608 PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1889. 



Ill, 276, New Hebrides, Martiue. Maoris, Tregear. Maoris, White. 

 Moa, hunters of New Zealand, Mc'Donnell. Nicobar Islanders, Man. 

 Papuans, Hamy. Papuans, Schelloug. Crania, Philippine Islanders, 

 Struve. The Island of Reunion, BlondeL Solomon Islands, Woodford. 

 Tasmanians, Ling Koth. 



By looking over the bibliographic list accompanying this summary it 

 will be readily seen that there are many works of inestimable value to 

 the ethnologist which would be indexed under other catch-words. Mr. 

 Galtou's paper on gold working among the Peruvians, and Mr. Kina- 

 han's on Irish proverbs, were written — the former from a technical point 

 of view, the latter for a folk-lore journal, but the student of the Peru- 

 vians or the Irish could omit neither their arts nor their lore. The best 

 the summarist can do is to base his index on the motive of the writer 

 with such cross reference as he can make. 



v.— GLOSSOLOGY. 



The eighth international congress of Orientalists was held in Stock- 

 holm and Christiania from the 2d to the 13th of September. The 

 meeting was under the immediate patronage and presidency of His 

 Majesty King Oscar. Never in the history of science have more 

 elaborate iireparations been made for the entertainment of such an 

 assembly. 



The congress was composed of five sections, as follows: (1) Semitic 

 and Islam, (a) Languages and literatures of Islam, (ft) Semitic 

 languages, other than Arabic ; cuneiform texts and inscriptions. (2) 

 Aryan. (3) African, including Egyptology. (4) Central Asia and 

 the far East. (5) Malay and Polynesia. 



At the Paris Exposition the student of living languages did not lack 

 for opportunities to investigate the natives of every part of the globe. 

 In the separate exhibits, colonial headquarters, cafes, bazaars, and, 

 above all, on the Esplanade des Invalides, the highest and the lowest 

 could be investigated. 



An amusing example of the French desire to exhaust the possibilities 

 of a subject was furnished by the placard posted in every available 

 space by the proprietors of the Decauville Railroad. This was a narrow 

 gauge tramway running to all parts of the Exposition, and the passenger 

 was warned in more than twenty tongues not to expose his head or his 

 arms or his legs to the trees along the route. 



The volume of Paul Regnaud, on the origin and philosophy of lan- 

 guage, treats the subject purely from a natural history point of view. 

 The study is divided into three parts : (1 ) Exposition of theories already 

 proposed. (2) Attempt at a new theory. (3) Future of languages 

 and linguistic studies. Under the first head are reviewed, language as 

 a revelation, as an instinct, as an invention, as having a spontaneous 

 origin. In the second part the evolution of language is consider, d in 

 in the two lines of form and sense. Upon the subject of the future of 



