_ president. Nine sections were formed and a chair 
the Congress to the question of the discove 
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donment, slight coverings, heaps of stones, tumuli, cave and hut aban- 
donment, etc. The first occurrence of touching the corpse was where 
the instinct of preservation, induced by crowding, overcame the fear of 
the dead, and thus by the transporting of the dead of one cave to the 
side of a dead relative in another, an act of devotion saves the cave 
dwelling to the occupants and originates the whole series of interments 
in which the corpse is moved. The most ingenious application is made 
of these theories to inhumation, abandonment to beasts and birds, throw- 
ing into rivers and into the sea, desiccation and embalming, exposure on 
scaffolds, incineration, etc. An attempt is made in the last chapters to 
The reviews upon anthropological publi 
and craniometric instructions of the Anthropological Socie 
occupying nearly thirty pages of finely printed matter and illustrated 
alone render this 
M. L. Reoult de Neuville. The remainder of the numbe 
with matters purely French. 
rhe Rede Lecture for 1876, The Monumen 
delivered May 26th by Samuel Birch. It is pu 
by Samuel Bagster. 
The third session of the International Congress 
opened at St. Petersburg, Friday, September Ist, wi 
tal History of Egypt, was 
plished in pamphlet form 
of Orientalists was 
The subjects to which the sections were devote 
East and West Siberia. (2.) Middle Asia within Russian boundaries, 
as well as the independent principalities of Western Turkestan. (3.) 
ee as well as the Crimea and other parts of seu Russia 
inhabited by Asiatic peoples. (4 Transcaucasus, 1n¢ sents 
Georgia Sb PRC E.) eR Turkestan, Thibet, ngolia, with Be 
Mantchooria and the Corea, China, and Japan- (6.) India, gener 
Persia, and the Indo-Chinese Archipelago. (7.) Turkey, inclu ee 
Ara bia and Egypt. (8.) Archæology and Numismatics. (9.) The I 
ligious and Philosophical Systems of the Eas 
E ai ‘ f Sectio 
n.de- Romy, tho Pe O E 
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n 5, called the attention of 
e Chinese 
before the time of Columbus. the Advancement of 
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