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Government of Japan to the city of Chicago, and are to be kept 

 filled with interesting collections, which will be changed from 

 time to time. To visit these various exhibits of Japan is to gain 

 an insight into most delightful features of Japanese art, life, and 

 character. 



Although results of great importance to anthropology in 

 America must result from all this display of material, it is be- 

 lieved that other permanent results must come from the congress 

 and the library. In August an International Congress of An- 

 thropology is planned. To it are invited the world's workers in 

 the science, and before it are to be read important papers. The 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, the 

 American Folk-lore Society, and the American Psychical Society 

 unite in seeking the interests of this congress, and from it should 

 come decided impulse to our anthropological work. As to the 

 library, Prof. Putnam has issued an appeal to anthropologists 

 asking contributions of all they have written in the science as a 

 donation to a permanent library of that subject, to be located in 

 Chicago, in connection with the Memorial Museum. The collec- 

 tion is to be catalogued and the catalogue published. Should this 

 plan be carried out, the catalogue would be the best reference list 

 to anthropological literature ever prepared. 



It must be plain that in the Chicago Exposition we have a 

 great object lesson in anthropology: a museum of somatology, 

 archseology, and ethnology ; a picture of ethnography ; a labora- 

 tory of unusual completeness ; a great meeting of workers ; and 

 the publication of new material. 



A NOTE presented in the French Academy of Sciences from Dora D. D4mondin 

 relates to the manifestation of sudden variations of temperature at fixed times in 

 the latter half of January, as observed during more than six hundred years past. 

 The author lias examined with regard to this subject meteorological notes re- 

 corded between 1582 ?md 1879, or during about three hundred years; and for the 

 preceding three centuries he has consulted various public documents, particularly 

 the Ann ales des Dominicnins dc Colmar, from 1211 to 1305. He has thus veri- 

 fied, as for the centuries included, alternations of temperature marked by a depres- 

 sion about the 18th and an elevation toward the 23d and 29th of January, the 

 temperature continuing low during the intervening days. 



IT has been suggested by Colonel R. W. Feilden that the musk ox might with 

 gre .t advantage be introduced into Great Britain ; and the author sees no reason 

 why it should not thrive on the mountains of the Highlands in Scotland. It is 

 covered in the winter season, beside? its cost of hair, with a long-stapled fine 

 wool, of a light yellow color, and as fine as silk. Sir John Richardson savs that 

 stockings made from this wool are handsomer than those from silk. Young 

 musk oxen are easily reared and tamed, and could probably be procured from the 

 arctic regions without great difficulty. 



