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lurgy in the Kasai'; (&) 'The Pygmies and the 

 Anthropoid Apes'; (c) 'Phallic Influence in 

 Bantu Art and Mythology.' 



Col. Paul Beckwith: 'The French-Egyptian 

 Medal in Commemoration of the Savants who ac- 

 companied General Bonaparte into Egypt.' 



Db. Alton H. Thompson: 'The Ethnology of 

 the Teeth.' 



De. Cybtjs Thomas : ' Some Suggestions in re- 

 gard to Primary Indian Migrations in North 

 America.' 



Db. Samuel S. Laws: (a) 'The Physiology of 

 Second Sight ' ; ( 6 ) 'A Main Factor in remedying 

 Deafness'; (c) 'The True Object of Vision.' 



George Grant MacCurdt, 



Secretary 

 Yale Unitersitt 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 



The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays. 



By the late Lt.-Gen. A. Lane Fox Pitt- 



EiVERS, D.C.L., r.E.S., F.S.A. Edited by 



J. L. Myres, M.A., Student in Christ 



Church, Oxford; with an introduction by 



Henry Balfour, M.A., Eellow of Exeter 



College, Oxford, Curator of the Pitt-Eivers 



Museum. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1906. 



Pp. 232 ; 21 pis. 8vo. 7s 6d net. 



Here you have together, in attractive form, 



the principal writings of one of the pioneers 



in culture-history, or the story of mankind 



recorded in the works of their hands. The 



volume includes: Principles of Classification 



(1874), On the Evolution of Culture (1875), 



Primitive "Warfare (1867, 1868, 1869), three 



chapters. Early Modes of Navigation. 



Two loving disciples have prepared the vol- 

 ume and written the introduction. Precise 

 references have been identified and given in 

 full, and obvious errors in the test have been 

 either amended or corrected in a foot-note. 

 The volume was prepared to supply the needs 

 of candidates for the Oxford diploma in an- 

 thropology and of the numerous visitors to the 

 Pitt-Rivers Museum, in Oxford; but every 

 student of culture will feel happier with a 

 copy at hand. 



Colonel Pox's text was that in the arts and 

 customs of the still living savage and barbaric 

 peoples there are reflected to a considerable 

 extent the various strata of human culture in 



the past, and that it is possible to reconstruct 

 in some degree the life and industries of man 

 in prehistoric times by a study of existing 

 races in corresponding stages of civilization. 

 Professor BaKour wisely says : " The fact of 

 our not agreeing with aU his details in no way 

 invalidates the general principles which he 

 urged." In all our best museimis the exhibits 

 that attract the most people and interest those 

 in every walk of life are the sjmoptic series, 

 easily leading the mind from a shadow in the 

 snow to the chronometer; from a bow and 

 arrow to the latest carbine; from Triton's 

 horn to the cornet; from a woman's back to 

 the express train; from a raft to the gorgeous 

 ocean steamer. 0. T. M. 



March 30, 1907 



Organische Zweclcmdssigheit, Entwichlung 

 und Vererhung vom Standpunht der Phys- 

 iologie. Von Dr. Paul Jensen, Professor 

 an der Universitat Br^lau. Pp. 251. Jena, 

 G. Fischer. 



Dr. Jensen has attempted to state some of 

 the general and fundamental problems of 

 biology — adaptiveness, heredity, evolution, 

 variation, selection, and the like — from a 

 purely physiological standpoint, and to indi- 

 cate the lines along which physiology would 

 lead us to look for a solution. The result 

 will be found most interesting and suggestive 

 to those working along these lines. The 

 processes taking place in development, indi- 

 vidual as well as racial, are occurring in the 

 same complex of material as are the processes 

 of (for example) metabolism. They are as 

 much a part of a proper science of physiology 

 as are the latter. Further, there seems to be 

 no reason why physiology should proceed on 

 essentially different principles in different 

 cases in the investigation of the various 

 processes with which it deals. This con- 

 sideration leads the author to a criticism of 

 certain theories which do appear to be based 

 on principles fundamentally different from 

 those which have been found valuable in 

 unravelling the processes commonly assigned 

 to physiology. On the one hand all doctrines 

 which attribute the characteristics of organ- 

 isms, hereditary and otherwise, to certain 



