Miscellaneous Intelligence. 559 



Jahre 1861-1880 selbstandig erschienen sind ; bearbeitet von 

 Dr. O. Taschenberg. Neunzehnte Lieferung. Leipzig, 1913 

 ( Wilhelm Engelraann). — This nineteenth part of the comprehen- 

 sive work edited by Dr. Taschenberg (earlier noticed in this 

 Journal) includes signatures 721-744 and pages 5801-5992. It 

 completes the first half of volume seven of the entire work and is 

 largely devoted to the titles of works dealing with natural his- 

 tory travels in different lands. 



15. Atlas de la JRepublica de Chile. — A valuable map of Chile 

 with the above title on its cover, but named " Mapa escolar de 

 Chile " on one of its pages, has been constructed under the direc- 

 tion of Chief Engineer Jose G. del Fuenzalida and published on 

 the scale of 1:1,500,000 in a series of nine sheets in ten 

 or more tints (six shades for land altitudes, and five for sea 

 depths) by Justus Perthes of Gotha in 1911. A series of twelve 

 cross profiles on a horizontal scale of 1:1,000,000, with tenfold 

 vertical exaggeration, give effective presentation of the relief. 

 The contrasts between the desert basins of the north, the populous 

 agricultural valleys of the middle section, and the glaciers, lakes 

 and fiords of the far south are well brought forth. w. m. d. 



16. The Prehistoric Period in South Africa; by J. P. John- 

 son. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with a Map. 115 

 pages. London and New York, 1912 (Longmans, Green and 

 Co.). — In his preface the author frankly acknowledges that the 

 new edition contains very little new material except the chapter 

 on Coast Middens, made possible by Dr. Peringuey's publication 

 of specimens in the Capetown Museum ; and Appendix I : The 

 Sequence of Stone Implements in the Lower Thames Valley, by 

 A. S. Kennard. For a review of the first edition, the reader is 

 referred to this Journal, xxxi, 578, 1911. 



Middens occur from Walfisch Bay on the west to Delagoa on 

 the east. Small stone flakes like those from the inland sites are 

 found in the middens ; finished implements are rare. The debris 

 from the caves along the coast is similar to that from the middens. 

 Burials in the middens and caves are of the same type : Doubled 

 in such a manner as to bring the hands and knees near the chin. 

 Ostrich eggshell beads are the usual accompaniment and fiat stones 

 lie directly on the skeletons. In the Coldstream Cave three 

 stones were found on which drawings were executed in black. 

 On one of these the four drawings represent human beings with 

 prominent calves and buttocks. As for the sequence of stone 

 implements in the lower Thames valley, Mr. Kennard believes in 

 the human origin of some of the eoliths from the Kent Plateau. 

 The later horizons include : Proto-Chellean, Chellean, Acheulian, 

 Mousterian, (?) Magdalenian, neolithic, bronze, and iron. 



G. G. MACCTJRDY. 



17. The Origin and Nature of Life ; by Benjamin Moore. 

 Pp. 256, 12mo. New York (Henry Holt and Company) and 

 London (Williams and Norgate). Home University Library of 

 Modern Knowledge, No. 63. — The magnitude of the subject and 



