48 General Notes. — [ January, 
by M. Sars; ed. G. O. Sars. 3. New Norwegian Ce/enterata, 
by Koren and Danielsen. 4. Norwegian Pennatulide, by Koren 
and Danielson. 5. New Bryozoa, by Koren se Danielson. 6. 
Norwegian Gephyrea, by Koren and Danielso new species 
of the genus Pennella, by Koren and Danielsin. 1s Ly. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.! 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—Dr. George A. Otis, the curator 
of the U. S. Army Medical Museum, writes the following with 
1952, inclusive, and comprising skeletons, crania and calvaria of 
American origin, with the exception of fifteen New Zealand cal- 
varia transmitted from the Smithsonian Institution. These speci- 
mens have been carefully prepared, numbered and mounted; the 
-principal measurements, in each case, made and recorded. 
Among the additions to the complete skeletons of American In- 
dians was a series of seven Sioux, exhumed by Assistant Surgeon 
Corbusier; specimens from the shell-heaps of Florida, from Col- 
orado and from Tennessee, of supposed pre-historic date, are of 
especial interest.” The immense amount of work required by 
the Medical History of the War has exhausted all the funds 
appropriated for this institution. But Dr. Otis, with his trained 
assistants, has measured and mounted every important cranium 
which he has received, and has reconstructed from fragments 
many pre-historic skulls, an art in which he is exceedingly skillful. 
As soon as time and funds will allow, the results of these meas- 
urements will be laid before the scientific world. 
The Rev. S. D. Peet, editor of the American Antiquarian, sends 
us his Prospectus, and it gives us great pleasure not only to 
attention to it, but to urge upon all lovers of American archeology 
to make sacrifices to sustain it. Mr. Peet, without State or Gov- 
ernment patronage, has for years given his leisure freely to 
aboriginal history. It is due to him as well as to the subject 
which we love in common, that he be not left alone in the matter. 
The brilliant success achievcd in anthropology in England and 
Germany, but most of all in France, is due mainly to the interest 
awakened by the periodicals devoted solely to this one subject. 
The advantage of a special organ ever disseminating our efforts 
throughout all the periodicals of the country is apparent to all. 
Mr. Peet’s address is at present Unionville, O. 
The New York Herald, of November 5th, contains a review of 
Col. Mallery’s paper on the supposed decrease in the number of 
our aborigines. Having once drawn attention to this paper, our 
space and our duty to the truth will not allow us to refer to it 
again, lest mistaken zeal rob the truth of its reward. Col. Mal- 
Edited by Prof. Or1s T. Mason, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
