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ticed among the natives of the forests in their border. They 

 are so addicted to it that the prospect of a speedy and mis- 

 erable death does not deter them. The negroes who work 

 the plantations are compelled to wear iron masks, and are 

 allowed to take them off only under the strictest surveil- 

 lance. Beasts (excepting the jaguar) and birds are affected 

 with a similar appetite. Hunters take advantage of the fact 

 by hiding on moonlight nights near one of these clay beds, 

 called barrieros, to which the deer and swine come to eat 

 earth, and the jaguar to secure his prey. 



Charles Frederick Hartt, A.M., chief of the Brazilian geo- 

 logical survey, has published at Rio Janeiro " Amazonian 

 Tortoise Myths ;" among others, the old fable of the tortoise 

 and the hare appears as the tortoise and the deer. 



In Bullet. Soc. d? Anthropologic (Paris, 1874, 2 e , p. 222) 

 Abbe Durand has a paper on the Sambagues of Brazil. In 

 the same number (p. 182) is a paper on the Apeicas. 



The Hackluyt Society has published "The Captivity of 

 Hans Stade, of Hesse, A.D. 1547-1555, among the wild tribes 

 of Eastern Brazil," translated by Albert Fortal, Esq., of Rio 

 Janeiro, and annotated by Richard F. Burton. 



Mr. Robert Ellis is the author of a work entitled " Peruvia 

 Scythica," the Quichua language of Pern, its derivation from 

 Central Asia, with the American languages in general, and 

 with the Turanian languages of the Old World, including 

 the Basque, the Lycian, and the pre-Aryan language of 

 Etruria (London, 1875, 8vo, 219 pp.). 



Two individuals, Bartola and Maximo, who have been ex- 

 hibited in Europe and America since 1850 under the name 

 of Aztecs, having been presented recently to the Society of 

 Anthropology, Paris, by M. Topinard, a most animated and 

 exhaustive discussion ensued upon the descriptions which 

 have been given of them by Owen and others, and of the 

 subject of Microcephaly in general. Bull., 1875, p. 36. 



Europe. Dr. Beddoe, in the report of the Belfast Meeting 

 of the British Association, has an abstract of his paper on 

 the modern ethnological migrations in the British Isles. 



Attention is again called to M. Lagneau's paper before the 

 French Association, mentioned under a previous heading. 



Herr Schaafhausen read before the German Anthropolog- 

 ical Society at Munich a paper on the early migrations of 



