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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. I., No. 11. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



American archeology in Europe. — Dr. Daniel 

 G. Brinton called the attention of the Numismatic 

 and antiquarian society of Philadelphia, on March 1, 

 to the following facts, with reference to the studies of 

 American prehistoric antiquity. The stone sculp- 

 tures, first discovered by Dr. Habel and described in 

 the Smithsonian contributions to knowledge, have 

 been removed from Santa Lucia Cozumelhualpa, near 

 Guatemala, to the Royal museum of Berlin. Prof. 

 Adolph Bastian, director of the museum, has pub- 

 lished a description of them in a quarto of thirty pages, 

 with three full-page lithographic plates. Within the 

 last year or two. Prof. Leon de Rosny has visited 

 Madrid, Dresden, Basle, and other cities, to study the 

 relics of American civilization. In Madrid he identi- 

 fied the continuation of the ' Manuscript Troano,' 

 which he is now preparing for the press. Count 

 Hyacinthe de Charencey has collected into an octavo 

 volume of a hundred and ninety-five pages his essays 

 on American philology and paleography. Dr. Hamy 

 discusses the cross of Teotihuacan. The Marquis of 

 Nadaillac has brought out a volume on prehistoric 

 America; and Dr. Max Steffen gives us a monograph 

 on the agriculture of the ancient American civilized 

 peoples, — the Aztecs, Mayas, Chibchas, and the Qui- 

 chuas. The full titles of these works are given in the 

 paper cited. — j. w. P. [681 



The Me:xican national museum. — It may not 



be known to all the readers of Science that the land 

 of the Aztecs is no longer open to the indiscriminate 

 plunder of relic-hunters. There is at the national 

 capital a museum, rich especially in relics of ancient 

 Mexican history. A quarterly report is issued, called 

 Anales del museo nacional de Mexico, now in its third 

 year, which is liberally circulated to libraries through- 

 out the United States. Much of the space in this 

 publication is devoted to archeology and decipher- 

 ment of ancient inscriptions. The principal con- 

 tributors are J. Sanchez, Gumesindo Mendoza, Orozco 

 y Berra, and Sr. d. Jcazbalceta and Alfredo Chavero. 

 Seflor Chavero has for a long time been jirosecuting 

 his studies upon the ancient Mexican calendar; and 

 Seiior Mendoza has collected a large number of Na- 

 liua myths, which he is giving to the world. The 

 anales is printed by Ignacio Escalante, No. 1, Bajos 

 de San Agustin, Mexico. — j. w. p. [682 



Anthropology of France. — The study of the 

 natural history of man is very similar to the science 

 of geology. It is possible to select a certain epoch, — 

 say, the glacial, — and trace over all the earth the evi- 

 dences of its extent. We may seek to comprehend the 

 succession of all the epochs throughout our jalanet; 

 or, selecting a particular locality, tlie specialist may 

 study minutely the exact order in which the various 

 sti'ata have manifested themselves there. The anthro- 

 pologist now traces up the wanderings of the Celtic 

 stock, now seeks to uni'avel the mystery of races, 

 and finally, circumscribing his search to his own land, 

 inquires liow various stocks of men have succeeded 

 one another in its borders. Such a work has M. 

 Gustave Lagneau done for France. Various tenta- 

 tive efforts were made, and their results published in 

 current French scientific journals. Finally his per- 

 fected labors found permanent utterance in the Dic- 

 tionnaire encyclopedique des sciences medicales, under 

 the title Anthropolor/ie de la France ; and this has 

 been separately printed by G. Masson, Paris. The 

 subject is treated under two forms: 1. Ethnologic 

 analytique, ou fitude sp^ciale de chacune des races 

 ayant concouru a la formation de la population de la 

 France; 2. Ethnologie synth^tique, ou ifitude giSn^rale 



de I'ensemble de la population de la France consider^e 

 dans sa complexity ethnique. — j. w. P. [683 



The Indian-office reporb. — In addition to the 

 mere detail of annuities and reservations, the report 

 of the commissioner of Indian affairs is becoming 

 more and more useful to the anthropologist. The 

 volume for 1882 is, in this respect, the most valuable 

 that has appeared. The report proper, filling eighty- 

 two pages, covers the whole ground of administration, 

 draws attention to abuses, and suggests important 

 reforms. This is followed by a hundred and ninety 

 pages of finely printed digests of correspondence with 

 agents. By carefully running over these letters, one 

 gets here and there some precious bits of information 

 gathered by witnesses on the spot. Indian legisla- 

 tion, government liabilities, directory of agencies, the 

 disbursement of funds, executive orders, catalogues 

 of tribes and reservations, — are all minutely and in- 

 telligibly set forth. The report on education includes 

 school population, number and accommodations of 

 boarding and day schools, attendance, cost, native and 

 white teachers, results in the ninnber who can read, 

 and in the acres ploughed, produce raised, and stock 

 owned. The industries taught in each boarding- 

 school are given in each case. 



Whole number of Indians 259,632 



School population of uncivilized 34,662 



Boarding-schools for uncivilized 73 



Day-schools " " 105 



Boarding-school accommodations of uncivilized . 4,903 



Day-school " " " . 5,299 



Average attendance 5,569 



Cost to government and religious societies . . . $355,102 



Cost of Carlisle, Hampton, and Forest Grove . . $141,276 



Number who can read 14,532 



Bushels of corn raised . . . . ' 12,713 



" " vegetables raised 17,200 



School population of five civilized tribes .... 9,315 



Boarding-schools 14 



Diiy-schools 199 



Boarding- and day-school accommodations . . , 8,528 



Pupils in boarding-schools 1,043 



" " day-schools 4,696 



Cost to the five nations $151,960 



" " religious societies $8,089 



Number who can read 29,600 



A great variety of information respecting population, 

 industries, subsistence, vital and criminal statistics, 

 completes the volume. — J. w. P. [684 



Krao, the human nondescript at the West- 

 minster aquarium. — Her appearance and mental 

 condition, and that of her father, are described by A. 

 E. Keane, who holds, that, should the statement in 

 regard to the latter prove true, it would appear that 

 a hairy and straight-eyed race, kindred to the Ainos of 

 Japan, exists in Farther India. — (Nature, xxvii. 

 246. ) F. w. T. [685 



The Wyoming historical society. — Publication 

 No. 4, of the Wyoming historical and geological so- 

 ciety, contains an illustrated description of the finer 

 specimens of Indian earthenware pots in the society's 

 collection. The vessels are of the wide-mouthed va- 

 riety, like the old dinner-pots, and are equal to any 

 of the same class found in the West. — j. w. P. [686 



EGYPTOLOGY. 



Pithom - Succoth. — The explorations at Tell-el- 

 Maschuta, carried on under the direction of the 

 eminent Egyptologist, Naville, are yielding further 

 fruit. A statuette of red granite, 6.5 cm. in height, 

 with inscriptions, contains " the name Pithom (Pa- 

 tum) three times in a form varied from that first 

 found ; the name of the god Turn, in Pa-tum, being 

 written ideographically." — "The back bears a lau- 

 datory inscription, saying how well this functionary 



