274 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



large sting-ray fish was seen in its company. The Guayaquil 

 is a vessel belonging to the Pacific Steam Navigation Com- 

 pany, plying between Guayaquil and Panama. Panama Star 

 and Herald, February 16, 1873. 



EFFECT OP VIOLET LIGHT ON SILK-WOKMS. 



It was noticed by Professor Guarinoni that while 50 per 

 cent, of the silk-worms exposed to white light died of dis- 

 ease, scarcely 10 per cent, of those exposed to violet light 

 died, although all other conditions were the same. He in- 

 tends prosecuting experiments in the coming year to deter- 

 mine whether this is simply accidental. 28 C, October, 1872, 

 207. 



SCOPE OP THE BEITISH ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 



As an illustration of what is meant by anthropology, in its 

 widest sense, we give the classification of the subject as 

 adopted by the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain 

 and Ireland. Subjects coming under the following heads are 

 considered as proper for the inquiry of the society : 1. The 

 physical history of man and the human race. 2. Psychology. 

 3. Comparative philology. 4. Priscan archaeology : a. Pre- 

 historic ; b. Protohistoric. 5. Descriptive ethnography, com- 

 prising the reports of travelers and explorers on the physical 

 characters, derivation and relation, manners, customs, relig- 

 ion, language, etc., of various races and nations. 6. Compar- 

 ative ethnography. 7. The relations between civilized man 

 and aboriginal savage peoples. In this programme it will be 

 seen that any subject properly coming under the cognizance 

 of the anthropologist may find a place. 12 A, February 20, 

 1873,310. 



ASSYRIAN TRADITION OP THE DELUGE. 



Much interest has been excited in England by a record of 

 the deluge, which Mr. G. Smith, of the British Museum, has 

 lately deciphered from the Assyrian mounds. The cuneiform 

 characters recently found, and translated by him, give a long 

 and full account of the deluge. The record contains a ver- 

 sion or tradition of this event which existed in the early 

 Chaldean period of the city of Erech (one of the cities of 

 Nimrod), now represented by the ruins of Warka. In this 



