INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1875. civ 



Lopez Borregnero has published in Madrid this year his 

 work entitled " Los Indios Caribes, Memorias Interessantes 

 de Venezuela.' 



Mr. Hutchinson continues his interesting researches anions: 



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Peruvian antiquities. He objects to having them all ascribed 

 to the Incas. He agrees with Mr. Baldwin that the original 



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South Americans were the oldest people on the continent, 

 and that "the mythical cradle of the Incas will be sought in 

 the National Library at Madrid, instead of in the Lake of 

 Titicaca, to which latter place it is assigned by the Hackluyt 

 Society." 



In the Revue cV Anthropologie, No. 1, 1875, M. Ber makes a 

 communication on the prehistoric populations of Ancon, Peru, 

 with an appendix by M. Topinard. Professor Bastian is now 

 traveling in Peru and Ecuador, examining their antiqui- 

 ties. 



Dr. Reiss, of Riobamba, Ecuador, sent to the German An- 

 thropological Society, in 1874, some interesting remains of 

 the times of the Incas. Professor Seebach at the same meet- 

 ing gave an ethnographical scheme of the Central American 

 tribes. 



Professor Hartt, in his treatise on pottery, promises an ex- 

 tended work on Brazilian antiquities. 



Francesco P. Moreno has published in Buenos Ayres, " No- 

 ticias sobre antiquidades de los Indios del tempo anterior a 

 la Conquista de Buenos Ayres." 



The most interesting prehistoric find from South America 

 is the skeleton of a foetus from Peru, presented to the mu- 

 seum of the Laboratory of Anthropology of Paris by Dr. 

 Bourne. Dr. Paul Broca has made a thorough examination 



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of this specimen with reference to the pretended " os de Tin- 

 ea," or the uniform occurrence of a supernumerary bone in 

 this race, similar to the intraparietal of some mammals. He 

 concludes, "It is certain that the great majority of Peru- 

 vian skulls do not possess this intraparietal bone, but the 

 phenomenon occurs often enough to render it probable that 

 it occurs more frequently among the Peruvians than in any 

 other race." 



The whole subject of North American Archaeology is re- 

 viewed in the fourth volume of Bancroft's " Native Races," 

 embracing among other matters the latest researches of 



