clxii GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



Austria, especially on the Donau and the March. Mittheil. 

 der Anth. Ges. in Wim, 1875, Nos. 2, 3, 6, 7. 



Ilerr Eckers made a report on researches into the remains 

 of the Celts in South Germany. "Philology and archaeol- 

 ogy testify to the presence of the Celts, but Celtic skulls are 

 unknown among us. Cemeteries containing dolichocephalic 

 Germans exist every where, while in the tumuli graves, es- 

 pecially in Schwarzwald, the brachy cephalic skull prevails. 

 Have the Germans in their immigration into their present 

 abodes found a people whom they partly destroyed, but 

 from whom the tumuli graves proceed?" The discussion 

 of the Celt question was taken up by Virchow, Kollman, 

 Schaafhausen, Desor, Lindenschmidt, Mehlis, Marggraf, and 

 others. Virchow also made a communication on the dikes 

 of defense in Posen. 



Major Wurdinger gave a brief account of the prehistoric 

 finds in Bavaria. " The Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages are 

 not sharply divided here. Near Rosering a stone celt was 

 found with an iron sword. In a mound on the Salzach a 

 stone hammer was found with bronze rings of the later Ro- 

 man period. In the palafittes of Starnburger Lake, rude and 

 polished stone implements predominate over bone and horn." 



The following interesting papers have been read before 

 the Anthropological Society of Vienna : 



"Prehistoric Discoveries in Lower Austria in 1874," by 

 Heinrich Graf Wurmbrand. 



" Results of Palafitte Researches," by the same. 



" On Microcephaly," by Dr. A. Zuckerkandl. 



"Prehistoric Objects from Schiittenhofen (Bohemia)," by 

 J. Wold rich. 



"A Macrocephal Turkish Skull," by A. Weisbach. 



" The Bone-cave of Thayngen, near SchafFhausen," by L. 

 Rutimeyer (see Annual Record, 1874, p. cxxi.). Professor 

 Merk has published an account of this, a translation of 

 which by J. E. Lee is issued by Longmans & Co. The next 

 annual meeting will be held at Jena. 



A shell heap has been discovered near Athens, composed 

 almost entirely of a species of murex, and of others furnish- 

 ing coloring matter. It is therefore concluded that this is 

 the site of an ancient manufactory of the celebrated Tyrian 

 purple. 



