cxlii GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



ferred to, must be recalled here. M. Coudereau is the author of a 

 very elaborate paper in Bull. Soc. d^Anth.,l^o. 3, 1875, entitled "Essai 

 de Classification des Bruits Articules," Attention is called to Rev. A. 

 H. Sayce's review of Hovelacque, Nature., Aug. 10th ; "Language and 

 Race," Jour. Anth. Inst., V., II., 212 ; " The Jelly-fish Theory of Lan- 

 guage," Contemp. Bev.., April, 1876 ; and " The Introduction to the 

 Science of Language." Mr. Hyde Clarke contributes to the Jour. 

 Anth. Inst, interesting f)af)ers on prehistoric language {Nature, May 

 25th ; Athenamm, Aug. 5th) ; The Fifth Annual Address of the Rev. 

 Richard Morris before the London Philological Society, May 19th, is 

 an admirable summary in this special field. The author had the aid 

 of Dr. J. Muir and Professor Eggeling on Sanskrit ; of Ujfalvy on the 

 Ugro-Fiunish ; of Dr. Neubauer on Talmudical and Rabbinical Liter- 

 ature ; of the Rev. A. H. Sayce on the Etruscan ; of R. N. Cust on the 

 Non-Aryan Languages of India ; of Dr. J. H. Trumbull on N. A. In- 

 dian Languages ; of Edouard Naville on the Egyptian ; and of Dr. 

 Kolbing on Teutonic Languages. 



11. The Family. "La Famiglia e la Societa negli Animali e nell' 

 uomo " is the name of an article in Rivista Anth. ed Eth. 



12. Social Life and Customs. The following treatises are to be no- 

 ticed : " La Trepanation Prehistorique," J. de Baye, Paris ; " Crema- 

 tion," DuUin EevieiD, No. 157 ; " Les Rites Funeraires," etc., M. Royer, 

 Sev. d'Anth.,1^0. 3 ; " The Last Act," Wm. Tegg, London; " Sur Tusage 

 des Batons de Main," F. Chabas, 1876 ; " Wege und Ziele der Oeko- 

 nomie," Dr. Weiss, Ausland, June 5th, 1876. 



13. Religion. Our space allows us merely to call attention to the 

 following : M. Mortillet's address before the French Association on 

 the " Origin of Superstitions ;" Tide's " Law of Religious Develop- 

 ment," Rev. Politique, Kwg. 12th; "The Chief Non-Christian Systems 

 of Religion," by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; 

 Miss Buckland's paper on " Rhabdomancy and Belomancy," Jour. 

 Anth. Inst., April ; Dr. Wakes Smart on " The Ancient Worshij) of 

 Strings," Brit. Arch. Assoc. ; Dr. Collin eau on " Religious Mania," 

 Bull. Soc. d-Anth., No. 3, 1875 ; " Lucky Days," etc., Mittheil. Anth. Ges. 

 in Wien; " Ser^Dcnt and Siva Worship in America," Hyde Clarke, 

 Anth. Inst., June 27th ; " Demonolatry," etc., Gontemp. Review, Feb. ; 

 W. P. Distant on the " Term Religion in Anthroj^ology." 



V. INSTRUMENTALITIES OF RESEARCH. 



Apparatus of Observation. " Instructions Craniologiques et Cranio- 

 metriques," Soc. d^Anth., Paris ; " La CranioscoiDe," M. Lenhossek, 

 Mem. Acad. Soe., Buda-Pesth; "Zur Frage nach der Methode der 

 Schadelmessung," Go7T.-Blatt., I., 1876. 



Terminology. Ecker, in Archiv, May, on " Prehistoric Terminol- 

 ogy ;" a paper by O. T. Mason, American Association, on the " Scope 

 of Anthropology and the Classification of its Materials." Discussions 



