CONTENTS. VII 



Pajre. 



The Evolutionary Significance of Species, by (). F. Cook 397 



Some Bird Life in British Papna, by R. A. Vivian 418 



Bird Sanctuaries in New Zealand \... 419 



The House Sparrow, by Dr. J. O. Sl<:inner 423 



Some Tibetan Animals, by II. Lydekker 429 



The Multiple Origin of Horses and Ponies, by Dr. J. Cossar Ewart 437 



Egyptian and Arabian Horses, by E. Prisse d'Avennes 457 



Bees and Flowers, by Prof. E. L. Bouvier 469 



The Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon, by Prof. W. A. Herdman 485 



Flying Fish and their Habits, by Dr. Theodore Gill 495 



The Stature of Man at Different Epochs, by A. Dastre _ . 517 



Old Age, by Elie Metchnikoff 533 



The Contributions of American Archeology to History, by W. H. Holmes . 551 



Gournia. by Harriet A. Boyd 559 



Archaeological Researches on the Frontiers of Argentina and Bolivia, by 



Eric von Rosen _ 573 



A General View of the Archaeology of the Pueblo Region, by Edgar L. 



Hewett _ . 583 



The Painting of Human Bones among the American Aboi-igines, by Dr. 



Ales Hrdlicka 607 



Sling Contrivances for Projectile Weapons, by F. Krause 619 



Materials Used to Write upon before the Invention of Printing, by Prof. 



Albert Maire 639 



An Inquiry into the Population of China. ])y W. W. Rockhill . 659 



Chinese Architecture, by S. W. Bushell ." _ .. 677 



Pewter and the Revival of its Use, by Arthur Lasenby Liberty 693 



Cameos, by Cyril Davenport 713 



The Economic Conquest of Africa 1iy the Railroads, by A. Fock 731 



The Present Aspects of the Panama Canal, by William H. Burr 737 



The Sanitation of the Isthmian Canal Zone, by W. C. Gorgas 745 



The Projected New Barge Canal, by Col. Thomas W. Symons 751 



Rapid Transit Subways in Metropolitan Cities, by Milo R. Maltbie 759 



Sir George Gabriel Stokes, by Ernest W. Brown 773 



Karl Alfred von Zittel, by Charles Schuchert 779 



Karl Gegenbauer, by Oscar Hertwig .-_ 787 



