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tant relics of a man-like creature ever discovered. The 

 anatomical details were discussed in the last number, but 

 attention may again be drawn to the character of the mandi- 

 bular symphysis, which is short and resembles that of modern 

 man, and has not the transverse flange which is so character- 

 istic of the living apes and of the Pleistocene Piltdown skull. 



The American Anthropologist for April — June has now been 

 received, and is perhaps somewhat less interesting than usual. 

 This number of the magazine deals almost exclusively with 

 questions of social anthropology. A. A. Goldenweiser, of 

 Columbia University, contributes a suggestive paper on " The 

 Knowledge of Primitive Man." The author thinks that in 

 the study of the mentality of savages, too much attention has 

 been given to those departments of barbarian thought which 

 differ most from our own, whereas insufficient attention has 

 been paid to the positive knowledge of the savage, " his con- 

 crete experience, his familiarity with beings, things, relations, 

 processes, actions." Thus a one-sided picture of the savage 

 mind is often presented, and superstition probably dominates 

 the lower races less than is commonly supposed. Among the 

 other essays in this journal, special mention may be made 

 of " Exogamy and the Classificatory Systems of Relationship," 

 by R. H. Lowie, and of an article b} r F. G. Speck on "The 

 Family Hunting Band as the basis of Algonkian Social Organisa- 

 tion." 



Several important papers will be found in Man for the third 

 quarter of 191 5. In the July number, W. P. Pycraft, of the 

 British Museum, writes on " A Plea for a Substitute for the 

 Frankfort Base-line : With an Account of a new method 

 of Drawing Skull Contours." This article is, of course, highly 

 technical, but no craniologist should miss seeing it. Pycraft 

 proposes to substitute for the well-known " Frankfort base- 

 line" used in the comparison of human skulls another line 

 " passing from the nasion backwards through the centre of 

 the auditory meatus." The same number contains an article 

 by E. J. Way land on the " Occurrence of Stone Implements 

 in the Province of Mozambique," the implements in question 

 being of extremely rough, almost eolithic, workmanship. 

 The September number contains a highly interesting con- 

 tribution from Dr. Hugh Stannus on " Pre-Bantu Occupants 

 of East Africa," in which the legends of gnomes prevalent in 



