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Cotoiioii, Porto Novo, Allada, Savi, and Abomey peoples, were exhibited 

 iu native dress and habitations, working at their national trades. The 

 chief source of information is V Anthropologies Paris, in w^hich excellent 

 reviews of tlie literature of the subject will be found. 



Every German city has an ethnographic nniseum. In Berlin, Dr. 

 Bastian, with a competent force, has charge of the great Museum ftir 

 yiilkerkunde and in Dresden Dr. A. B. Meyer has his home. The 

 ZeitschHftfiiriJthnologie, Berlin, is a kind of diary or merchant's blotter, 

 giving information concerning ethnological material as it conies to hand, 

 to be journalized and posted up later on. The publications of the Dres- 

 den Museum on the Melanesian islanders are works of great merit. 



In Holland the Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnologie is published at 

 great expense by J. D. E. Schmelz, with colored lithographic plates. 

 The work of Italian ethnologists must not be overlooked, especially in 

 Central Africa. The Arehivio per V Antropologia <U Firenze, organ of the 

 Societa di Antroj)ologia, is the medium of imblication. 



Interest in the study of Etruscan origins still continues. Apropos of 

 Dr. Brinton's suggestion that this people are to be classed with the 

 Libyans, Prof. Giuseppe Sergi, of Rome, announces in Nuova Anto- 

 logia, September, 1893, that from the side of physical anthropology this 

 is true. In this connection should be read Dr. Kleinschmidt's refer- 

 ence of the Etruscans to the Aryan stock, nearest to Lithuanian and 

 Lettish and GaetanoPolari's comparison of the same language with the 

 Basque. 



Dr. Zograf has studied the ])eople of Great and Little Russia. They 

 are not homogeneous, but result from the mixing of Slavo- Lithuanians 

 and LTralo-Altaic elements. The people of Little Russia differ slightly 

 from province to province in costume and manners. The region of the 

 steppes which extend between the Carpathian and the Don has been 

 l)eopled by colonies from diverse sources, by Great and Little Russians, 

 Bulgarians, Servians, Moldavians, and Geimans. The Nogais Tartars 

 are cantoned in the Crimea. {IjAntJiropoIogie, Paris, IV, 228.) 



Dr. Braislin has studied the human nasal canal as an ethnological 

 characteristui with reference to the viability of the white and negro 

 race in the same area. He thinks that the wider, shorter, and shallower 

 canals in the negroes account for their being more subject to pulmonary 

 diseases and that they present characteristics specially adapted forpre- 

 jiaring the inspired air of a tropical climate for reception into the lung 

 structures. {Hcience, New York, March 31.) 



Dr. Felix von Luschan, of Berlin, finds in the modern Jews, descend- 

 ants of three different races, the Hittites, the Aryan Amorites, and 

 the Semitic nomads, who immigrated into Syria about the time of 

 Abraham. {Seience, New York, January 12.) 



The Veddahs of Ceylon were the subject of an exhaustive study by 

 the brothers Sarasin. The census of the island gives 2,760,000 persons, 



Singhalese (+Ko(lyias, 2,000) 1. 847,000 



Tamils (430,000 sedentary) 687,000 



