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an Atlas der Volkerkunde. There aie in it tifteoii folio maps, to wit: 

 I. Distiibiitioii of skin and hail; II. Density of popnlation; iii. Distri- 

 bntion of ivliiiions; iv. J)istribntion of diseases; v. (Uothiii.^, food, 

 dwelling, and oecnpation: vi. Locationsof peoples in 1500 and 1.S80; vii. 

 I'>ni'oi)e in 1S80; viii. Asia in 1880; ix. Southeast Asia; x. Oeeanica; 

 XI. Africa; xiT. Aborijiinal America; xrii. America in 188(h xiv. Lin- 

 guistic map: xv. Europe about 100-150 after Christ. The charts are 

 ])receded by descriptive text and an alphabetic catalogue of all tribes 

 mentioned, with reference to the latitude and longitude of their habitat. 

 The origin of the ]\[anchu race, to which the reigning dynasty in 

 China beh)ngs (see yature, London, 1802, XLV, 523, quoting from North 

 China Herald, Shanghai), is thus set forth: 



Tlie Tiiiigiis tribes, to wliicli tlie Maiiclm bcldiiji;, are scattered about, in Siberia 

 and Mancliniia in rather small coniniuuities. They appear in history in the Chow 

 dynasty. The Mongols as a race are probably an oti'shoot from Tnngns stock. The 

 consanguinity that exists between Manchn and Mongol is greater than that which is 

 found to i)rcvail between Mongol and Turk, and therefore it nniy be concluded that 

 the Tungus, either in Siberia or in Manchuria or on the Amur, threw otf a branch 

 which b(H'auii' Mongol. Genghis Khan and his tribe started on their conquest of the 

 Asiatic continent from the neighborhood of the gold mines in Nuchinsk, and the 

 Mongols are not tishermen by preference nor hunters of the sable, martin, and beaver. 

 They are rather keepers of sheep and riders of horses and camels. Tliey might 

 easily develop their language in the vicinity of the Altai mountains and the Baikal. 



As to the Manchus, they have forgotten their early occupation since coming to 

 China, and they attend iu)W onlj^ to the duties of the public service or to military 

 training. The language like the Mongol is rich with the spoils of autiiinity. All the 

 various forms of culture, whether belonging to Shamanism, Confucianism, or P.uddhism, 

 with which they have become successively familiar, have contributed a share. To 

 these must be added the vocabulai-y of the huntsman, the hshermau, and the shep- 

 licrd, and all the terms necessary to feudal relationship as well as those of the trades 

 and occupations of the old civilization. 



EthnoUMi}! of Mahyreh. — Dr. Brinton proposed to adopt the Arab 

 name, Mahgreb, for that iiortion of Africa west of the Nile Valley and 

 nortli of the soutiiern boundary of the Saliara. l^'roni time immemorial 

 it has been the home of the Berber, or Mamitic, or Protosemitic i)eoples. 

 (For the i)rehistory of this region consult A. Chatelin, in Rouie Scien- 

 tific, April 9, 1802.) Pala'olitliic man is said to have been here, suc- 

 ceeded by neolithic communirics and megalithic structures, erected 

 by ancestors of the Berbers. The same Berber stock has possessed 

 ^Nlahgreb from the very earliest times to the present day. 



TrZ/.s. — An instructive disenssion on the origin and migration of the 

 Celts Avas begun b.\' Dr. Itiintoii in ASc/cHce (March 11) and continued 

 through subsequent nnni])ers. J'iiis disenssion is not only valual)le for 

 what the aiitiiors of the notes say, bnt for the excellent works (pioied. 



Proi". Sergi pul)lislie(l in tlie /'xtllctino dclla R. Aecademia Mvdica di 

 L'oiuo, \un. xviii, fasc. ii, a [)aper on the varieties of mankind in 

 ^Melanesia, which is reprinteil in Archiv fiir AufJiropohx/h., x.vi, 330- 

 3Si. The essay is remarkable, among other excellences, for the ex- 



