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department devoted to this subject in the Museimi of Arcba'ology of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



Attention is called to the ibllowiuj;' titles : Aryan Cosmogony, Veck- 

 enstedt; Buddhism, Griffin, Williams; Comparative Religion, Frazer; 

 Diabology, Jewett; Evolution of a Sect, Mcdee ; Folklore, Newell; 

 Humanities, Powell; Mythology of the Menomoni, Hoffman; Natural 

 Ileligion, Miiller; Polytheism in China, Lyall ; Prayer Among the Hin- 

 dus, Roussel; Primitive Religion, Schurtz ; Religion of the Semites, 

 Lloyd ; Taoist Religion, Benton. 



X. — MAN AND NATURE. 



Prof. N. S. Shaler published a series of papers on America in its re- 

 lation to civilization, iucludiug aboriginal life as well as that of the 

 white race. One of the most interesting chapters in this study is that 

 which relates to the change from agricultural to hunting life wrought 

 in the aborigines by the invasion of the buffalo ; or, rather, it might 

 be called the reciprocal action of buffalo and Indian. The burning of 

 forests encouraged the growth of grass ; this invited the buffalos ; they 

 enticed the farmer from his stone hoe and laborious husbandry to take 

 up the spear and the bow. Meat was easier to procure than corn ; 

 furthermore, the buffalo destroyed the corn and left the farmer nothing 

 else to do but to pursue the occupation of Nimrod. 



M. Marcelin Boule brought together in L^Anthropologie (i, 89-103) a 

 series of reviews ou quaternary geology in its relation to the antiquity 

 of man. This list includes Forsyth Major, ou the Mammalian fauna of 

 the Val d'Arno {Quart. J. Geol. Soc, Lond., xli, p. 1); A. J. ,lukes- 

 Browno, on the Bowlder clays of Lincolnshire {id., 114) ; Aubrey Stra- 

 hein, on the Glaciation of South Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Welsh 

 Border {id., xlii, 360) ; R. M. Dilley, on the Pleistocene succession in 

 the Trent Basin {id., xlii, 437) ; J. Prestwich, ou the Date, duration, 

 and conditions of the glacial period, with reference to the antiquity of 

 man {id., xliii, 393); T. Mellard Reade, on An estimate of post-glacial 

 times {id., xliv, 291); Rev. O. Fisher, on the Occurrence of elephas 

 meridionalis at Dewiest, Dorset {id., xliv, 818); .]. R. Kilroe, ou Direc- 

 tion of ice-flow in the north of Ireland {id., xliv, 827); James Croll, 

 ou Prevailing misconceptions regarding the evidence which we ought 

 to expect from former glacial periods {id., XLV, 220) ; J. Prestwich, on 

 the Occurrence of pah^olithic implements in the neighborhood of Ight- 

 ham, Kent {id., xlv, 270) ; Henry Hicks, on the Cac Gwyue Cave, 

 North Wales {id., xliv, 561). 



