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the Age of Colossi, etc., with reference to America ; and in 

 "Materiaux" (1875, p. 394) is an article from Frederick VII. 

 of Denmark on the methods employed in constructing the 

 so-called " Halls of Giants," or dolmens. 



Before the British Association, August 27, Mr. C. O. Groom 

 Napier read a paper on the " Localities whence tin and gold 

 were found." P. de Cessac is the author of a work, "L'Ambre 

 en France aux temps prehistoriques." F. W. Unger (Gottin- 

 gen, Proc. Anth. Soc, Pt. I.) has a paper on the origin and 

 working of bronze in Europe. G. de Mortillet read one (Fr. 

 Assoc, 1874) on the introduction of the working of bronze in 

 the West (" Materiaux," p. 459). M. A. Bertrand (Bull. Soc. 

 cPAnth.) read one on the Oriental origin of the working of 

 copper, tin, silver, iron, lead, etc. Wibel (Germ. Anth. Soc, 



1874) read an essay on the chemical analysis of bronze. 

 Professor Drechsler made a communication on the begin- 



ning of agriculture, before the Anthropological Society of 

 Gottingen. 



"Materiaux" (February and March, 1875) has reproduced 

 some interesting old papers on " thunder-stones." 



Professor Hartt has published at Rio Janeiro " Notes on 

 the Manufactory of Pottery among Savage Races," with ref- 

 erences to authorities. Perhaps the very best production on 

 the subject. 



Colonel A. Lane Fox favors us with the Third Part of his 

 Catalogue on Early Modes of Navigation, tracing the devel- 

 opment of ship-forms. On the same subject attention is call- 

 ed to "History of Modern Shipping and Ancient Commerce," 

 by W. S. C. Lindsay. 



Professor Hartt has an article in the January Number 

 of Popular Science Monthly on the " Growth of the Idea 

 of Ornament." 



On the subject of language, we call especial attention to 

 E. de Chossat on the classification of the Babylonian and 

 Ninevite cuneiform characters ; to Hyde Clarke (Brit. Ass., 



1875) on a Community of Aboriginal Names of Weapons in 

 Prehistoric Times ; to Dr. A.W. Bikkers on the Anthropolog- 

 ical Aspect of Linguistic Metaphor; to Professor Whitney on 

 the Life and Growth of Language; and to Dr. Hermann 

 Brunnhofer (Ausland, 1875, No. 31, p. 611) on the Voices of 

 Animals in Primitive Human Speech. 



