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ANTHROPOLOGY. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL Nores. — Under the editorial supervision of Mr. 
Edward Arber, of London, a volume of great interest will appear during 
the coming season. It will be a reprint of the first three English books 
on America, The first was printed at Antwerp by John of Doesborowe, 
about 1511, a book “of the new Landes, and of the People founde by 
the Messengers of the Kynge of Portyngale, named Emanuel.” The 
second is a translated extract from the Cosmographia (1540) of Se- 
bastian Muenster,.professor of Hebrew at the University of Basle, en- 
titled A Treatese of the Newe India, with other new founde Landes and 
Islandes as well Eastwarde as Westwarde, as they are known and founde 
in these our days, etc. The third is a collection of the first English 
Voyages, Traffics, and Discoveries, containing Peter Martyr's Decades, 
and other interesting articles. 
The attention of anthropologists is most earnestly directed to the eir- 
cular letter of the anthropological subsection of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, inviting them to attend the meet- 
ing to be held in Buffalo the present year, prepared to read papers on 
interesting subjects. 
Messrs. Macmillan have in press a volume by Mr. E. G. Squier, 
being “ Incidents of Travel and Explorations in the Land of the Incas.” 
Correspondenz-Blatt of January lst has a supplement containing à 
catalogue of all the public and private collections of ethnological, anthro- 
pological, and prehistorical collections in Germany. The Smithsonian 
Institution commenced such a catalogue for all branches of scientific 
study within the United States, some time ago, and many hundreds have 
responded to their circular. 
The fourth number of Revue d’ Anthropologie comes to us with an un- 
usually interesting collection of articles. The principal ones are Re- 
cherches sur Indice Orbetaire, by Paul Broca; Ethnogénie des Popula- 
tions du Nord-Ouest de la France, by Gustave Lagneau ; Origine du 
Bronze, by G. de Mortillet; Le Feu chez les Peuplades primitives, by 
Mme. Clemence Royer. i i 
The contents of the twelfth number of Matériaux pour I’Histoire 
primitive et naturelle de VHomme are of a more special character. 
much interest. 
_ A very interesting paper was read before the British Scandin 
Society, January 18th, on some recent discoveries of tumuli belonging 
to the viking age. Among other objects a boat eighty feet long 
eighteen wide, with high prow, is like some now used in certain parts 
the Norwegian coast. : 
Lieutenant-Colonel Playfair reports the discovery at Aurès, in Algiers, 
of Roman ruins of the most magnificent character. The inhabitants bear 
‘unmistakable testimony to the classic origin of their features, languag® 
avian 
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The drawing of the royal tomb of Koaloba, in the Crimea, possesses i 
