cxxxvi GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



glyphic writing, upon the Eastern Island is announced in the Qeo- 

 graphical Magazine for May. 



II. ETHNOGRAPHY. 



North America. The translation of Dr. Rink's " Tales and Tradi- 

 tions of the Esquimaux," by Dr. Brown, places the investigations of 

 the learned Dane within the reach of English-speaking students. 

 The researches of AbbS Petitot among the Tchiglit Esquimaux and 

 the D^nfe-Dindjie (Tinneh) Indians have been published through the 

 generosity of M. Pinart, as Vols. II. and JII. of his " Biblioth^que de 

 Linguistique." 



At the American Association at Buffalo the following communica- 

 tions were made upon North American ethnography : " The Iroquois 

 Gens, Phratry, and Tribe," by Hon. L. H. Morgan ; " Hybridity and 

 Absorption among the Races of the New World," by Dr. Daniel 

 Wilson ; " The Mythology of the North American Indians," by J. 

 W. Powell. 



Very instructive manuscripts upon the Indian tribes of the United 

 States have been sent in with the Centennial collections, by J. G. Swan, 

 Rev. M. Eels, Stephen Powers, Rev. Stephen Bowers, Major J.W. 

 Powell, and others. These will appear, from time to time, among 

 the publications of the Smithsonian Institution. In Das Ausland for 

 May 29th, Ado Hunnius gives a full statistical report of the Indians 

 of the United States, drawn from official sources. 



Middle America. Professor W. M. Gabb, in a communication al- 

 ready referred to, and published in the Transactions of the American 

 Philosophical Society, June to December, 1875, gives an elaborate 

 account of the Indian tribes and language of Costa Rica. There is 

 scarcely a topic in Herbert Spencer's " Descriptive Sociology " that 

 is not treated in this paper. 



"The Anthropology of the Antilles" is the subject of a paper, by 

 M. Cornilhac, in the first volume of the Proceedings of the Soci^te 

 des Americanistes. 



South America. The Smithsonian Institution is in receipt of a 

 manuscript from Lieutenant Harrison describing the natives along 

 the Ucayali River, in Peru. 



Wm. Gifford Palgrave, the author of a charming book of travels 

 in Arabia, publishes, through Macmillan & Co., an account of a jour- 

 ney to Dutch Guiana. 



Professor Hartt has found time to gather into a small pamphlet, 

 published at Rio Janeiro, a collection of Amazonian tortoise myths. 



In the November (1875) Bulletin of the Society de Geographic, M. 

 Maguins gives an account of a visit to Tierra del Fuego. The Revue 

 Scientijique describes an expedition to Patagonia by Dr. Carl Berg. 



