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tion concerning the government and finances of the museum, we have the 
report of the curator, Mr. F. W. Putnam, upon the condition of the 
specimens and the additions. The most valuable gifts are from Mr. 
Alexander Agassiz and Mr. Paul Schumaker. Other contributors of 
objects and books are mentioned. The curator acknowledges the gratu- 
itous services of Messrs. Lucien Carr and Ernest Jackson. The notice- 
able feature of the report is the photographs of Mr. Peabody and Dr. 
effries Wyman, and the index to all the Reports to date. All of them 
are to be bound into a Centennial volume, in conipliance with a call 
made “upon the public institutions and societies in the United States to 
furnish some account of their rise and progress,” ete. ; 
In Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, April, 1876, pages 401-438, 
V. Derrécagaix gives an extended notice of the Basques, which race 
the ethnologists of Europe regard as a connecting link between the pre- 
historic races and the earliest historic tribes of France and Spain. 
In the Comptes rendus de lV Académie des Sciences de U Institut de 
Bologne, J. Capellini publishes an article upon pliocene man in Tus¢any. 
After an extended argument to identify the glacial epoch with the plio- 
cene in Tuscany, the learned author finds the evidence of man’s existence 
in the occurrence of notches and gashes in dorsal apophyses of the 
Balenotus, a species of cetacean, that he supposes to have been made by 
uman agency, and with stone implements. P. Cazalis de Fondouce 
replies, in Matériaux, that while there seems to be evidence of the exist- 
ence of a tertiary man; M. Capellini’s proof is not conclusive, for the in- 
cisions in the Halitherium of Pouance are known to have been made by 
the Carcharodon megalodon, the dents and gashes in the bones found in 
the marl beds of Liognac were made by the Sargus serratus, and those 
iu the bones from Saint-Prest by the Canodontes Boinsvilletti. 
Number 5 of Matériaux comes to us with an interesting array of 
matter. The following are the principal articles: History of Quaternary 
Mammals in France, by J. Gaudry. The Discovery of a Human Sta- 
Hon of the Neolithic Period, near Belfort, by Charles Grad, Flint Ar- 
row-Points from the Gironde in the Collection of M. L. Lalanne, by E. 
mission charged to examine into the proposal to publish in an 
abridged form all the information that has appeared in foreign literature, 
Specially English, on Upper Asia. The committee, while heartily ap- 
Proving of the idea, has suggested that a catalogue of books and articles 
"lating to that region and its inhabitants should be published in the 
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