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rnerable. They comprehend the deduction of almost all sci- 

 ences. We can only indicate a few of them, and refer the 

 reader to those publications where he will find them more 

 fully treated. 



Origin of Man. The greatest interest is springing up with 

 reference to Microcephaly in its relation to the origin of our 

 race. Dr. Samuel Pozzi {Rev. a" 1 Anth., II., 1875), following up 

 the investigations of Marshall (Phil. Trans.,Vo\. 154, XV., p. 

 501), of Bradley (Jour, of Anat. and Phys., 2d Ser., Vol. VI., 

 p. 65), of Broadbent (id., III., p. 218), of Jensen (Archiv filr 

 Anth., IV.), of Vogt (Mem. de Flnst., Geneva, XL), of Schule 

 (Archiv, 1872, p. 432), and of Aeby (Archiv, 1874), gives a 

 summary of investigations, and his own conclusions on the 

 subject. We have further discussions before the French As- 

 sociation this year, elicited by a microcephal boy presented 

 to the meeting by Dr. Laennec on behalf of Dr. Petit, of the 

 Asylum at Nantes. Dr. Paul Topinard (Bull. Soc. d^Anth., 

 1875, p. 36) makes a communication on the two microcephals 

 Maximo and Bartola. In the same publication (II., p. 164) we 

 have a paper on " L'Etude du cerveau des microcephales." 

 On the same subject we would mention Haeckel's "Anthropo- 

 genic," reviewed in Ausland (March 15, 1875). 



In Nature (December 17, 1875) is a very interesting article 

 by E. B. Tylor on the relation of race to species, in which 

 are applied the dotted diagrams of Mr. Francis Galton. 



Chronology. On the chronology of anthropology we 

 would draw attention to Herr Graf Wurmbrandt's speech on 

 the chronology of prehistoric discoveries before the German 

 Anthropological Society in 1874, followed by a lively discus- 

 sion ; to Professor Lauth's essays in Correspondenz-Blatt der 

 deutschen Gesellschaft filr Anthropologic, etc. (August, Sep- 

 tember, November, December, 1 874), " On the Definition of the 

 Boundaries of the Prehistoric ;" to the treatise of P. Cazalis 

 de Fondouce ("Materiaux," 11 and 12, 1874) on the hiatus be- 

 tween Paleolithic and Neolithic Times ; of Jacob Messikom- 

 mer (Ausland, April 12, 1875) on the Antiquity of Man; to 

 the discussion (Bull. Soc. cVAnth., 1875, II., p. 170) upon the 

 concurrence of bronze and stone implements in the cemetery 

 of Carandra ; to the paper of Fraas (Ger. Anth. Soc, 1874) on 

 the Tertiary Man (see also Correspondenz-Blatt, 1875, p. 16); 

 to that of G. de Mortillet (Rev. cVAnth., 1875, 1.) on prehis- 



