558 General Notes. [September, 
fanticide, the fewer wars, the better treatment of women, the care of. 
children, the sick, and the aged, and a more steady supply of food. Upon 
these topics the author has collected a great many statistics. 
The second number of Broca’s Revue d’ Anthropologie for 1876 is at 
hand, and contains the following matter: Upon Cranio-Cerebral Topog- 
raphy, Broca; Banton or Abanton, Hovelacque ; Vanikoro and its In- 
habitants, Lesson ; The Tumulus of Eshoj, Denmark, Engelhardt; Revue 
critique, Revue préhistorique, Revue des Livres, Revue des Journaux, 
Extraits et Analyses, Miscellanea, Nécrologie, Bulletin bibliographique. 
Nearly one half the number is taken up with the treatment of cranio- 
cerebral topography by M. Broca, and the review of the most eminent 
works which have been published upon the subject by Gratiolet, Arnold, 
Broca, Bischoff, Heftler, Turner, Féré, Ecker, and Landzert. 
Das Ausland, under the editorship of F. von Hellwald, always con- 
tains some interesting anthropological description or discussion. In the 
number for May 29th is a review of Rutimeyer’s Variation of the Fauna 
of Switzerland since the Existence of Man there, also a résumé of the 
Indian Tribes of the United States made from Authentic Sources, by 
Adolph Hunnius; in the number for June 5th, Dr. Bela Weisz discusses 
(Economics; in that for June 12th, the Earliest Use of Potstone (Lapis 
ollaris), and in that for June 19th, the Origin of Alphabetic Writings 
the Numerical Relations of the Sexes, and Manners and Customs 10 
Servia are discussed. — O. T. Mason. 
OCCURRENCE OF THE Patoo-PaToo IN NORTH AMERICA. — An in- 
teresting example of the independent production of a well-known foreign 
form of weapons may be seen in the Michigan exhibit of stone and cop- 
per implements at the Philadelphia Exposition, where there is a single 
specimen of steatite patoo-patoo, such as is common in New Zealand. 
These weapons are described by Tylor (Early History of Mankind, p- 
204, London, 1870) as“ an edged club of bone or stone, which has 
been compared to a beaver’s tail, or is still more like a soda-water bottle 
with the bulb flattened, and it is a very effective weapon in a hand-to- 
hand fight, being so sharp that a man’s skull may be split at one biar 
with it.” This description will strictly apply to the Michigan specimen, 
with the one exception of not being drilled at the smaller end, for 8 
wrist cord. This weapon measures sixteen and one fourth inches 2 
length. It is two and five eighths inches wide for eleven inches, when 
it tapers to one and one half inches, but again widens to two inches ~ 
the end, thus forming a terminal knob or button, about which a wrist 
cord could be securely fastened. The edges are beautifully wrought and 
are as sharp now as the general find of polished stone axes aP -e 
E. B. Tylor, whom we have already quoted, mentions the occurrence 0 
such a specimen, “ of dark brown jasper,” from Peru, and also one, “of # 
greenish amphibolic stone,” from Cuzco, which is figured by Rivero 
Tschudi. Of the vast numbers of relics of American aborigines 
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