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These processes aud the order of evolution of the processes involved 

 were shown in diagrams. The mostoxcited discussion was with reference 

 to the paheolithic problems. Other important comnuiuications were: 



Navajo songs of sequence. Dr. W. Matthews, U. S. A. 



Argillite quarries near Delaware River. H. C. Mercer. 



iDtliaii migrations. C. Stanilaud Wake. 



Sense of taste among ludiau.s. E. H. S. Baily. 



Caclies of tlie Saginaw Valley. H.I.Smith. 



Is polysynthesis characteristic of American languages? I. N. B. Hewitt. 



Psychology at the World's Fair. J. Jastrow. 



Evidence of glacial man in America. G. F. Wright. 



Antifiuity of man in America. W. .1. McGee. 



Sheet copper design.s, Hojiewell group. W. K. Mdorchead. 



Mexican calendar system. D. (i. Brinton 



Necropolis of Ancou, Pern. G. A. Dorscy. 



Indian names of Four Winds. J. O. Dorsey. 



Ceremony of the Quichua Indians. G. A. Dorsey. 



The French Association met at Besan(;on. In the section of anthro- 

 pology the following papers were of general scoi)e: 



Proportional weight of the cerebellum, the isthmus, and of the bull). L. 



Manouvrier. 

 Prehistoric Algiers. P. Pallary. 



Ancient and modern weapons of South American Indians. Felix Regnault. 

 The highest and the lowest natality in France; natality and masculinity; 



endogamy in rural districts. M. A. Dumont. 

 On the Ligurians. M. Ploix. 



In June, 1893, the Societa Romaua di Autropologia was organized in 

 Rome, with one hundred founders. The society will devote itself to 

 the science of man in all of its branches. Prof. Guiseppe Sergi, author 

 of Principles and methods of classifying the human race, and kSys- 

 tematic catalogue of the varieties of man in Russia, was made presi- 

 dent. Florence boasts still of the most efficient anthropological society 

 in Italy. 



At Moscow, during the first three weeks in August, the scientific 

 people gave themselves to entertaining congresses, to wit: The Inter- 

 national Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology, eleventh 

 session, and The International Congress of Zoology, second session. 

 Even in the last-named, papers were read that were of interest to an- 

 thropologists, such as Psychophysical study on the memory of sensa- 

 tion, by X. Savelier, and study of the re[)artition of animals in vertical 

 contours. 



Before the Congress of Anthropology many comnmnications of gen- 

 eral interest were made. 



Prehistoric researches in Spain. L. Siret. 

 The populations of the Caucasus. E. Chantre. 

 Changes in the problems l>efore the Congress. R. Virchow. 

 Sculpture in France in the stone age. Baron A. de I5aye. 

 Kourgans of the Kirghiz Steppes. Ph. Nevedov. 



Oriental origin of the Cloissonnee jewelry and its introduction into tlie West 

 by the Goths. Baron A. de Baye. 



