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curious iu formation gathered from various independent sources, and 

 from ancient and modern writers on the subject. Important 

 statistical notes are compared and discussed in all their bearings, and 

 partial deductions of former writers, are corrected by his own more 

 enlarged experience. The conclusions he arrives at have already- 

 been s«t forth in the Types of Mankind, and need not now be 

 discussed. The facts of such an observer are valuable contributions 

 to science, independently of all deductions which to him may 

 seem legitimately to flow from them. These are reiterated here in 

 all their comprehensiveness, as conclusions drawn from " the long 

 chain of facts" presented by himself and his collaborateurs in the 

 production of the volume under review. 



Such is a hasty glance at some of the varied contents of this new 

 contribution to the science of Ethnology, from what may be specially 

 designated as the American point of view. We have had to choose 

 between a hasty notice of it immediately on its appearance, or a more 

 careful study and discussion of its contents in a future number, 

 when we must have followed in the wake of other reviewers, and 

 referred to a book probably already in the readers hands. We have 

 preferred the former alternative ; as our hasty notice may serve to 

 direct the attention of some of our readers to it at an early date, 

 and ao afford them the opportunity of making for themselves such 

 a careful and leisurely study of the varied contributions of its 

 authors, as their merits deserve. We would only add, that the style 

 in which the work has been produced, and the price at which it has 

 been furnished to subscribers, amply justify the statement of the 

 publishers, that monetary considerations have exercised little in- 

 fluence on the pains bestowed by the authors on their various 



contributions. 



D. W. 



SCIENTIFIC AND LITERACY NOTES. 



GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



OiLCAEBOUB CONCRETIONS FROM BUCKINGHAM, ENGLAND. 



Dr. G. D. Gibh, of Guildford Street, London, has kindly forwarded to the 

 Canadian Institute, a large collection of the peculiar concretionary bodies lately 

 figured and described in the Illustrated London News, under the term of " Fossi 

 Marine Vegetable Remains." These bodies occur in large numbers in a deposit of 

 •'brick clay" at Tingewick, near Buckingham, and are supposed to have been 



