No. 394.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 831 
This volume of over 600 pages is illustrated by a large number 
of portrait types and original maps that set a new standard for an- 
thropological publications. It is accompanied by A Selected Bibliog- 
raphy of the Anthropology and Ethnology of Europe, published by the 
Trustees of the Boston Public Library. Nearly two thousand titles 
are included in the list. FRANK RUSSELL 
Anthropological Notes. —In the July Anthropologist O. T. Mason 
presents a report of the discussion, or rather a summary of it by 
Professor McGee, by the Anthropological Society of Washington on 
the adoption of the term “ Amerind”’ to designate the aboriginal 
tribes of the American hemisphere. The word is an arbitrary com- 
pound of the leading syllables of the phrase “ American Indian.” 
It is brief, euphonious, and lends itself readily to adjectival and ad- 
verbial terminations. The adoption of the term is to be heartily 
commended. In the same number of the Anthropologist Dr. Ales 
Hrdlicka describes and figures “a new joint formation,” apparently 
a unique case of the humerus sending out a new process to form a 
joint with the dislocated head of the radius. The bones are from an 
Amerindian burial place in Kentucky. 
An anomalous skeleton is described by Hrdlicka in Vol. XII, pp. 
81-107, of the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 
The skeleton was found in the vicinity of the city of Mexico. It 
has 13 pairs of ribs, and also presents the anomaly known as a 
“ bicipital rib.” The sternum is completely ossified — an excep- 
tional condition among Amerindian skeletons, the author states — 
and its body is perforated by two large foramina. The long bones 
of the arm exhibit in an accentuated degree the proportions seen in 
the negro. The femora are platymeric, said to be a frequent type 
among Amerindians. The tibie are proportionally long and their 
heads are inclined backward. A list of titles of works relating to 
bicipital, supernumerary, and cervical ribs is given. 
In a privately printed booklet of 30 pages W. H. Furness con- 
tributes a. sketch of the “Folk-lore of Borneo.” A charming 
account is given of the Kayan and Dayak origin myths ; the native 
conception of the after-life ; the magic power of names ; the custom 
of head-hunting, etc. Five excellent illustrations of the natives and 
their surroundings are furnished. 
