214 ee Miscellanies. 
the number of hands employed, 117,352; and the capital invested, 
$54,851,643, The population of the State is 701,331. Thus it seems 
that more than a seventh of the whole population are engaged in some 
branch of manufactures; that the annual value of the industry of each 
laborer is more than seven hundred dollars; and that their united labor 
produces a yearly sum nearly double the capital invested. 
5. Crania Americana: Or a comparative view of the skulls of various 
Aboriginal nations of North and South America; to which is prefixed an 
Essay on the varieties of the human species, and on the American race 
in particular : illustrated by sixty plates, and a colored map. By Samvet 
Georce Morron, M.D. Phila., for the author, by J. Fuller. 1838. Folio, 
An announcement of the proposed publication of this great work, was 
contained in the 32d volume of this Journal, (page 207,) although we 
did not then expect that any part of it would be laid before the public so 
soon. The part now on our table comprises the prospectus and eighteen 
beautiful plates. The American press has rarely issued a book in so libe- 
ral a style. The figures of the skulls are drawn on stone, with much 
peat and elegance, and of the natural size, one head only being placed 
each plate, instead of two, as at first proposed. We are told in the 
uel, that the introductory essay will embrace a brief illustrative 
view of the human species; the strictly American portion of the work 
will contain lithographic illustrations of more than forty Indian nations, 
with a particularly extended series from North America. The extraordi- 
nary distortions of the crania of some of the tribes will be illustrated, and 
those from the mounds and caves of our western territory will form a sep- 
arate division of the work. The author’s materials for the successful com- 
pletion of his great undertaking, are more ample, probably, than those of 
any other individual; and as he has no favorite hypothesis to support, we 
may expect a candid exposition of facts, and a strict adherence to them. 
Many interesting developments respecting the natural history of man,will 
- doubtless arise from these investigations. 'The work is in such a state of 
forwardness, that it is proposed to deliver it to subscribers by the first of 
October, . We trust that the author may receive sufficient encouf- 
agement, especially as he has, single-handed, shouldered the expense of 
this great undertaking. The work is to be obtained from the se: by 
subscription,—the price, $20. 
6. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York.—The 
first four numbers of the fourth volume, under the same covers, of the AD- 
nals of this Society, have recently appeared. The article by Mr. J. 
Redfield, on the fossil fishes of Connecticut, has already excited much at- 
tention among those fctesnted. in that subject, as may bo seo hy wtes 
ence to the remarks of Professor Agassiz, contained in thisnumber. The 
