816 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1885. 



professor of ethnology and archaeology. The subjects covered were 

 Palaeolithic Man; the Races of Men; the White Race: Civilization, its 

 Origin and Elements, its Centers, its Stages, and its Goal ; Art in 

 stone, wood, bone, shell, metal, and clay; Textile art and decoration, 

 and Mnemonic design. 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science met at 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. The section of anthropology, under the vice-presi- 

 dency of Mr. William H. Dall, confined its discussions chiefly to those 

 lines easily suggested by the environment, viz., the mound-builders, and 

 the Dakota stock of Indians. The vice-presidential address was a 

 studied discussion of the tribes of Alaska. 



Volume VI of the Index Catalogue of the Surgeon -General's Library 

 appeared in 1885, with titles from Heastie to Inseldt. Works of value 

 to anthropologists will be found catalogued under Heredity, Hermaph- 

 rodites, Hippocrates, Histology, Homicide, Humerus, Hypnotism, Idiots, 

 Imagination, India, Indians, Infant, Infanticide, Insane and Insanity 

 (157 closely printed pages), and Insects. 



Filling's Bibliography contains the titles in full, and in important cases, 

 an abstract of everything that has been published upon the languages 

 of North American aborigines. Six years of uninterrupted labor have 

 been bestowed upon this colossal work. The index to the volume fur- 

 nishes an excellent synonymy of tribal names. 



The work of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, included that done in the field by archaeologists, ethnologists, and 

 linguists, and the publication of the third annual report The special 

 papers will be referred to under the names of their contributors. The 

 introduction, by Maj. J. W. Powell, the Director of the Bureau, is far 

 more than a resume of the labors of others. The paper on Omaha Soci- 

 ology, by Mr. Dorsey, evoked the expression of the Director's opin- 

 ions upon sociology among savages, a subject to which he has devoted 

 much thought; and Mr. Dall's paper on Labretifery and Masks draws 

 out a chapter on activital similarities, in which certain rules are laid 

 down with reference to the origin of like inventions in different parts 

 of the world. 



The Smithsonian Annual Report for 1885 will contain two volumes, 

 one relating to the work of the Institution, the second to the work of 

 the IS^ational Museum, where the subject of Anthropology is organized 

 as follows: 



1. Arts and Industries. Mr. G. Brown Goode, assisted by Mr. R. T. 

 Earle, on Fisheries; Captain Collins, on Il^avigation ; Mr. William H. 

 Holmes and A. Howard Clarke, on Keiamics; Rorayn Hitchcock, on 

 Textiles and Foods. 



2. Ethnology and Aboriginal Technology. Prof. Otis P. Mason. 



3. Archa3ology. Dr. Charles Rau. 



Anthropo-biology, Anatomy, and Anthropometry, are under the 

 charge of the Army Medical Museum. 



