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SGIENGE. 



[N. S. Vol. VII. No. 166. 



Mr. H. A. Surface, Fellow in Cornell University : 

 ' Notes on the fish fauna of Cayuga Lake. ' 



The following papers were read by title : 



Professor George A. Dorsey, Chicago : ' Description 

 of two Koutenay skeletons' and 'Two examples of 

 unusual ossification of the first costal cartilages.' 



Dr. E. E. Hodge, Washington, D. C. : ' Eelation of 

 sex to the size of the articular surfaces of the long 

 bones. ' 



Dr. J. T. Duncan, Toronto, Canada : 'Anus vul- 

 valis. ' 



Dr. Woods Hutchinson : 'A skin heart.' 



The following ofiBcers were elected for 

 the ensuing term : Dr. B. G. Wilder, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., President; Dr. Geo. A. Piersol, 

 Philadelphia, First Vice-President ; Dr. 

 William Keiller, Galveston, Texas, Second 

 Vice-President ; Dr. D. S. Lamb, Washing- 

 ton, D.C., Secretary and Treasurer. 



Dr. F. J. Brockway, of New York City, 

 Delegate, and Dr. E. W. Shufeldt, of 

 Washington, Alternate, to Executive Com- 

 mittee of Congress of American Physicians 

 and Surgeons. 



Dr. F. J. Shepherd, of Montreal, Canada, 

 member of the Executive Committee of the 

 Association, in place of Dr. Huntington, 

 term expired. 



The following eminent anatomists of the 

 Old World were elected honorary members: 

 Dr. Mathias Duval, Paris ; Dr. Carl Gegen- 

 baur, Heidelberg ; Dr. Wilhelm His, Leip- 

 zig ; Dr. Albert von Kolliker, Wurzburg ; 

 Dr. Alexander Macalister, Cambridge ; Dr. 

 L. Ranvier, Paris. 



It is understood that the next meeting 

 will be held in New York City, in the 

 Christmas Holidays, in conjunction with 

 the Society of Naturalists and other affili- 

 ated societies. 



D. S. Lamb, 

 Secretary. 



CURRENT NOTES ON ANTHROPOLOGY. 

 SOUTH AMERICAN ETHNOGEAPHT. 



The praiseworthy industry of linguists in 

 South America is rapidly dispelling the un- 

 certainty which has so long hung over the 



affiliations of tribes in that continent. Their 

 recent labors merit a much fuller notice 

 than can here be given, but they must at 

 least be named. 



Two articles by Samuel A. Lafone 

 Quevedo deserve especial mention. One is, 

 indeed, a volume of nearly 400 pages, with 

 map, etc., on the tongue of the Abipones 

 (in the Boletin of the National Academy of 

 Cordoba, Vol. XV.) ; the other is on the 

 dialects of the Chanases and their neigh- 

 bors (in the Boletin of the Geog. Inst., 

 Tom. XVIII.). Both are excellent pieces 

 of work. 



Dr. Eodolfo Lenz has continued his 

 thorough investigations of the Araucanian 

 idiom by a series of pieces in the Pehuenche 

 and a number of songs in that and the 

 Moluche dialects (in the Anales of the Uni- 

 versity of Chile, Tom. XCVII.) ; and an in- 

 structive popular lecture on Araucanian 

 literature, printed in the Bevista del Sur. 



A very fine monograph, ethnographic and 

 linguistic, is that on the Matacos by Juan 

 Pelleschi (pp. 248, with two maps, printed 

 in the Boletin of the Geographical Institute, 

 Buenos Aires). It is accurate, original and 

 exhaustive. 



LIVING TRIBES IN THE STONE AGE. 



In a few remote corners of the earth there 

 are yet tribes in the full Stone Age, living 

 under the conditions of early neolithic man 

 in Europe. Von den Steinen found such 

 at the head waters of the Xingu ; the Jesuits 

 not long ago discovered such in the interior 

 of Alaska ; and a report has lately been 

 published by the La Plata Museum of the 

 Guayaquis, who dwell in Paraguay, near 

 the head waters of the Eiver Acaray, and 

 who are alleged to be true Stone Age people. 

 They are not over 500 or 600 in all, and are 

 a timid, harmless set, shunning the whites 

 from whom they have never received any- 

 thing but brutal treatment. Their arms 

 are the bow, the lance and the stone toma- 



