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sketch of European ethnology is so superficial that it may- 

 even be misleading to his American readers, who are for the 

 most part profoundly ignorant of Europe. Mention may also 

 be made of an article by W. D. Wallis under the heading, 

 " Indo-Germanic Relationship Terms as Historical Evidence." 



As is well known, in the north of the Japanese Islands, in 

 Saghalien, and in the Kurile Islands, there dwells a very 

 hirsute race of Caucasic character known as the Ainu. The 

 reader's attention must be drawn to an exhaustive monograph 

 on the Ainu of the Kurile Islands. This large monograph is 

 by Dr. R. Tosii, and it constitutes an issue of the Journal of 

 the College of Science (University of Tokyo), (vol. xlii. Art. 1, 

 January 191 9). The article is in the French language, and is 

 entitled : " Etudes Archeologiques et Ethnologiques. Les 

 Ainou des Isles Kouriles." The monograph is well illustrated, 

 and, judging from the plates, some of the Ainu are so entirely 

 Caucasic in appearance that they might almost pass as Euro- 

 peans. How a Caucasic people comes to occupy such an 

 anomalous geographical position is one of the standing problems 

 of anthropology. 



The following papers on Social Anthropology may be re- 

 corded : 



In Folk-lore, vol. xxx, No. 2 : " Customs Connected with Death and Burial 

 among the Rumanians," by Mrs. A. Murgoci ; "The Problem of the Gipsies," by 

 Dr. F. W. Russell ; and " The Folk-lore of the Bushmen " (this latter is a reprint 

 of an important article which appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine in 1874). 



In Man : "The Devil's Officers and the Witches' Covens," by Miss M. A. 

 Murray (September); and "Correspondence on 'Anthropology and our Older 

 Histories'," by Fleure, De Guerin, and others (September). 



In the American Anthropologist, vol. xx : " On Computations for the Maya 

 Calendar," by R. K. Morley ; " Early Cheyenne Villages," by G. B. Ginnell ; 

 " War-God Shrines of Laguna and Zuni," by Elsie Clews Parsons ; and " Kinship 

 Terms of the Kootenay Indians," by E. Sapir. 



And the following articles may be selected from the new volume of the 

 Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, vol. iii. Pt. 1, 1918-19, 

 received as we go to press : " Foreign Relations in the Neolithic Period," by 

 Reginald A. Smith; "Excavations at Grime's Graves during 1917," by A. E. 

 Peake ; and " The Origin of the Rostro-Carinate Implements, and other Chipped 

 Flints from the Basement Beds of East Anglia," by F. N. Haward. 



