594 PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1889. 



Koine Hall. Implemeuts of stag's lioru with whales' skeletons in the 

 Carse of Stirling, Sir William Turner. The origin of human faculty, 

 G. J. Romanes. Brain functions and human character, B. Hollander. 

 Topography of the brain in relation to the surface of the head. Pro- 

 fessor Fraser. Classitication of sociology, G. Weddell. Fire- making 

 in North Borneo, S. B. J. Skertchley. The tribes of South Africa, T. 

 Macdonald. Report on occupation and employments, their effects on 

 the development of the human body. Report on the northwestern 

 tribes of Canada, six plates, pp. 797-893. Report on an archaeological 

 map of the British Isles. 



Colonel Mallery, of the Bureau of Ethnology, opened the session of 

 the anthropological section of the American Association with a strik- 

 ing paper entitled Israelite and Indian. The following is the programme 

 of Section H : Aboriginal fire-makiiig, Walter Hough. Shinto, the re- 

 ligion of the Japanese, Rorayn Hitchcock. Siouan terms for " myste- 

 rious" and " serpent," J. O. Dorsey. Gens and sub-gens in four Siouan 

 languages, J. O. Dorsey. Principles of evidence relating to the antiquity 

 of man W. J. McGee. Evolution of ornament, W. H. Holmes. Mounds 

 of North Dakota, Henry Montgomery. Iroquois white-dog feast, W. M. 

 Beauchamp. Missions Indians of California, H. W. Heushaw. Suc- 

 cessors of paleolithic man in the Delaware Valley, C. C. Abott. 

 Winnepeg mound region, George Bryce. Artificial languages, David 

 R. Keys. New linguistic family in California, H. W. Henshaw. The 

 Parsee towers of silence, Mrs. R. Hitchcock. Seega, an Egyptian 

 game, H. C. Bolton. Onondaga Shamanistic masks, De Cost Smith. 

 Gold ornaments from Florida, A. E. Douglas. Alphabet of the Winne- 

 bago Indians, Miss Alice C. Fletcher. Great medicine society of the 

 Ojibwa, W.J. Hoffman. Algonkin Onomatology, A. F. Chamberlain. 

 Indian personal names, J. O. Dorsey. Huron-Iroquois of the St. 

 Lawrence and lake region, D. Wilson. Gesture language of the 

 Blackfeet, J. McLean. The African in Canada, J. C. Ilamelton. 

 Indian burial in New York, W. M. Beauchamp. Portrait pipe in 

 Central America, A. E, Douglas. Government of the Six Nations, 

 Oji-ja-tekka. Ancient Japanese tombs and burial grounds, R. Hitch- 

 cock. Explorations around the serpent mound, Ohio. Aboriginal 

 monuments in North Dakota, Henry Montgomery. Little Fall quartzes, 

 Franc E. E. Babbitt. A Mississaqua legend, A. F. Chamberlain. 

 Places of gentes in Siouan camping circles, J. O. Dorsey. Onomato- 

 poeia interjections, etc., J. O. Dorsey. Ancient pit-dwcllers in Yezo, 

 R. Hitchcock. Steatite ornaments from Susquehanna River, A. Wan- 

 ner. Plskimo of Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson St., F. F. Payne. Con- 

 tents of children's mounds, H. H. Ballard. The Accads, Virginia H. 

 Bowers. 



The programme of the French Association was made far more interest- 

 ing bj' the illustrative collections in the Paris Exposition. The following 

 subjects were discussed : The Svastika and the cross as religious era- 



