214 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 Samuel 

 George Morton, 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 

 fidelity and elegance, and of the natural size, one head only being placed 

 on each plate, instead of two, as at first proposed. We are told in the 

 prospectus, 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, 1838. We trust that the author may receive sufficient encour- 

 agement, especially as he has, single-handed, shouldered the expense of 

 this great undertaking. The work is to be obtained from the publisher by 

 subscription, — the price. 



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 An- 

 nals of this Society, have recently appeared. The article by Mr. J. H. 

 Redfield, on the fossil fishes of Connecticut, has already excited much at- 

 tention among those interested in that subject, as may be seen by a refer- 

 ence to the remarks of Professor Agassiz, contained in this number. The 



