INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1876. cxli 



Cochin China." Ausland, May 29th, reviews Rutimeyer's " Varia- 

 tions of the Animal Kingdom in Switzerland since the Presence of 

 Man there." The Smithsonian Report for 1875 reproduces De Can- 

 dolle's " Probable Future of the Human Race," from " History of 

 Science and Savans." 



IV. CULTURE. 



1. Comprehensive Treatises. The Westminster Review for July criti- 

 cises the works of Lubbock and Southall on the early phases of civ- 

 ilization. 



2. Food. On this subject we notice Dr. M. J. Schleiden on the 

 " History, Uses, and Symbolism of Salt." 



3. Dwellings and other Constructions. Vicomte F. de Langle con- 

 tributes to the Bull. Soc. de Oeog., June, 1876, an essay on " Monuments 

 Megalithiques." 



4. Vessels and Household Utensils. In Ausland, June 10th, will be 

 found an interesting paper on the early use of pot -stone {Lapis 

 ollaris). 



5. Lnpilements of War, the Chase, and Industry. Mr. Alfred W.How- 

 itt, writing from Baimsdale, Victoria, to Nature, July 20th, minutely 

 describes his experience with the boomerang. Professor George 

 Fischer, of Stuttgart, has published a work on "Nephrite and Jade- 

 ite in their Mineralogical Character, and in their Prehistoric and 

 Ethnographical Relation" {Corr.-Blatt., No. 12, 1875). In Nos. 10 

 and 11 of Materiaux for 1875, M. Mortillet contends for the East 

 Indian origin of bronze. Madame Clemence contributes to Revue 

 d'Anth. one of her characteristic jjapers on " Fire among Primitive 

 Peoples." Dr. Biichner writes in Gaea (III., 1876) uj)on the kindred 

 subject, "Die Aeltesten Feuerzeuge." 



6. Domestication. Upon the history of the horse attention is called 

 to M. C. A. Pietrement's publications in Paris. M. Hovelacque has 

 published at Paris also a treatise on the " Dog in the Avesta." 



7. Valuing and Measuring. A communication to the London Phil- 

 osophical Society, March 22d, treated of " Coinage in Ancient and 

 Modern Times." 



8. Music. Professor Carl Engel's descriptive catalogue of the 

 musical instruments in the South Kensington Museum is prefaced 

 by an essay upon the history of musical apparatus. 



9. Art. Upon this subject the following treatises have come before 

 us: " Artes Africanse," by Dr. George Schweinfurth ; "The Artistic 

 Skill of the Africans," Ausland, Nov. and Dec, 1875; "Analysis of 

 the Life Form in Art," Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, 1875 ; " Vorgeschichte 

 der Kunst," Dr. O. Hostiusky, Ausland, June 24th, 1876 ; " L'Art et 

 ses Progr^s depuis I'Antiquitg," fimile Soldi, Paris, 1876 ; " A Man- 

 ual of the Historical Development of Art," G. G. Zerffi, London. 



10. Language. The two volumes of Abb6 P^titot, previously re- 



