ANTHROPOLOGY. 7G1 



poisoned weapons, and tattooing. Horatio Hale is the author of two 

 important works published during the year — Indian Migrations as Evi- 

 denced by Language, and the Iroquois Book of Rites. A. S. Gatschet 

 published the following linguistic papers: The second part of his classi- 

 tication of the Yuma stock, a specimen of the Chumeto language, the 

 Shetimasha Indians of Saint Mary's Parish, Louisiana, and the linguistic 

 notes of the American Antiquarian. 



The sketch of Robert Cust on the modern languages of Africa fills a 

 very wide and disagreeable gap in our ethnographic knowledge. The 

 author forestalls his critics by justly acknowledging that first efforts 

 always come very short of perfection. 



VII. — TECHNOLOGY. 



Every phase of civilization has its technique ; every motive at the 

 foundation of human activities has its arts. There are arts of food, 

 clothing, shelter; of beauty, science, and worship; there are arts of 

 these arts; finally there are arts of destruction or consumption. In the 

 new National Museum at Washington the anthropological objects are 

 being arranged to illustrate these facts. Waterhouse Hawkins is the 

 author of a treatise on comparative anatomy as applied to the purposes 

 of the artist. Dr. Fletcher delivered a Saturday lecture in Washington 

 on human proportion in art and anthropometry. Dr. Clevenger read a 

 paper on anatomy and the sciences useful to the artist. William H. 

 Holmes read a paper before the Washington Anthropological Society 

 upon art in shell. 



Several attempts have been made in our country and abroad to deduce 

 the systems of metrology among various ancient and barbarous peoples 

 by comparing the parts of their monuments and one structure with 

 another. Such investigations are involved in so inany'disturbing ele- 

 ments that the results have been considered unsatisfactory. W. M. F. 

 Petrie describes in the Anthropological Institute Journal the mechan- 

 ical methods of the ancient Egyptians. 



The second volume of J. Konig's great work on the chemical constit- 

 uents^" human foods and drinks has been published in Berlin. In 

 the United States Consular Reports will be found a complete list of all 

 the beverages used in Mexico. Many of these, of course, are importa- 

 tions or Spanish inventions ; but quite a number are older than the con- 

 quest. Fruit of the agave, pulque, corn, and certain berries furnish the 

 material for the staple native drinks. C. Beni, of Florence, gives the 

 analysis of pulque. 



One of the South Kensington Art Hand Books is by Hans Hilde- 

 brand upon the industrial arts in Scandinavia in Pagan times. F. A. 

 Seely, examiner in the United States Patent Office, has commenced a 

 series of investigations into aboriginal art by the processes employed 

 in the Patent Office for tracing back inventions. 



