530 PKOCiUESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1890. 



Schmidt. Vestifies laisses par les populations preColoinbieiiiies de 

 Isicara;;iia, Dosire Pictor. Uber altpeiuaiiisclie naiistbiere, ])r. Neh- 

 ring. Die NutzpHanzen tier alten Peruaner, L. Wittinack. Diritto e 

 morale iiel Messico autieo, Vinceiizo Grossi. La creniazioue in Ame- 

 rica ])rima dopo Cristolbro Colombo, Grossi. Aniliropologie des i)eu- 

 l)le8 d'Analiuac an temps de Cortez, K. Ilartmann. Was America peo. 

 ple<l from Polynesia! Horatio Hale. I^^tude siir la langueMan), leComte 

 de Charencey. Textes, analyses et vocabulaire de la langue Timucua, 

 Kaoul <le la Grasserie. De la famille linffnisti(pie Pano, id. The histor- 

 ical archives of the Hemeuway Southwestern Archa-ological Expedition, 

 Adolf Baudelier. Sur le debris de cuisine (Sambaquis) du Bresil, 11. 

 Miiller. Das Verhiiltniss zwischeu dem Ketschua und Aimaraid. Sur 

 une ancienne carte de I'Amerique, M. Gaflarel. Verwaudtschafceii und 

 Wanderuugen des Tscbebtscba, Max Dhle. Trois families linguistiques 

 desbassinsde I'Amazoneetde TOrenocpie, Lucien Adam. Bibliographic 

 desrecentes conquetes de la linguistique sud-am^ricaine, Lucien Adam. 

 Das Toualamatl der Aubiu'schen Sammlung und die Verwaudten 

 Kaleuderblicher, Ed\\ard Seler. Die Entzifterung der Maya Hand- 

 schriften, E. Eorstemanu. Classification chronologique des monuments 

 architectoniques de I'ancien Perou, Ferdinand Borsari. Contribution a 

 I'americanisme du Cauca (Colombie), L^on Douay. Linguistique des 

 l)euples qui habiteut le centre de I'Amerique du Sud, von den Steinem. 

 Figures pyruvic nnes en argent, Lilders. 



The Section of Anthropology in the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science had for its presiding otticer Dr. Frank Baker, 

 the director of the National Zoological Park. His address will be no- 

 ticed in the chapter on Biology. The following are the titles of imiwr- 

 tant papers read: Indian origin of mai)le sugar, H. W. Henshaw; 

 Fort Ancient, W. K. Moorehead ; Aboriginal stone implements of the 

 Potomac Valley, W. H. Holmes ; Earthwork near Fosters, Little Miami 

 Valley, Ohio, F. W. Putnam; Brains and medisected head of man and 

 chimpanzee, Burt G. Wilder; Gold beads of Indian manufactuie from 

 Florida and New Jersey, C. C. Abott; A study in mental statistics, J. 

 Jastrow ; Arts of modern savages for interpreting archa'ology, O. T. 

 Mason; Kelation of mind to its physical basis, E. D. Cope; Ancient 

 hearth in the Little Miami Valley, F. W. Putnam ; E\ olutiou of a 

 sect, Anita N. McGee. 



The sixtieth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science was held in Leeds, September 3-13. The vice presidential 

 address of Mr. John Evans was devoted uuiinly to this question : What 

 is the anti(iiiity of the human race, or, rather, what is the antiquity of 

 the earliest objects hitherto found which can with safety be assigned 

 to the handiwork of man ? As regards Tertiary man there are three 

 classes of eviden<',e, to wit: (1) the presun)ed discovery of parts of the 

 human skeleton ; (li) that of animal bouj's said to have been cut and 

 worked by the hand of man ; and (3) that of flints thought to be arti- 



