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g. It is by the frontal breadth and in a lesser degree by the 
maximum transverse breadth that the female skull approaches most 
closely to the male; it is farthest from the male skull in the basal 
region and in the face; the forehead is larger relatively to the face 
than among the male skulls. 
“In conclusion, the above researches, incomplete as they are, 
demonstrate that the female skull has, in relation to the male cra- 
nium, a frontal type, as has been shown already by M. Manouvrier, 
and that the cranial capacity is relatively greater." It is to be 
remembered that these results were obtained from the study of a 
brachycephalic series of crania. 
Notes. — Dr. R. Verneau (Z Anthropologie, Tome IX, p. 2) figures 
and describes a new instrument for measuring cranial angles and 
diameters. The advantages claimed by the inventor for this new 
apparatus are that: 
i. It renders measurements comparable by always securing the 
parts in the same relative position. 
2. The projections can be quickly measured which heretofore 
have been obtained by geometric drawings. 
3. Both vertical and horizontal projections can be taken at the 
same time. 
4. All the dihedral angles relating to one horizontal plane can be 
directly measured. 
We have received reprints of two papers by Mr. James Mooney 
of interest to ethnologists and students of American history. “ The 
Cherokee River Cult" was published in the Journal of American 
Folklore, Vol. XIII. The peculiarly sacred character of the flowing 
stream to the primitive mind is explained, and a number of formulas 
used by the native priests when invoking the aid of the river-god are 
translated. 
Reprinted from the American Anthropologist of July, 1899, is an 
account of “The End of the Natchez.” Mr. Mooney devotes him- 
self especially to the history of the tribe subsequent to the year 
1730, when they were broken and dispersed by the French. Perhaps 
twenty individuals belonging to this tribe survive, all living in the 
Indian Territory with the Creeks. 
In the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. XIII, 
1900, is published a paper by Mr. Lucien Carr upon “The Mas- 
coutins.” The history and even the identity of this tribe has been 
