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genera', student ; the same is true of the hundreds of technographic chap- 

 ters that have been written. 



Tlie reader may consult with profit The American Manufacturer, 

 Anuales des Pouts et Chaussees, Patcnt-Ofhce Keports, Report of the 

 Department of Agriculture, L'Art, English Mechanic, Journal of the 

 Society of Arts, Scientific American and Supplement. 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



Leaving the question of anthropogeny to the biologists the archaeolo- 

 gist will still be concerned with primitive man. He desires to know 

 where our race made its debut on this planet, how long ago it was, and 

 what was the intellectual and material stock in trade of that first man. 



For the study of what M. Collignon calls L'homme avant I'Histoire 

 there is constantly collecting fresh material. 



The geologist and the palseoutologist are the first to take the stand. 

 Mr. W J McGee, of the U. S. Geological Survey, whose especial de- 

 partment is the quaternary period, has addressed himself to the strati- 

 grai)hic question, while the pahvontology has been discussed by Mar- 

 cellin Boule, and the cotemporaneity of the mammoth and man by J. 

 M. Clarke and H. Howorth, MM. de Puydt and Lohest. 



On the subject of the antiquity of man we have a paper by L. Guig- 

 nard, relating to France ; by A. R. Wallace, on the antiquity of man in 

 America; by E. Riviere, on the antiquity of man in the Alps. 



There has been a question agitated between geologists, palaeontolo- 

 gists, and archaeologists whether in cave and other explorations we are 

 to regard the form and finish of implements, the associated animal 

 remains, or the condition of the strata, to be the best guide to a knowl- 

 edge of the age of the deposit. The case has been pretty thoroughly 

 reviewed by Henry Hicks and Worthington G. Smith. (Nature, xxxvii 

 105, 129, 202.) 



A fresh classification of archaeology is marked by the appearance in 

 England of a new journal, the Archaeological Review. The range and 

 divisions of the subjects are: (1) Institutional archaeology, which ex- 

 tends the domain of archaeology into that of sociology. Indeed, every 

 branch of anthropology may thus have its archaeology. (2) Anthropo- 

 logical arch.pology. This is a bad title. It is meant to include biological 

 and technological subjects, the remains of man and of his arts. (3) 

 Folk-lore. The society would include in this the origin of language, all 

 kinds of tales, rhymes, myths, and lore, and the beginnings of philoso- 

 phy. (4) Literature ; that is, the oldest literatures. The society has 

 promised to do one good thing, for which, well done, they will receive 

 the gratitude of all students. They will index all English archaeological 

 publications prior to 188G and current English and foreign archaeologi- 

 cal periodicals, and will issue special indexes to difiereut branches of 

 archiBological research. 



The British Association for the Advaucewent of Science has regular 



