| 1876.] Geography and Exploration. 305 
and customs. Many remains of Roman edifices, some of them crowned 
with Byzantine structures, were found. The full account is in a Blue 
Book, just issued, of consular reports to the Foreign Office, London. 
Dr. Hooker is in receipt of a private letter describing the warlike 
habits of the Papuans. No man leaves his dwelling for his bit of culti- 
vated land, even, without his powerful bamboo bow and a few deadly poi- 
soned arrows. These are pointed and barbed with human bone, brought 
to almost needle-like sharpness, and most carefully and neatly finished. 
They are rindi by being plunged in a human corpse for several days. 
+O. T. Mas 
GEOLOGY AND PALMONTOLOGY. 
Gigantic Mammars or tHe Rocky Mounrarns. — We have al- 
ee (page 182) called attention to Professor Marsh’s discovery of the 
remarkably small brain of the Dinocerata, a group of large tertiary 
sga eS OF ARONNE ee 
e view; one twelfth natural 
mammals of the West. In the American Journal of Science and Arts 
for April, he discusses the principal characters of the Brontotheride, 
(Fig. 20.) OUTLINE OF SKULL AND BRAIN egth OF BRONTOTHERIUM INGENS. 
natural size 
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