clxiv GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



3, Part I., A, Division I.) is devoted entirely to Types of 

 the Lowest Races, Negrito Races, and Malayo-Polyuesian 

 Races. 



II. ETHNOLOGY OF EXTANT RACES. 



America. M. Alphonse L. Pinart has published in Paris 

 this year "Ethnologie de la Cote Nord Ouest de l'Ame- 

 rique," and other pamphlets on the same subject. M. l'Abbe 

 Petitot has a long and carefully prepared article (Bull. Soc. 

 de Geog., July, Aug., Sept.) on the geography of the Atha- 

 basca-Mackenzie, in which he gives an exhaustive account of 

 the people, dividing them into Esquimaux, Algonquins, and 

 Dene-Dindjies; the last named commonly called Athabas- 

 cans, Chippewyans, or Tinnehs are a large family of Indians 

 inhabiting Western Alaska, Hudson Bay Territory, British 

 Columbia, etc., back from the sea. The author also at the 

 Congres des Americanistes gave a most interesting account 

 of his residence among the people as a missionary. He will 

 publish, through E. Leroux, Paris, a "Dictionnaire de la 

 Langue Dene-Dindjie (Montagnais, Peaux de Lievres, Lou- 

 cheux)." 



Mr. James G. Swan, under the auspices of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and the Indian Bureau, will make an interesting 

 collection from the northwest coast to be exhibited at the 

 Centennial. The Rev. M. Eells has sent to the Smithsonian 

 Institution a manuscript of 164 pages, minutely describing 

 the Twamish Indians of Hood's Canal. 



In the Proceedings of the California Academy for 1874, 

 Mr. Stephen Powers has two papers, one on the California 

 aborigines (392), another on aboriginal botany (373). In 

 the same volume is an illustrated article on the " mesh knot " 

 of the Port Simpson Indians, by George X)avidson. 



The Smithsonian Report for 1874 contains an interesting 

 account of the burial of a squaw in San Bernardino, Cat, by 

 W. M. King. 



General II. B. Carrington gave an account before the Brit- 

 ish Association of the Indians of Dakota. 



All lovers of American ethnology will hear with pleasure 

 of Mr. Shea's continuation of American Linguistics. The 

 new series will commence with " A Grammar and Dictionary 

 of the Language of the Hidatsa (Gros Ventres)," by Wash- 

 ington Matthews, M.D., U.S.A. 



