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Walker's paper before the Anthropological Institute on the " Re- 

 ligion, Politics, and Commerce of the Old Calabar Coast ;" in M. 

 Hovelacque's article in Revue cVAnthrojyologie^ No. 3, on the " Caflfres ;" 

 in Dr. B. Ferrand's contribution to the third part of the same journal 

 on the " Oulofs of Senegambia ;" in Captain Cameron's speeches be- 

 fore the Geographical Society, April 11th, the Anthropological In- 

 stitute, May 23d, and at the British Association ; in Dr. Hartmann's 

 work on the " Nigritians," published in Berlin ; in Dr. Mullen's pa- 

 per in the Jour. Anth. Inst.,Y., 181, on the "Origin and Progress 

 of the People of Madagascar ;" and in No. 4 of Herbert Spencer's 

 " Descriptive Sociology." 



Asia. M. Ujfalvy has been intrusted by the French Minister of 

 Instruction with the preparation of a work on the ethnographical, 

 linguistic, and historical characteristics of the people of Russia and 

 Central Asia. VExj^hrateur, of May 18th, contains an account of 

 the principal indigenous tribes of Eastern Siberia, from "La Siberie 

 Orientale, et I'AmSrique Russe," of M. Octave Sachat. At a meeting 

 of the Ethnological Section of the Russian Geographical Society, 

 May 13th, M. Venioukoff's recommendation to publish a catalogue 

 of all books and articles relating to Higher Asia and its inhabitants 

 was adopted. 



Messrs. Sampson & Low publish a translation of Lieutenant Pre- 

 jevalsky's " Mongolia," with an introduction by Colonel Henry Yule. 

 The lieutenant will conduct to Central Asia a party, to be gone three 

 years. Ethnological investigations will be a prominent feature of 

 their work. 



In the British Quarterly^ Jan., 1876, is an article on the " Dervishes 

 of Islam," attempting to compare them with the prophets of the Old 

 Testament. 



Mr. Alfred Morgan read a paper before the Philosophical and Lit- 

 erary Society of Liverpool, January 10th, on the Khasi Hill Tribes 

 of Northeastern Bengal. In the Jour. Anth. Inst, for April, Mr. J. Wal- 

 house describes the Bhutas devil and ghost worshipers in India. 

 Professor Childers, in Contemp. Revieio for April, has an article en- 

 titled " The Whole Duty of the Buddhist Layman." 



Maisonneuve &> Co., Paris, have published for C. A. Pi^trement a 

 pamphlet upon the origin of the Chinese, and the introduction of 

 the horse into China. The Argonaut., for July 1st, has an article on 

 the " Amusements of the Chinese." 



In the Jour. Anth. Inst, for July, Mr. E. B, Tylor discusses the myths 

 of the Japanese. 



Oceanica. The attention of European anthropologists is turned 

 especially to New Guinea. Articles on this subject may be found 

 under the following references: Archiv fur Ajith., May ; Edbiburgh 



