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case parts of more than one skeleton are found. Furthermore, in the 
same mound with the so-called pygmy graves are found long graves in 
which the skeletons of unusually tall men and women lie at full length. 
The International Congress of Americanists will hold its next session 
at Luxemburg, from the 10th to the 13th of September, 1877. They 
have already issued their circular of invitation. 
Mr. Charles M. Wallace contributes to the American Journal of 
Science for March an article in which he claims to have found in the beds of 
brick, clay, and stratified gravels, near Richmond, Va., various hatchet-like, 
disk-like, and spear-shaped palzolithic implements, from four to eight feet 
below the surface. “One of them is somewhat like an implement from 
the Reculver Pits” (Evans, p. 534, N. Y., 1872). The name of Professor 
Baird is used in the article as encouraging the author (he encourages 
every diligent seeker for truth); but I am sure Mr. Wallace does not 
mean to say that Professor Baird endorsed his conclusions as to the nat- 
ure of his finds. Two things are necessary to be done in the case. 
The most scrupulous care is to be exercised in determining exactly all the 
conditions of the find, and the implements must be compared with simi- 
lar ones from other localities by skilled archxologists before any safe 
conclusion can be reached. 
The Paris Anthropological Society has issued separately the cranio- 
logical and craniometrical instructions, prepared by a committee of that 
body. 
Both the January and the February numbers of Matériaux pour l His- 
toire primitive et naturelle de PHomme are full of interesting matter. 
All lovers of archeology should encourage this periodical, whose editors, 
at great personal sacrifice, conduct it solely in the interest of science. 
The Rey. William Houghton read a paper before the Society of Bibli- 
cal Archeology, March 7th, on the Mammalia of the Assyrian Monu- 
ments; Part I., Domestic Mammals. ‘There are three forms of repre- 
sentation: (1) by pictorial or sculptural representations; (2) by de- 
scription ; (3) by picture and description combined. The domestic ani- 
mals known were the ox, sheep, goat, camel, ass, horse, mule, and dog- 
The author promised a subsequent paper on the Wild Animals. 
George Smith writes to the Atheneum of February 12th, “I have 
discovered a Babylonian text giving a remarkable account of the temple 
of Belus at Babylon. It is the first time any detailed description of a 
temple has been found in the cuneiform texts.” 
Mr. E. B. Tylor read before the London Institution, March 23, 1876, 
a paper on the Races of Mankind and Their Civilization. The follow- 
ing works on anthropology have appeared: Hellwald, Culturgeschichte ; 
reviewed by Tylor in Academy, February 26th. Wilson, Prehistorie 
Man, 2 vols., Macmillan. Gill, Myths and Songs of the South Pacific, 
King & Co., London. Koner, Bibliography of Anthropology: Gar- 
land, Atlas der Ethnographie, Leipzig, Brockhaus. 
