486 PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1892. 



true features of the advanced communities of the New World, to 

 analyse their social structure and economy, to measure by some definite 

 standard the degree of progress they had attained, and to trace their 

 history, so far as it can be recovered, distinguishing what can fairly 

 be accepted as fact, from what can be shown with reasonable certainty 

 to be fabulous." 



VIT. SIOCIOLOCIY. 



The Quarterly Journal o/"^J(*o«o?w/c.S', published for Harvard Univer- 

 sity, in Boston, is valuable to the student not only for tlie papers and 

 original investigations which it reports, but for its bibliography of 

 economics. The titles are classified under (1) general works, theory, 

 audits history; (2) production, exchange, and transportation; (3) social 

 questions, labor, and capital (4) land; (5) population, emigration, and 

 colonies; (0) international trade and customs tariffs; (7) finance and 

 taxation; (8) banking, currency, credit, and prices; (9) legislation; (10) 

 economic history and description; (11) statistics; (12) not classified. 



Native fairs in Alaska were reported to the ]SIumisinatic and Anti- 

 quarian Society of Pliiladeli)hia by Lieut. Gorgas, U. S. Navy. Begin- 

 ning at the south a fair is held in June at Port Clarence, just south of 

 the narrowest part of the straits. It is numerously attended by 

 Chukchis of Siberia, the natives of St. Lawrence Island, south of the 

 straits, and by others from Cape Prince of Wales on the American 

 mainland. The second fair is held at Hotham inlet, on the north shore 

 of Kotzebue Sound. It lasts through July and August, and is attended 

 by about 1,500 peoj)le, some Siberians, but mostly natives, especially 

 from Point Ho])e, these being the principal traders of the coast. 



A third fair is at Point Lay, and a fourth at Camden Bay, not far 

 from the mouth of Mackenzie Eiver. 



The trading boats make a regular round of these fairs, carrying 

 articles in demaud from one to another; so that some from the far in- 

 terior of Asia will in a few years be transported along the shores of 

 the Arctic Sea and southerly indefinitely into the center of the conti- 

 nent. (Brinton, I'^ciencCj xix., 287.) 



Galton's work on finger prints is thus briefiy reviewed in the Jour- 

 nal of the Anthropological InMitute: 



The autlior considers the subject under the following divisious: (1) Introductory. 

 (2) The previous employment of finger prints among various nations, which has 

 been almost wholly confined to making daulis, without paying any regard to the 

 delicate lineations with which this book alone is concerned. (3) Various methods 

 of making good prints from the fingers are described at length, es])ecially those 

 used at Mr. Galton's anthropometric laboratory at South Kensington. (4) The 

 character and purpose of the ridges whose lineations appear in the finger print. 

 (5) The various patterns formed by the lineations. (6) The question of persistence; 

 whether the patterns are so durable as to afford a sure basis for identification. (7) 

 An attempt to appraise the evidential value of finger prints by the law of probabil- 

 ity. (8) The frequency with which various kinds of patterns appear on the differ- 



