1890.] Address. 99 



The Journal of the Society of Ghemical Industry contains an interest- 

 ing account of the Opium industry in the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh, by 

 Dr. P. A. Weir. 



In the Zeitsclirift fur angeioandte Gliemie M. Honig gives a method 

 for the determination of indigotin in commercial indigo, based on the 

 fact that aniline and nitro-benzeue in a boiling state are moderate 

 solvents for indigotin, the whole of which under certain conditions may 

 be completely dissolved and crystallised out. 



Messrs. J. Bertram and E. Gildemeister have investigated (Journ. 

 Prakt. Chemie), betel-oil obtained from the dried leaves of Piper 

 hetle and found an entirely different phenol from the Ghavicol obtained 

 by Eykman from the fresh leaves. This phenol the authors call Betel 

 phenol. They have also prepared other derivatives. 



In the Ghem. Berichte, E. Jahns has published an investigation of 

 the alkaloids of the Areca nut. 



Anthropology and Ethnology. 



So far as can be judged from the publications, anthropological 

 science has not made much way in India during the year. The re- 

 sults of the valuable work done by Mr. H. H. Risley, in Bengal, which 

 we hoped to have seen published during the year, have not yet appeared. 



In our own Jotirnal or Proceedings, there are but few papers of 

 anthropological or ethnographical interest. In Part II, N'o. 2, Mr. 

 Wood-Mason has described a neo-lithic celt found near the village of 

 Bagicha, near Jashpur, in the Chota-l!fagpore District. Papers on the 

 Savaras and on the Pohiras of the Lohardugga District, by Mr. W. H. P. 

 Driver, were read at the November and December meetings and will 

 be published in the Joiirnal. 



The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, contains 

 several interesting papers, among which may be cited : — A Note on 

 Anthropology in India, by Mr. H. H. Risley, C. S., in which he points 

 out the lines on which organised anthropological observations in India 

 should run. On Pitars or Tanks, by Mr. K. Ragunathji. Mr. E, 

 Rehatsek continues his Statistics of Suicides in Bombay, and Mr. J. de 

 Cunha has a note on the same subject. Mr. Kedarnath Basu gives a col- 

 lection of 232 superstitions in Bengal. Purushotam Balkhrishna Joshi 

 describes the Gondhalis, a class of Maratha bards, and their special 

 dance, the gondhal, performed in honour of the goddess Amba Bhavani. 

 Dr. J. G. de Cunha contributes an interesting paper on Amulets. 

 Surgeon Major K. R. Kirtikar gives an account of the ceremonies ob- 

 served among Hindus during pregnancy and parturition. Lt.-Col. 

 Gunthorpe's note on the Bhande Kumars contains some interesting in- 



