ANTHROPOLOGY. 



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Bookl. — Prehistoric times: Comprising anthropological researches, 

 cosmogonic traditions, the autochthonic race, the origins of civilization 

 in the south and in the north, i. e., ^^ mayaJdche^^ and ^^naoha,'^ primi- 

 tive monuments, languages, religions, customs, &c. 



Book 2. — The ^^ Meea,^^ comprising the various emigrations of this 

 period, the change of civilization, &c. 



Book 3. — The " Tolteea,''' comprising the history of all the contempo- 

 raneous nations, the new civilization, new customs, new monnments, &c. 



Book 4. — The "iWej?tcrt," comi^risiug the Aztec migration, the history 

 of the Anahuac people, and of the nations related to them, with a special 

 treatise on their sociology. 



Book 5. — Greatness and downfall of Mexico, comprising the Con- 

 quest. 



Two works on Japanese prehistoric archaeology appeared in 1884, 

 composed, printed, and illustrated by natives. The impetus to this 

 work was first given by Professor Morse in his explorations among the 

 Omori shell-heaps. The two volumes just mentioned arrest the atten- 

 tion both by the similarity of humbler forms and ornamentation with 

 the same classes in America, and by the existence of higher forms 

 quite different from American. If this has any bearing ui)on the ques- 

 tion of ethnic contact, it speaks against rather than lor the theory. 

 (See " Jijima" and "Kanda" in the bibliography.) 



BIOLOGY. 



The final agreement of the German anthropologists upon a method 

 of cranial measurement has been reviewed during the year by Dr. J. G. 

 Garson. After a careful study of the code, the conclusion is reached 

 that the importance of the following measurements (numbered the same 

 as in the text of the agreement) has been recognized, and the method of 

 making them is now agreed upon generally: 



2. Maximum length. 



4. Maximum breadth. 



5. Maximum frontal breadth. 

 7. Height (basio-bregmatic). 



10. Basio-nasal length. 



12. Length of foramen magnum. 



13. Breadth of foramen magnum. 

 15. Fronto-occipital arc. 



17a. Bi-jugal breadth. 



IH. Bi-zygomatic breadth. 



18a. Interorbital breadth. 



21. Height of nose." 



22. Breadth of nose. 

 2:?. Orbital breadth. 

 25. Orbital height. 



30. Basic-alveolar length. 



The following measures are deemed unsatisfactory: 



1. Horizontal length. 



6. Total height. 



8. Ear-height. 



9. Auxiliary ear-height. 

 11. Basilar length. 



13a. Bi-mastoid width. 



13b. Breadth of skull-base. 



IG. Transv^i-se vertical arc. 



I7h. Infra-jugal face-width. 



24. Maximum horizontal orbital breadth. 



26. Vertical height of orbits. 



27. Palatal length. 



28. Palatal breadth. 



29. Posterior palatine breadth. 

 31. Profile angle. 



