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aflord to bav«^ our papers ai)pear in our society organ because the sub- 

 scription periodicals offer "ood prices for tlieui." Tliis fact marks au 

 epoch in the history of authr()i)ological literature and invites the socie- 

 ties to explore new fields to which the general reader has not arrived. 

 Indeed it is impossible to chronicle all the i)eriodicals of purely scien- 

 tific character that lend their pages to our pens. 



If the following journals be scrutinized in their original papers, re- 

 views, and book-lists, little that is desirable will es(;ape the reader: 



Academij, London; American Antuiuarian and OrientalJournal, Men- 

 don, 111.; The American Naturalist, New York ; L^Anthropolopie, Furis ; 

 Athourum, London; Ausland, Stuttgardt; Internationale ArcJiiv filr 

 Ethnograpkie^ Leiden ; Nature, London ; The Popular Science Monthly, 

 New York ; Science, New York. 



5. The four events of national interest each year are, the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science, the Association Francaise pour 

 I'Avancement des Sciences, and the AUgemeine Versammluiig der 

 <leutschen Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie. During the year 1889, the 

 first named met in Newcastle-on-Tyne, the second in Toronto, the third 

 in Paris, in connection with the Exi)osition, tbe fourth in Vienna. 



The programme of the anthropological section of the British Associ- 

 ation was as i'ollows: Marks for bodily efiiciency in examination of 

 candidates for public service, Francis Galton, Early failure of pairs 

 of grinding teeth, W. W. Smith. Development of the wisdom teeth, 

 Ivedolfo Livi. Left-leggedness, W, K. Sibley. Occasional eighth true 

 rib in man, D. J. Cunningham. Proportion of bone and cartilage in 

 the lumbar section of the vertebral column in apes and in men, id. 

 ]\Iode] of the head of a man said to be one hundred and six years old, 

 id. Head and shoulders of a young orang, id. European origin of 

 early Egy])tian art; J. Wilson. African airs and musical instruments, 

 Governor Maloney. The Vikings the ancestors of English-speaking 

 nations, P. B. du Chaillu. Origin of the Aryans, Isaac Taylor. Eth- 

 nological significance of the beech, Isaac Taylor. Right of property in 

 trees on another's land, Hyde Clarke. Report of committee on the tribes 

 of Asia Minor. Report of committee on anthropological notes and 

 ((ueries. Report of committee on anthropological measures taken at 

 Bath. New anthropometric instrument for the use of travelers, F. 

 Galton. Instruments for measuring re-action time, irZ. The Smithson- 

 ian Institution in relation to Anthropology, T. Wilson. The study of 

 ethonology in India, H. H. Risley. Former beliefs and customs of 

 Torres Straits islanders, A. C. fladdon. Notes collected at Morvat, 

 New Guineii, Edwaid Beardmore. The Jiritish race in Australia, Dr. 

 McLaurin. Color of the skin in certain Oriental races, T. Beddoe. Tem- 

 perature of negroes and Europeans in tropical countries, R. W. 

 Fellcin. Sensibility in Europeans and in negroes, id. The Esqui- 

 maux, Fridtj of Nauvsen. Northumberland in x>i'ehistoric times, G. 

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