428 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. — [VOL. XXXIII. 
In an able review of “Notes of the Folk-Lore of the Fjort” 
(R. E. Dennett), Mr. Newell, in the October-December number of 
the American Folk-Lore Journal, calls attention to the fact that in the 
publication of this work the Folk-Lore Society places itself on record 
as accepting his definition of the scope and meaning of folk-lore. It 
is not to be confined to survivals of custom and belief among enlight- 
ened races, but is to include all oral tradition of all periods and all 
cultures. 
In the Ann. de la Soc. Esp. His. Nat., ser. 2, tome vi, is published 
a bibliography of anthropological literature relating to the Spanish 
peninsula for the years 1896 and 1897. Sr. Hoyos has given 113 
titles for the former year and 127 for the latter. They are classified 
under the following heads: general anthropology, ethnography, and 
sociology, linguistics, and prehistoric and protohistoric archeology. 
They are further classified according to the provinces to which they 
refer. 
Marquis de Nadaillac, in the November-December number of 
L’ Anthropologie, gives an extended review of an “Introduction to 
the Study of North American Archeology” by Cyrus Thomas. His 
distinguished investigations in this field entitle him to speak with 
authority concerning all that pertains to prehistoric America. He 
justly observes that the subject is one of great interest because of 
the obscurity enveloping it, and, in conclusion, “ the past of America 
is still an unfathomable mystery.” 
In the Smithsonian Report for 1896 will be found a description of 
the “ Biblical Antiquities ” that were exhibited at the Atlanta Exposi- 
tion in 1895. This illustrated paper is of special interest to students 
of “ Ceremonialism.” F.R. 
GENERAL BIOLOGY. 
Professor Ewart’s Mares.'— Lord Morton’s mare has played its 
part in the literature of speculative biology for nearly eighty years, and 
deserves a rest. It is most likely to get it through the researches of 
Professor Ewart, who is conducting telegony experiments on a large 
scale at his farm at Penycuik [pronounced fennycook]. Since the 
1 Ewart, J.C. The Penycuik Experiments. London, Adam and Charles Black,. 
1899. xciii + 177 pp., 46 figs. 
