434 SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1891. 
of his first meeting are delightfully referred to in connection with their 
fulfillment of to-day. 
The following communications were made before the section of 
anthropology in 1891: 
Social and religious ideas of the Chinese. By R. K. Douglas. 
Analysis of vowel sounds. R. J. Lloyd. 
Family life of the Haidas. Charles Harrison. 
Report of the northwestern tribes of Canada. By the Committee. 
On the work of Maj. J. W. Powell. Max Miiller. 
Ancient language of the natives of Teneriffe. By the Marquess of Bute. 
The limits of savage religion. F. B. Tylor. 
Couvade. H. Ling Roth. 
Customs of the natives of Assam. §. E. Peal. 
Burial customs of New Britain. B. Danks. 
Barbarie elements in ancient Greece and Italy. G. Hartwell Jones. 
The Morocco Berbers. J. E. B. Meakin. 
On the worship of the meteorites. H. A. Newton. 
Ancient Welsh customs, etc. Dr. Phené. 
First sea wanderings of the English race. W.M. Adams. 
Old-World myths and the Navajo ‘‘ Mountain Chant.” A. W. Buckland. 
East Central African customs. By J. Macdonald. 
Report of the prehistoric inhabitants committee. 
Report of the Elbolton cave comiittee. 
Instinctive criminality. By 8S. A. K. Strahan. 
The anthropometric method of identifying criminals. By J. G. Garson. 
Recent Hittite discoveries. By Dr. Phené. 
The Similkameen Indians of British Columbia. By Mrs.S.S8. Allison. 
Nicobar pottery. By E. H. Man. 
Report of the anthropometric laboratory committee. 
Report of the anthropological notes and queries committee. 
Report of the Indian Committee. 
The French Association for the Advancement of Science held its 
twentieth session in Marseilles, September 17-24. In the eleventh see- 
tion, devoted to anthropology, the following papers of general interest 
were read: 
M. Fauvelle: Succession of environments inhabited by the series of man’s ancestors. 
Delisle: Artificial deformation of the skull in France. The coiffures which pro- 
duce them and the chart of their distribution. 
Philippe Rey: The skulls of the insane. 
Ernest Chantre: Peoples of Russian Armenia. 
Ernest Chantre: Ethnographic objects from the Kurds of Mount Ararat. 
M. Layard: Obsidian from Teneriffe. 
G. de Mortillet: The paleolithic epochs in their relation to the Alpine glaciers. 
F. Barthelemy: Glacial deposits and diluvial deposits of the Mosilla. 
Gustave Chauvet: Classification of Quaternary times in Chauvant. 
A. de Mortillet: The value of objects of human industry as an element in classifying 
quaternary deposits. 
M. Tardy: Prehistoric religious monuments. 
M. Pallery: The hand in Jewish and Mussulman traditions. 
A novel feature of this meeting was the choice of a subject for special 
discussion at the meeting to be held at Pau in 1892 under the pres- 
idency of Dr. Magitot, namely, the criminal type from the anthropo- 
logical point of view. 
