort, Amer- 

 ican Journal of Obstetrics, April. 



DEMOGRAPHY. 



Mr. Francis Galton,who is almost the creator of this de- 

 partment of ethnology, delivered an address before the De- 

 partment of Anthropology, Section D, British Association, on 

 the Application of Statistics to Anthropological Researches, 

 American Journal, vol. xiv., p. 265. The same author read a 

 paper before the Royal Institution, Feb. 9, on the Typical 

 Laws of Heredity. Further communications are : Demo- 

 graphic de la Seine Inferieure, Dr. Bertillon, French Associa- 

 tion ; The Growth of Children, Professor II. P. Bowditch, 

 State Board of Health, Mass. Behm and Wagner's "Bevol- 

 kerung der Erde " forms the forty-ninth Supplement to Peter- 

 mann's Mittheihmgen. Color of the Hair, Eyes, and Skin of 

 German Children, Professor Virchow, German Anthropolog- 

 ical Society. 



PHILOLOGY. 



America. 



Major J. W. Powell, now in charge of all the American 

 linguistic material collected by the Smithsonian Institution, 

 has largely added thereto from other sources; and, in or- 

 der to make thorough work, has issued a pamphlet of instruc- 

 tions to collectors, entitled " Introduction to the Study of 

 Indian Languages, witli Words, Phrases, and Sentences to be 

 Collected." The first volume of Major Powell's "Contribu- 

 tions to American Ethnology" contains the Niskwally Gram- 



