cxviii GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



implements, etc. Dr. Berendt also publishes in Nature and 

 the Academy accounts of his researches in Nicaragua. 



Mr. Thomas Hutchinson publishes his " Two Years in 

 Peru, with Explorations of its Antiquities." London, 2 vols., 

 8vo. 



Dr. Conto Magalhaes has published at Rio Janeiro a work 

 in Portuguese upon the Anthropology of Brazil. He con- 

 cludes that man has existed in Brazil 100,000 years; that 

 some of the native languages (the Quichua, for instance) have 

 borrowed about 2000 roots from the Sanskrit. He makes the 

 tall, dark tribes, like the Guaicuru of Matto Grosso, to be 

 the primitive stock, and derives the other shorter and lighter 

 races from a mixture of these with white races in prehistoric 

 times. 



The Seventh Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody 

 Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology gives an 

 account of the valuable series of objects connected with the 

 South American Pacific Archaeology which Professor Ajj-as- 

 siz acquired during his voyage in the Sassier in 1871-72. 



The Revue oV "Anthropologies ol. III., No. 1, 1874, has an ac- 

 count of the discovery of some prehistoric burying-grounds 

 and ancient Indian habitations in Patagonia,by M. G. deRialle. 

 Colonel Lane Fox read before the Anthropological Institute, 

 November 10, a paper upon a series of flint and chert imple- 

 ments from Patagonia. 



Europe. Professor Worsaae is the author of a treatise in 

 which he derives the earliest culture in the North of Europe 

 from Asia and North Africa, and maintains that the " move- 

 ment of civilization, since the bejjinninar of the Stone A^e, 

 has taken the same northeasterly direction. 



Grewingk publishes in Archil fur Anthropologie an arti- 

 cle " Zur Archaeologie des Balticum und Russlands." 



To Mr. J. Sawisza belongs the merit of having explored two 

 caves situated in the valley of Wierszchow, near Cracow, 

 Austrian Poland. One of them, called "Mammoth Cave," 

 yielded remains of the mammoth, cave bear, brown bear, elk, 

 stag, reindeer, roe, horse, bison, wild boar, wolf, fox, etc. Nu- 

 clei and primitive implements of flint and pierced teeth of 

 animals abounded, but there was no trace of pottery. An- 

 other cave in the neighborhood seems to have been the 

 abode of man at a later period, as indicated by the later ani- 



