366 General Notes. [June, 
such as his isolation, being “ cut off time out of mind from the rest of 
the world,” and the fact that “the remains of primeval art and the im- 
press he made upon nature bespeak for man a residence in the New 
World coeval with the most distant events of history,” the author, if 
we understand him aright, adopts the theory of the unity of. the human 
race. If by unity is meant a common origin from one creative centre, 
and that a creation de novo, rather than derivative, then we dissent. In- 
deed, reasons are given in every chapter of the work, for believing that 
the Red race of America never had any intercourse, or bore any relation- 
ship to other peoples of any portion of the globe, unless we trace man 
back so far into time past that we see him the occupant of continents 
not now existing as such. A word, and we have done. On page 39, 
Dr. Brinton states that “not a tittle of evidence is on record to carry 
the age of man in America beyond the present geological epoch.” In 
this convection we would call attention to the remark of the late Pro- 
fessor Wyman, on page 45 of Fresh-Water Shell-Mounds of Florida, 
as follows: “ The ancient remains found in California . . . by Professor 
pl 
lected by Professor Whitney, but not yet published, substantiates the 
opinion given above with regard to age.” We have, therefore, some- 
thing more than a tittle of such evidence, and we are carried back to @ 
time when man in America was even too primitive to originate those 
curious myths which afterwards became so marked a feature of their 
lives, and which Dr. Brinton has most successfully interpreted. 
Recent Booxs ann Pampuiers. — Prehistoric Man. Researches into the Origin 
of Civilization in the Old and New Worlds. By Daniel Wilson. Third edition, 
revised and enlarged, with illustrations. 2 vols. London: Macmillan & Co. 1876. 
8vo, pp. 399, 401. i 
List of Skeletons and Crania in the Section of Comparative Anatomy of the United 
States Army Medical Museum, for Use during the International Exhibition of 1876, 
in Connection with the Representatives of the Medical Department, United States 
Army. Washington, D.C. 1876. 8vo, pp. 52. 
Al count of the Worcester Lyceum and Natural History Association. By 
Nathaniel Paine. Prepared for the International Exhibition, 1876. Worcester. 1876. 
8vo, pp. 13. 
On some Characters of the Genus Coryphodon Owen. By Professor O. C. Marsh. 
8vo, pp. 4. (From the American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. xi., May, 1876.) 
GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY. 
ARRESTED GROWTH AND PERSISTENCE OF BARBULA RURALIS: — 
During a visit made to Ile Royale, Michigan (Lake Superior), in the 
summer of 1874, my attention was called to a curious example of the 
1 Conducted by Pror. G. L. GOODALE. 
