cxxxii GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



among other things, for the missing journal and papers of 

 Dr. Livingstone. 



Madagascar and its people are described by James Sidbree 

 in an octavo volume, published in London. 



A review of "Die Eingjebornen Siid-Afrika's, ethnosra- 

 phisch und anatomisch beschrieben," occurs in Nature, April 

 23,1874. 



Dr. Bleek has made to the House of Assembly of Cape 

 Colony his report on "Researches into the Bushman Lan- 

 guage." He has had the advantage for two years and a 

 half of the constant presence of two Bushmen, from whom he 

 has taken down more than four thousand columns of text, 

 besides genealogical tables, animal and stellar myths, etc. 



Australia. The Mixed Races of Australia are the subject 

 of an interesting paper by the Rev. George Taplin, before the 

 Anthropological Institute, March 10, 1874. 



In Nature, October 29, 1874, is an account of a letter from 

 William Ridley, of Paddington, Sydney, Australia, to Sir 

 John Lubbock, in which are some wonderful confirmations 

 of statements made in the "Origin of Civilization," drawn 

 from the aboriginal Murri race. 



New Guinea. The travels of Dr. A. B. Meyer, and of Luigi 

 Maria d'Albertis, in New Guinea, are noticed in Nature, De- 

 cember 4, 1873, and those of Dr. Von Miklucho Maclay in 

 Nature, February 26, 1874. The announcement is made in 

 Academy, October 24, 1874, that the latter has made prep- 

 arations for undertaking another expedition to New Guinea, 

 in order to devote himself to the ethnological and linguistic 

 peculiarities of the various tribes. He will also carry on a 

 systematic series of geological and meteorological observa- 

 tions. 



In Aus der Natur, November 21, 1874, will be found an ac- 

 count entitled "Die Samoagruppe, ihre Bewohner und Er- 

 zeugnisse." 



ZOOLOGY. 



On comparative physiology, from the side of zoology, a 

 series of lectures, by M. Claude Bernard, have appeared in La 

 Revue Scientifique. One of the numbers contains a review 

 of what is known on the impregnation of the egg, and the 

 law of production of the sexes. He thinks that the problem 



