530 PROGRESS OF ANTHEOPOLOGY IN 1890. 



Sclunidt. Vestiges laisses par les populations pr6-Coloinbiennes de 

 I^icara^ua, Desire Pector, Uber altpeiiiauischeHausthiere, Dr. Neh- 

 ring'. Die Nutzpflauzeu der alten Peruaner, L. Wittmack. Diritto e 

 morale uel Messico aiitico, Vincenzo Grossi. La creuiazione in Ame- 

 rica prima e dopo CristoCoro Colombo, Grossi. Aiitbropologie des peu- 

 ples d'Auabuac au temps de Coitez, E. Hartmann. Was America peo. 

 pled from Polynesia ? Horatio Hale. Etude sur la langueMam, le Comte 

 de Chareucey. Textes, analyses et vocabulaire de la laugue Timucua, 

 Kaoul de la Grasserie. De la lamille linguistique Pano, id. The histor- 

 ical archives of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 

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

 Miiller. Das Verhiiltniss zwischen dem Ketschua und Aimaraid. Sur 

 une ancienue carte de I'Amerique, M.Gaflfarel. Verwandtschafceii und 

 Wanderuugen des Tschebtscha, Max Uble. Trois families linguistiques 

 des bassins de I'Araazone et de I'Orenoque, Lucien Adam. Bibliographie 

 des recentes conquetes de la linguistique sud-americaine, Lucien Adam. 

 Das Tonalamatl der Aubin'schen Sammlung und die Verwandten 

 Kalenderbiicher, Edward Seler. Die Entzifleruug der Maya Hand- 

 schriften, E. Forstemann. Classification chronologique des monuments 

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

 I'americanisme du Cauca (Colombie), Leon Douay. Linguistique des 

 ])euples qui Labitent le centre de l'Am6rique du Sud, von den Steinem. 

 Figures peruviennes en argent, Liiders. 



The Section of Anthropology in the American Association for the 

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

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

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

 tant papers read: Indian origin of maple 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 

 chimi)anzee, Burt G. Wilder; Gold beads of Indian manufacture from 

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

 Jastrow ; Arts of modern savages for interpreting arcbjeology, O. T. 

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

 hearth in the Little Miami Valley, F. W. Putnam ; Evolution 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 mainly to this question : What 

 is the antiquity 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 evidence, to wit: (1) tbe presumed discovery of parts of the 

 human skeleton ; (13) that of animal bones said to have been cut and 

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



