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blond long-headed race and the short brunet long-headed 

 (or Iberian) type. Another aspect of these questions is dealt 

 with by H. Peake and E. A. Hooton in a paper entitled " Saxon 

 Graveyard at East Shefford, Berks," in the same number of 

 the Journal. The remains of twenty-seven individuals were 

 found. From the differences between the male and female 

 skeletons, the authors conclude that Saxon men had married 

 Romano-British women, and they speculate that this was the 

 general rule throughout the country, but such a wide general- 

 isation founded upon so narrow a basis is not to be accepted. 

 The Journal also contains an article on " Stone Implements 

 from South African Gravels " by Major E. R. Collins and 

 Mr. Reginald Smith. 



In the American Anthropologist for the third quarter of 

 last year (vol. xvii. No. 3) there are some interesting papers. 

 The longest contribution is an article entitled " Notes on the 

 Archeology of Salvador" by H. J. Spinden, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. This is an admirable and exten- 

 sive study and should be widely read. Mr. R. B. Bean has 

 a short paper on " The Growth of the Head and Face in 

 American (White), German-American, and Filipino children." 

 Some perfunctory observations are collected together here, 

 but the article is almost worthless, for in view of the mixture 

 of races the terms German-American and White-American 

 are almost meaningless anthropologically. A paper entitled 

 " A Study of Nebraska Crania " is contributed by C. W. M. 

 Poynter of Nebraska University. The skulls in question 

 came from the Nebraska Loess, and whatever may be their 

 antiquity, they closely resemble those of the existing American 

 Indians. The book-reviews are usually excellent in this 

 periodical, and attention must be drawn to W. B. Babcock's 

 long and informing review of William Hovgaard's engrossingly 

 interesting work, The Voyages of the Norsemen to America. 



In the last number of Science Progress I referred to a 

 singularly ill-informed article by M. du Caillaud in Man, 

 dealing with what he alleged to be the racial identity of the 

 British and French nationalities. In the December number 

 of Man, Mr. H. R. Hall replies to the Frenchman's untenable 

 thesis in a manner which is at once crushing and amus- 

 ing. The November Man contains some excellent articles, 

 notably one on " Queensland Stone Implements " by Dr 



