484 PKOGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1892. 



union with the London Society of Antiquaries, is the issue of an index 

 of arch .geological papers, published in 1891. There is a list of 45 

 societies and Journals in all, and 33 pages of titles, succeeded by an 

 alphabetic list of places, subjects, authors, and societies with their 

 publications. The secretary of this congress of societies is W. H. St. 

 John Hope, Burleigh House, London. 



M. A. C. Chatelier contributes to La Bevue Scientifiqiie (xlix, 457- 

 401) a resume of i)rehistoric studies in North Africa. To the work of 

 codification is added a bibliography of 70 titles upon the same subject. 



M. Zabarowski calls attention to the doubtful antiquity of the Can- 

 stadt skull. It was discovered in 1700, but, according to Dr. llerve it 

 was really seen first in the vitrine of the museum of Stuttgard a hun- 

 dred years after the digging from which it is supposed to have come. 

 Dr. Brinton also reverts to the same question in Science. Indeed, the 

 year 1892 marks an epoch of decline in the belief that man has had an 

 exceedingly high auti(iuity in Europe or America. The result of such 

 questionings will be a review of the grounds of belief, with a strength- 

 ening of the foundations of knowledge. 



The article of Louis Theureau, in La Bevue SelenUfique (l, 304-369) 

 on alimentation in India, calls especial attention to the fact that it has 

 been from time imuiemorial a country whose food was essentially vege- 

 tal, under the influence of an idea on which is fouuded a philosophic 

 and religious system, belief in metempsychosis or migration of the 

 soul. About fifty titles bearing on the subject aiT quoted, adding great 

 value to the article. 



An epoch-making investigation for archaeolgoists was that of William 

 H. Holmes upon ancient (juarries in the United States. The result of 

 the first investigation into the quarry site on Piuey Branch near Wash- 

 ington, is givenin t\\ii American Anthropologist, (iii, 1-26). Dr. Brinton 

 calls attention sliarply to this work in a short paragraph on 'quarry 

 subjects,' in Science (November 4, 1892). Since then a controversy, 

 characterized by no little acrimony, sprang up between what might be 

 termed the old school and the new school on this subject. Two distinct 

 questions are involved in the controversy, namely, whether the objects 

 are palaeolithic implements or the rejected pieces of the aboriginal 

 quarryman; and, secondly, whether they are geologically situated to 

 denote very great antiquity. 



The trustees of the British Museum printed an album containing 

 autotype facsimiles of the Telel-Amarna tablets. A review of this work 

 will be found in liature, vol. xlvi, pages 49-52. During the sum- 

 mer of 1887 a woman belonging to the household of one of the ''an- 

 tica" dealers, who live at or near Tel-el-Aniarna in Upper Egypt, 

 set out to follow her usual avocation of digging in the sand and loose 

 earth at the foot of the hills for small antiquities. The exact details of 

 her search will never be known, but it is certain that in a small cham- 

 |)er at no great depth below the surface she found a number of clay 



