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sons in Samoa, Rev. Thos. Rowell, Linnrean Society, March 

 15; Obsidian Cutlers of Melos, Nature, Feb. 15 ; Chinese 

 Modes of Fishing, Popular Science Monthly, June; Irrigation 

 Works in India, B. Hartshorne, British Association ; The Ear- 

 liest Seat of the Domestication of Animals, V. Frantzius, Ar- 

 ehiv, parts i., ii. ; A New Domestic Dog of the Bronze Period, 

 Wbldrich, 3Iittheilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft 

 in Wien, Nos. 4 and 5 ; Crude and Curious Inventions at the 

 Centennial Exposition, E. H. Knight, Atlantic Monthly, March 



to December. 



Valuing. 



A Calendar of the Dakota Nations, Col. Garrick Mallery, 

 Hayden's Bulletin, vol. iii., No. 1. 



Music. 



On the Hindoo Octave, R. H. M. Bosanquet, Royal Society, 

 Feb. 8. Mr. Knight's articles named above treated in the 

 first chapters on Musical Instruments. 



Sports. 



The Horse as an Instrument of Gambling, Contemporary 

 Review, Aug. ; La Crosse, Canadian 3Io?ithly, April. 



The Family. 



" The Knot Tied," Win. Tegg, published by Tegg and Co., 

 London. The new edition of McLennan's " Primitive Mar- 

 riage" is reviewed by Lubbock, Nature, Dec. 14, 1876; On 

 the Evolution of the Family, Herbert Spencer, Popular Sci- 

 ence Monthly, several numbers; "Das Kind in Brauch and 

 Sitte der Volker," Dr. Ploss, Stuttgard, 2 vols. ; Infanticide, 

 C. A. Fyffe, Nineteenth Century, June ; English Nursery 

 Tales, W. R. S. Ralston, London Institute, Feb. 22; Turkish 

 Story-books, Nineteenth Century, No. 1. 



Social Life. 



" Meetings and Greetings," Wra. Tegg, London ; Aborig- 

 inal Funeral Customs, American Naturalist, April ; Folk 

 Dirges, Cornhill Magazine, Aug. ; Le Faste Funeraire, Pe- 

 vue des Deux Mondes, March and April ; Cremation in Sitka, 

 American Naturalist, June ; Bnrial of the Dead amono: the 

 Primitive Aryans, Materiaux, vol. ix. Dr. II. C. Yarrow will 



