INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1875. clxix. 



the Anthropological Institute, on January 12, 1875, by Mr. 

 G. E. Dobson. 



At the International Geographical Congress in Paris, two 

 long and able papers were read, the one by M. Venioukoff 

 upon the races of Asiatic Russia, the other by M. de Huj- 

 falvy upon the migrations of the Ouralo- Altaic races. Both 

 elicited considerable discussion, and may be regarded as 

 among the most able presented to the Congress. On motion 

 of M.Hujfalvy*the name Turanian was abandoned for Ouralo- 

 Altaic, as applied to non-Aryan races of Europe and the peo- 

 ples of Northern Asia. 



An account of the Ainos was given to the German Anthro- 

 pological Society (1874) by Herr Pomoli, who considers them 

 the probable aborigines of Japan, reaching back to the cave- 

 bear period. 



Arthur Conner described before the Royal Geographical 

 Society his journey to the interior of Formosa (Proc, Aug., 

 1875). The account of the Japanese expedition to Formosa 

 has been published at Yeddo in English. 



At the meeting of the Anthropological Society of Gottin- 

 gen (July 17, 1875), Dr. Von Ihering gave an account of teeth 

 mutilations, especially in Southeastern Asia. 



Oceanica. Lieutenant Crespigny read a paper before the 

 Anthropological Institute (Journal, July, 1875) on the Mi- 

 lanows of Borneo. The same people are described by M. 

 Miklucho-Maklav. 



Captain John C. Lawson (Anth. Inst., June 22, 1875) gives 

 an account of the Papuans. Virchow made a report on Pap- 

 uan skulls before the German Anthropological Society, 1874. 



Australian ethnology is represented by the communication 

 of Mr. John Forrest to the Anthropological Institute (June 

 22, 1875) on " the Natives of Central and Western Austra- 

 lia." Volume X. of the " Transactions and Proceedings of the 

 Royal Society of Victoria" contains a paper by H. G. Pain on 

 the Decay of Aboriginal Art in Australia and Polynesia. 



Before the British Association, Bristol, Rev. Wyatt Gill 

 c;ave an account of the Maories of New Zealand. " The 

 Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 

 1875," contains the following ethnological papers: The My- 

 thology and Traditions of the Maoris in New Zealand ; Notes 

 on an Ancient Native Burial-place near the Moa-bone Point ; 



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