180 General Notes. [ March, 
conclusion of the paper on the Fossil Man from La Madelaine and 
Laugerie Basse; Notes on the Caribou of Newfoundland, by T. G. B. 
Lloyd; Notes on Ovibos moschatus, by E. Lartet ; supplemental notes, 
and a series of indexes to the whole work. 
In the third part of Revue d’ Anthropologie, Dr. Berenger Feraud 
has a long and deeply interesting article upon the Oulofs of the Coast of 
Senegambia, embracing descriptions of their physical characters, man- 
ners, customs, intellectual characters, childrén, habitations, nourishment, 
language, the family and social organization. 
Before the British Anthropological Institute, November 9th, Mr. Fran- 
cis Galton read two papers: one on Heredity in Twins, the other on 
A Theory of Heredity. It appears that twin-bearing is hereditary, 
and that it descends through males and females about equally. In the 
latter paper it is argued that the germs which were selected for develop- 
ment into the bodily structure had a very small influence from a heredi- 
tary point of view, while it was those germs which were never developed 
but which remained latent, that were the real origin of the sexual ele- 
ment. This accounts for much that Mr. Darwin’s theory of pangenesis 
over-accounted for, and is free from objections raised against the latter. 
Dr. Robert Brown has translated Dr. Rink’s celebrated work entitled 
Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, with a Sketch of their Habits, Re- 
ligion, Language, and other Peculiarities. Blackwood and Sons, of 
Edinburgh, are the publishers. , 
At the session of the Anthropological Section of the French Associ- 
ation, August 25th, M. de Mortillet advanced a new theory of the ori- 
gin of bronze. After reviewing the countries where copper and tin are 
found, he concludes that bronze implements and weapons took their 
origin in India. He bases his conclusions mainly upon the following 
facts: Mysorine, the most reducible ore of copper, is found principally in 
India. In the peninsula of Malacca, and notably in the Isle of Banca. 
are found the richest deposits of tin in the world. ‘The shortness of the 
handles of bronze weapons is paralleled by those of India at the pres- 
ent time. Finally, in the lacustrian deposits of the bronze age of Switz: 
erland and Savoy, strange-shaped objects are found which have their 
analogues only in India. As an indication of the origin of the white- 
skinned races of Northern Africa, we find many of the same forms pre- 
vailing amongst them. 
Among the exceedingly interesting objects brought from the Rio San 
Juan by Professor Hayden’s party is a Peruvian double bottle or jah, — 
similar in every respect to many of the whistling bottles of the last- — 
named country. Whether this is an accidental resemblance or an arti 
of commerce I am unable to say. o 
The Rev. M. Eells has sent to the Smithsonian Institution a mant- — 
script of one hundred and sixty pages, containing a full account of the 
Twamish Indians of Hood’s Canal, Puget’s Sound. Nothing in conne™ — 
