INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1876. cxxxiii 



ain to a preglacial, or at least to an interglacial epoch. Mr. Hughes 

 however, objects to the theory. The subject is discussed in Nature 

 for September 21st, October 5th, and November 23d. 



At the session of the anthropological section of the French Asso- 

 ciation, August 23, 1875, M.Valdemar Schmidt discussed the funeral 

 rites of Scandinavia and other parts of the world. The subject of 

 Swedish archaeology is made accessible by a work entitled " Biblio- 

 graphic de I'Archgologie prehistorique de la Su^de jDcndant le XIX^ 

 Si^cle." Stockholm, 1875, lOG pp. 8vo. 



The Eevue d^A7ithropologie for February contains the description 

 of the celebrated tumulus of Eshoj, in Denmark, by Professor C. 

 Engelhardt. 



Upon Russian archaeology and antiquities the following treatises 

 may be consulted : " tude sur les peuples primitifs de la Russie ; 

 Les Meriens," by Count Ouvaroff, in MaUriaux for May ; " The North- 

 ern and Northeastern Frontages of the Indo- Europeans in Early 

 Times," Anthropological Institute, H. H. Howorth. 



In France the greatest interest is manifested in archaeological mat- 

 ters. The three journals noticed in the preceding volumes of the 

 Record continue their able editorial stafls, and are really the highest 

 authority upon the French side of disputed questions. We select a 

 few titles from many quite as able and important : " Super j)osition 

 du Solutreen au Moust6rien, a Thorigng," Materiaux, No. 4 ; Etudes 

 sur quelques monuments megalithiques de la vallee de I'Oise," by 

 Am. de Caix de St. Aymour (ilnd.) ; " Les Tombes lacustres d'Auver- 

 nier," Dr.V. Gross (ibid.) ; " Histoire des mammif ^res quaternaires ou 

 actuels de nos pays," J. Gaudry, No. 5 ; " Note sur la decouverte 

 d'une station humain de I'gpoque de la pierre polie prfes de Belfort," 

 Ch. Grad (ibid.) The " Horse of Solutr6" is discussed by E. Trutat, 

 in the Bulletin de la Society d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, 1874- 

 1875. M.Vacher read a paper at the French Association upon the 

 " Ancient places of adoration and upon traces of pagan worship in 

 Auvergne and in Lemousin." In No. 3 of Comptes-Rendus there is an 

 article by M. Jaubert upon human remains in the grottoes of different 

 parts of Provence. The Rev.W. C. Lukis, through Johnson & Co., 

 London, publishes a guide to the chambered barrows of South Brit- 

 tany. The object of this Manual is to enable tourists to make good 

 use of their time in visiting the dolmens of Morbihan, etc. 



Drs, Rehman and A. Ecker contribute to the Archiv fur Anthi'o- 

 pologie an article on the quaternary fauna of the valley of the Donau. 

 There is a growing disposition among German archaeologists to set 

 aside the division of the prehistoric age into palaeolithic, neolithic, 

 bronze, and iron periods ; and several discussions have been publish- 

 ed, not only in Arcliiv^ but also in Das Ausland and other German 

 periodicals, looking toward the adoption of two periods only the 

 stone and the metallic. 



