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Teleosts. No less than 35 plates and 90 text figures have been 

 allotted to this work, thereby adding still more to its useful- 

 ness. 



Of papers on fossil Invertebrates the most important is that 

 on "A Contribution to the Description of the Fauna of the 

 Trenton Group," by P. E. Raymond {Canada Geol. Survey 

 Museum Bulletin, "^o. 31, 1921). This Report is intended to 

 give the results of a study of a number of new or unusual fossils 

 that were found in the Trenton group during a study of the 

 Ordovician formations in Ontario and Quebec. Remains of 

 Cystoidea, Brachiopoda, Gastropoda, and Trilobita constitute 

 the types which are described. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. By A. G. Thacker, A.R.C.S., Zoological Laboratory, 

 Cambridge. 



The publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, which 

 is a section of the Smithsonian Institution, are of an extensive 

 character, and, indeed, some of the bulletins are in themselves 

 small books. These publications are generally detailed studies 

 of the manners and customs of the American Indian tribes, 

 and are therefore chiefly of interest to those who are specialising 

 in this particular branch of social anthropology. Some of the 

 bulletins possess, however, a wider interest, and this is the case 

 with Bulletin No. 66, which was recently issued. This is 

 entitled " Recent Discoveries attributed to Early Man in 

 America," and is by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. The paper is a 

 thorough and critical examination of the claims of various 

 recent supposed discoveries of Pleistocene human remains in 

 North America. Some years ago Dr. Hrdlicka investigated 

 the alleged discoveries of fossil men in South America, many 

 of which he had no difficulty in showing to be of a surprisingly 

 fantastic character, and all of which rested upon quite 

 insufficient evidence. But the cases with which Bulletin 

 No. 66 deals are of a somewhat more serious character, and were 

 supported and credited by various" United States anthropologists 

 of repute. The more important of these recent claims to the 

 discovery of fossil men in the Western Hemisphere are three 

 in number : (i) The Ancient Man of Cuzco, Peru, which was 

 found by the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 191 2 ; (2) the 

 Rancho La Brea Man, of California, which was found in 1914 

 and was alleged to be of Pleistocene antiquity ; and (3) the 

 skeletons from Vero, in Florida, which were found in an 

 undoubtedly Pleistocene stratum, and whose claims to be 

 regarded as truly original inclusions in that stratum were 

 strongly supported by Dr. E. H. Sellards. These last skeletons 

 were found only as recently as 1916, and would doubtless have 



