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Reoieic, July ; Proceedings of the Geograi^hical Society^ June, p. 253, 266 ; 

 Jour. Anth. Inst., April 25th and June 13th ; Nature., Dec. 25th, 1875, 

 Jan. 20th, March 9th, June 1st and 8th, 1876 ; Academy, Feb. 19th. 



In the Jour. Anth. List, for April, Mr. James Hector speaks of" Cer- 

 tain Early Forms of Stone Implements in New Zealand." The Rev. 

 Wyatt Gill has, during the year, presented to the Anthropological 

 Institute papers on " The Traditions of the Hervey Islanders," " The 

 Origin of the South Sea Islanders," and " The South Sea Island 

 Mythology." The last-named article is reviewed at length in the 

 London Quarterly Review for July. The Rev. S. J. Whitmee, in Nature., 

 June 29th, makes some sound observations on the errors which have 

 been made in estimating the population of a countiy by the census 

 of the sea-coast. Mr. Rankin contributes to the Jour. Anth. Inst, for 

 July information upon the South Sea Islanders. Professor Busk has 

 examined skulls from the Hebrides, some of which show signs of 

 artificial compression {Antli. //isf,, June 13th). Peschel's " Volker- 

 kunde" has appeared in an English translation, published by D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co., and supplies a felt w^ant of a compendious work on 

 the whole field of anthropology. 



III. DEDUCTIVE ANTHROPOLOGY. 



1. Origin and Antiquity of Man. The Quarterly Journal of Science 

 for October contains an article upon the " Cradle of Civilization." 

 "The Origin and Development of Man," is the title of a critique on 

 Lubbock, Tylor, Lyell, and Huxley, in the Westminster Remeio for 

 January. Mr. A. R.Wallace, in opening the Anthropological Section 

 of the British Association, was pleased to speak in the highest terms 

 of the theory of Mr. Darwin in its application to man, but also to 

 enumerate some of the difficulties which still stand in the way of its 

 total recognition. On the other hand, Dr. Ernst Haeckel takes the 

 broad ground that, from beginning to end, all animated creation is 

 the fruit of " transmission and adaptation." Professor Flower took 

 the occasion of his Hunterian lecture on the "Relation of Extinct to 

 Existing Mammalia " to speak of the geological origin of man. Mr. 

 Frank Clarkson spoke on the "Antiquity of Man" before the Junior 

 Philosophical Society, June 19th. In Mem. de la Soc. d''midation 

 des Cotes -du-Nord, M.Victor Micault discusses the various time- 

 measures furnished by geology for ascertaining the antiquity of man. 



2. Anatomical and Physiological Investigations. The study of cra- 

 nio-cerebral topography promises to place phrenological research- 

 es on a new basis. The subject as treated by Gratiolet, Bischofi^, 

 Hunter, Ecker, Heftier, Fere, and others is fully reviewed, with il- 

 lustrations, by Dr. Paul Broca, in Revue d' Antliroiwlogie, No. 2, 1876. 

 The author also gives his own views in extenso. The value of tlie 

 "Orbital Index" is treated in the same journal, No. 4, 1876. Dr. 

 Ecker, in discussing the fluctuating character of the human hand 



