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crania in France, as well as a bibliography of anthropological papers 

 appearing in current journals. This work can not be too highly com- 

 mended. It would occupy only a little more space to give the number 

 of pages in each, and this would secure the thanks of many collabora- 

 tors. Each year brings us thus nearer to a cooperative bibliography of 

 anthropology throughout the world. 



Anthropological literature. — Catalogue in Archiv flir Anthropologic, 

 XVI, Supplement, pp. 1-135. 



I. Pre-history and ArchiBology, J. H. Miiller, 1-30 pp 

 II. Anatomy, Ad. Pansch., 31-36 pp. 



III. Volkerkuiide, Dr. R. Scheppig. 



(1) Sources, such as general literature, bibliographies, annals, Journals, con- 

 gresses, museums, and expositions. 



(2) Ethnology: methodic, general sociology, special sociology in characterist- 

 ics, family, domestication, mutilations, medicine, justice and the state, 

 religion, language, technology. 



(3) Ethnography, studied geographically. 



IV. Zoology, as related to anthroijology in recent and fossil mammals. 

 Congresses in 188G : 



Association Fran^aise pour I'Avancement des Sciences, at Nancy, August 12-20. 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, Birmingham, Septeniber 1-8. 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Buffalo. Aug. 27-Sept. 7. 

 German Congress of Anthropologists, in Stettin, August 10-17. 

 Norwegian Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Seventh Congress of Orientalists, Vienna, September. 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



One of the most thorough archreological investigations ever under- 

 taken is that of Professor Putnam, of Cambridge, and Dr. C. L. Metz, 

 ill the mounds of the Little Miami Valley, especially in the Marriott and 

 the Turner Group. The minute account of these diggings will occupy 

 a separate memoir, but in the eighteenth and nineteenth annual report 

 of Peabody Academy enough is told to give a clear outline of the work. 

 The scientific value of this exploration is due to the method, to the ap- 

 l)lication of detailed biological processes throughout. Not only is every 

 ounce of earth passed backward through a screen or sieve, but the ex- 

 plorers have made some of their best finds beneath the original surface. 

 Dr. Whitney has made a study of the human bones and reports the 

 lesions to belong to three classes: (1) Anomolies or variations from 

 type; (2) those that have lollowed from injuries; (3) those resulting 

 from disease. 



The archneolgical explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology were still 

 under the direction of Mr. Cyrus Thomas, and not only embraced the 

 United States, but extended southward through Mexico and Central 

 America. 



