ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Booh 1. — Prehistoric timcfi : Comprising- antliropological researches, 

 cosmogonic traditious, the autoclitliouic race, the origins of civilization 

 iu the south and in the north, *. e., ^^ maya-Jciche^^ and ^^naoha," primi- 

 tive monuments, hmguages, religions, customs, &c. 



Boole 2. — The ^'■Meca,^'' comprising the various emigrations of this 

 X)eriod, the change of civilization, &c. 



Booh 3. — The " Tdlteca,^^ comprising the history of all the contempo- 

 raneous nations, the new civilization, new customs, new monuments, &c. 



Boo1c_4:. — The '■'■ Mexica^^'' comprising the Aztec migration, the history 

 of the Anahuac people, and of the nations related to them, with a special 

 treatise on their sociology. 



Booli 5. — Greatness and downfall of Mexico, comprising the Con- 

 quest. 



Two works on Japanese prehistoric archaiology appeared in 1884, 

 composed, printed, and illustrated by natives. The impetus to this 

 work was tirst given by Professor Morse in his explorations among the 

 Omori shell-heaps. The two volumes just mentioned arrest the atten- 

 tion both by the similarity of humbler forms and ornamentation with 

 the same classes iu America, and by the existence of higher forms 

 (juite different from American. If this has any bearing upon the ques- 

 tion of ethnic contact, it speaks against rather than for the theory. 

 (See " Jijima" and " Kanda" in the bibliography.) 



BIOLOGY. 



The final agreement of the German anthropologists upon a method 

 of cranial measurement has been reviewed during the year by Dr. J. G. 

 Garson. After a careful study of the code, the conclusion is reached 

 that the importance of the following measurements (numbered the same 

 as in.the text of the agreement) has been recognized, and the method of 

 making them is now agreed upon generally: 



Bi-jugal breadth. 

 Bi-zygomatic breadth. 

 Interorbital breadth. 

 Heiglit of nose. 

 Breadth of nose. 

 Orbital breadth. _ 

 Orbital height. 

 Basioalveolar lenath. 



Infra-jugal face-width. 



Maximum horizontal orbital breadth. 



Vertical height of orbits. 



Palatal length. 



Palatal breadth. 



Posterior palatine breadth, . 



Profile angle. 



