748 General Notes. [ December, 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.— The Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Davenport, Iowa, has issued its first volume of proceedings, covering 
the time from 1867 to 1876. The volume is well illustrated by plates, 
chiefly archeological, and is certainly a praiseworthy effort by an infant 
society. There are a large number of archzxological papers reported, re- 
lating principally to mound explorations in the State and in Whiteside 
County, Illinois. The papers by Dr. Farquharson are of extraordinary 
merit, especially in those portions which relate to the copper axes and to 
the cloth wrappings found on many of them. 
The third number of the Revue d’ Anthropologie has appeared, rich in 
original matter and in reviews of progress. The first article is by M. 
Tissot, upon the megalithic monuments and the blonde populations of 
Morocco. The monuments are precisely similar in nature to those found 
in Western Europe and in Algiers, consisting of dolmens, tumuli, menhirs, 
and cromlechs. The inhabitants of Morocco consist of: (1) two races 
of European physiognomy, the one blonde, the other brown, correspond- 
ing to the two races, blonde and brown, found in France (Libyans par 
excellence) ; (2) a brown race with southern characteristics, but still 
European (Getules ?); (3) a brown race of Oriental origin (Numid- 
ians?) ; (4) a brown race, probably Berber, but crossed with the black 
race (Melano-Getules). 
M. Broca, the editor, follows up the paper of M. Tissot with a 
learned discussion of the relation of these megalithic remains to those 
of Algiers, particularly as settling the mooted questica of a migration 
into Africa through Sicily and Sardinia rather thar across the Straits of 
Gibraltar. M. Broca in referring to the blonde Berbers combats the 
theory of Shaw that they are the descendants of the Vandals of Gen- 
seric. From allusions in classic authors we are led to infer the presence 
of this blonde element for at least fifteen centuries B. c. The works of 
M. de Löher are referred to, and an address of congratulation to Lan 
quoted as an example of the slight evidence which will suffice a philol- 
ogist when his national preferences overrule his judgment. 
The second article is an account of an elaborate study upon Nether- 
land crania, by Dr. Sasse. The next article is by Mme. Clemence Roye / 
a very diligent student but not always a safe guide, upon the origin of 
funeral rites and their manifestations in prehistoric times. It is an at- 
tempt to apply the evolution hypothesis to the subject of sepulture. 
The instinctive veneration for the dead is traced primarily to the nam 
ral abhorrence of dead bodies inspired in most animals by their poise? 
their infection, and the abundance of stinging flies, etc., which gat g 
around them. This has led some apes to cover their dead with boughs 
and sticks. From these the modes of burial naturally follow. The first 
great class is where the corpse is not touched, including absolute aban- 
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