Nov. I, 1S83] 



A^A TURE 



searches and theories of Darwin, tlie objections which have been 

 made to so:ue of his deductions, and the evidence and facts 

 which can lie brought to support his theory, with reference 

 specially to the importance of the labours of Haeckel and other 

 contemporary naturalists, who have contributed to the develop- 

 ment of the Darwinian doctrines, while he lastly draws attention 

 to the various applications of these views beyond the sphere of 

 natural science, strictly so called. — In a paper on the Iroquois 

 Indians Dr. Ten Kate has embodied the most important results 

 of his observations on the physical and social condition of the 

 pure redskins and half-breeds whom he has lately visited in the 

 Indian reservation lands to the west of New York State. He 

 found very few among them of pure Indian descent, but some 

 exhibited a certain degree of prognathism, recalling the same 

 characteristic as seen among tlie Malayan Liplaps. The 

 .average height of the men is i'75m., with a greater corre- 

 sponding length of limb than is usual in whites or mulattoes. 

 They are dolichocephalic. The colour of the eyes is reddish- 

 brown, unlike that of any other race, while the complexion of 

 the children is sometimes as light as that of an Italian. The 

 half-breeds only have beards. Their principal illnesses are of 

 a scrofulous character. The Iroquois dialects, which are gra- 

 dually dying out, have not hitherto been reduced to writing, 

 owing to the numerous anomalous guttural sounds v.hich belong 

 to them. — M. Berenger-Feraml contributes an interesting paper 

 on marriage among the netiroes of .Senagambia. As elsewhere 

 among Africans, the parental tie is slight, divorce is common, 

 women are virtual slaves, and marriages are attended with 

 elaborate ceremonials simply as pretexts for amusements and 

 intemperance. — M. Mondiere in a review of the different races 

 of Indo-China, supplies us with many interesting details in 

 regard to the ethnological and anlhropometrical characteristics 

 of the Tonquins, Cambodians, and Laos, as well .is of the le-s 

 unfamiliar populations of Siam and liurmah. — In the third num- 

 ber of this year's Rczui; we have the concluding part of Broca's 

 description of tht; cerebral convolutions and fissures, which deals 

 specially with the frontal lobes. — M. M. Duval continues his 

 lectures. on " Transfonnisme" carrying down his analysis of the 

 most imp irtant works on the D.arwinian theory of evolution to 

 the sociological and psychological views of Herbert Spencer, 

 and the biological researches of Huxley. — Investigations into the 

 nature of several supernumerary mucles in the antero-internal 

 scapulary region, by Dr. L. Testut. After Cruvilhier, who 

 first drew, attention to some of these muscles, Knott and 

 Macalisjer in Ireland, and Gruber in Germany, among others, 

 have pointed out the not infrequent occurrence of these anomalous 

 structures in man, while in the elephant and bear, and in some 

 of the lower quadrumana, a supernumary caraco humeral and 

 brachial are almost always present. — The so-called " Maye," or 

 May Queen of Provence, is described by Dr. Berenger-Feraud, 

 who traces back the festival, by which the return of the month 

 of May is celebrated in Southern France to the ancient cult of 

 Maia, the mother of Mercury, among the founders and Greek 

 colonists of Marseille-s. In modern times the worship of the 

 Pagan Maia h-.s been transferred to the Virgin Mary, in whose 

 name alms are solicited for the little girl-child, who, veiled, and 

 nearly buried in flowers, is supposed to represent the much 

 venerated " Notre Dame du Mai " of Provence. Theae Provencal 

 May festivals are thus closely allied to the so-called "floral 

 games," which still survive in Cornwall, and repeat on each 

 Sth day .of May some part of the ancient Roman worshiji of the 

 goddess Flora, — M. Deniker passes in review the results of the 

 travels of M. Miklouho-Maclay on the east coasts of New 

 Guinea,, and summarises the information derived from his careful 

 study of the Papuan races of the island, giving at the same time 

 a nuijib^r gf important antliropometric measurements, together 

 with jiumerous interesting ethnological and social data. 



Zeilschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Band xxxviii. Heft 

 3, July, 18S3, contains : On the embryology of Planaria 

 tvlychraa, by Dr. E. Metschnikofl" (plates 15 to 17).-— On the Cre- 

 lenterata of the Southern Ocean, part 3. On the Nematophores 

 of PlumularidK, and on urticaiing cells in the mesoderm 

 (Schirmgallerte) oiCrambessa inosaika, by Dr. R. von Lendenfeld 

 (plate 18). — On Karyokinesis in some Protozoa, by Dr. A. 

 Gruber (plate 19) (Actitiosphccrium eUhhornii axA Amo:ba prin- 

 dps). — Contributions to a knowledge of the development of the 

 Gastropods, by Dr. F. Blochmann (plates 20, 21). — On the 

 glands of the mantle-edge in Aplysia and kindred forms, by Dr. 

 F. Blochmann (plate 22). — Contributions to a knowledge of the 

 Medusa;, by Dr. Otto Hamann (plate 23). — On the cerebrum of 



birds, by Dr. A. Bumm (plates 24, 25). — On Gimnlimts caiidi- 

 mactdalus, by Dr. Hermann von Ihering (plate 26). An 

 interesting study of this little limnophagus Cyprinoid found in 

 Kio Grande do Sul. — Contribution to technical histology, by 

 Prof. H. Fol. 



Heft 4, August, 1883, contains : On the Ccclenterata of the 

 Southern Ocean, part 4. On Eiicopella campamilaria, a new genus 

 belonging to the Campanularidje, by Dr. R. von Lendenfeld (plates 

 27 to 32). This memoir consists of a very elaborate and detailed 

 description of both the hydrosome, gonophore, and ova of this 

 new species. — On the eggshell (Eihaiil) oi Python Invittahis, with 

 remarks on some other reptile eggs, and on the gene>is of their 

 outer layers, by W. von Nathusius-Konigsborn (plates 33, 34). — 

 Researches on some new Medusa; from the Red Sea, by Dr. C. 

 Keller (plates 35 to 37). — On the manner of propagation in 

 Proteus anguineiis, by Marie von Chauvin (plate 38). 



Archives Italiennes de Blologie, tome iii. fasc. ii. May 2b, 

 1S83, contains : — On medical instruction in Italy, by Prof. J. 

 Bizzozero. — On tlie sanitation of the Roman Campagna, by C. 

 Tommasi-Crudeli. — On the therapeutic effect of prolonged tepid 

 baths in pneumonia and typhoid fever, by C. Bjzzolo. — On the 

 structure and affinities of the olfactory lobes in the higher Ar- 

 thropods and the vertebrata, and on a contribution to the histo- 

 genesis of the internal molecular layer of the retina, by G. 

 Bellonci. — On organic particles in the air of high regions, by 

 P. Giacosa. — On the action of cotoine .and paracotoine, by P. 

 Albertoni. — On lung epithelium and. its transformations in dis- 

 ease of th<at organ, by C. Bozzolo and B. Graziadei. — On the 

 comparative anatomy of the skull of the Terramare pig, by Prof. 

 P. Strobel. — On ptomaines, by J. Guareschi and A. Mosso. 



Fasc. iii. July 31, 1883, contains : — On the partial regeneration 

 of the liver, by G. Tizzoni and V. Colucci. — On the presence of 

 cystoliths in some Cucurbitace.-e, by O. Penzig (plate). — On the 

 histology of the nervous centres, by C. Golgi (4 plates). — On the 

 action of iodoform in saccharine diabetes, by C. Bozzolo. — On 

 the normal structure and on alteration caused by experiment in 

 the pacinian corpuscles of birds, by Josephine Cattani. — On 

 negro anatomy, by Prof. C. Giacomini : (i) on the cartilage 

 of the semi- lunar fold in the eye ; (2) Graafian follicles. — On the 

 development in .Salpa, by Prof. F. Todaro. — On some experi- 

 mental researches .is to a new automatic centre in the bulbo-spinal 

 tract, by Dr. J. Fauo. — Anthropometric studies of criminals, by 

 Prof. H, Ferri. — On the anatomical merits of Jerome Fabrizi 

 d'Acquapedente, by Prof. G. Romiti. — On the secretion of bile, 

 by Dr. B. Baldi. — On inoculation of leprosy, by R. Campana. 



Proceedings of the his Natural plistory Society, Dresden, 

 Januaiy to June, 1883. — Obituary notice of Karl Ch. G. Nagel, 

 by H. Engelhardt. — Perceptive faculty of insects and other lower 

 animals, by Prof. B. Vetter. — Fauna of the Suez Canal, by Dr. 

 C. Keller. Up to the present time eleven Mediterranean species 

 have penetrated for the most part as far as Suez, while the Red 

 Sea yields twenty-five species, which, however, have as a rule 

 scarcely yet reached half \\ ay towards the northern entrance. — 

 On a case of albinism observed in the Heidelbeer district, by H. 

 Engelhardt. — A comp.arative study of the flora of the Erzgebirge 

 and Riesengebirge, by Dr. R. Kell. — On the theory of shifting 

 continental and insular climates, w ith special reference to the vege- 

 table relations of Norway, by CI. Konig. — On the so-called 

 "compass plants," by E. Stahl. — On the exploration of the 

 flora of Lapland made by Linne in 1732, by Dr. O. Drude. — 

 On the presence of Anodonta and Planorbis in the Tertiary 

 lignite beds of Schellenken, by Dr. Deichmiiller. — On the source 

 of the nephrite found in North Gemiany, by II. Credner. — On 

 the river valley formations in the Western Erzgebirge, by J. 

 Jacobi. — On the geological formations of Mittweida, with special 

 reference to its flora, by R. Beck. — On a fossil bird from the 

 Bohemian chalk beds, by H. B. Geinitz. — On the presence of 

 copper in the syenite of the Plauenscher Grund, .Saxony, by 

 F. Zschau. — On the limits of the Dyas and Trias systems, by 

 A. Dittmarsch. — On the relation of the protoarseniate of iron 

 to the iron oxide in the magnetic iron ore of Berggiesshiibei, by 

 H. Vater.— Oil G. Laube's "Traces of Man in the Quaternary 

 Formations of the Prague District," by Dr. Deichmiiller. — On 

 the bronze and iron objects found in the clay beds of the Wend- 

 ish Circle, Lievl.and, by A. Engelmann. — On H. Schliemann's 

 " Ilios, City and Land of the Trojans," by H. B. Geinitz. — On 

 a prehistoric find on the Hradi^cht near Stradonitz, by W. 

 Osljorne. — On an ancient burial place at Kunzowo, by F. Raspe. 

 — Find of stone axes at Dippoldiswald, by H. Wiechel. — Or 



