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races in Brazil and Central America and those of North 

 America. The volume concludes by a chapter upon the 

 unity of the human race, and one upon chronometric measure- 

 ments as applied to the antiquity of man. 



The whole work is an excellent compendium of the state 

 of our knowledge of this subject up to a recent period ; and 

 however readers may differ from the conclusions of the au- 

 thor, the work is eminently worthy of the study of all inter- 

 ested in the department of ethnology. 



THE CESNOLA COLLECTION. 



The acquisition, on the part of the Metropolitan Museum 

 of Art in New York, of the valuable collection of curiosities 

 gathered in Cyprus by General Di Cesnola, is a fact of much 

 note, especially as great efforts were made to retain it in Eu- 

 rope. It was purchased from the owner by Mr. John Taylor 

 Johnson, of New York, for the sum of $50,000 in gold, and 

 is to be exhibited in the DouGflas mansion on Fourteenth 



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Street. The collection embraces over ten thousand speci- 

 mens, in great variety, including representatives of different 

 historical epochs, and embracing objects of art from the 

 rudest to the most finished character. Among them are 

 large numbers of statues of various sizes, articles of pottery, 

 ornaments, weapons of war and of the chase, bottles, coins, 

 etc. Neio York Iferald, January 29, 1873. 



THE CANSTADT RACE OF MANKIND. 



A very important ethnological work has lately been com- 

 menced by Quatrefages and Hamy, entitled Crania Ethnica 

 Les Cranes des Haces Humaines in which it is proposed 

 to present a systematic account of the principal types of the 

 human skull, both ancient and modern. The materials are to 

 be found in the various collections of Paris and those of for- 

 eign countries, which have been placed at the command of 

 the authors. 



The first UvraisoJi is especially occupied by an inquiry into 

 the so-called fossil races of man, Avhich, however peculiar in 

 their general character, the authors maintain to be still per- 

 sistent in various parts of the world. This race they call the 

 Canstadt race, from the fact that its first discovery was, in 

 IVOO, at Canstadt, Stuttgart, as the result of certain investi- 



