50 panes Notes. [Jan uary, 
foremost in encouraging this as it has been with other branches 
of anthropological study. 
The first number of Vol. viii, of the Journal of the Anthro- 
pological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, dated August, is 
an unusually interesting brochure. The paper which will prove 
most interesting to the general student is “ On the coloring mat- 
ter found in human hair,” by H. C. Sorby. The author is begged 
to reconsider his statement that black hair is not made lighter by 
direct sunlight. Our black horses at the South all become a 
rown color in August, and many will recall the foxy red hair 
of the little negroes that greeted the traveler at every wayside 
before the late war. r. W. St. Chad Boscawen makes a com- 
munication upon the Primitive culture of Babylonia, which reviews 
the evolution of the cuneiform writing. Other papers are: 
On the original range of the Papuan and Negrette races, by 
Francis A. Allen; The spread of the Slaves, Part 2, by H.H 
Howorth. | co 
The first and second quarterly parts of Archiv fir Anthropologie 
for 1878, come at the same time. The paper on pre-historic cop- 
per implements of North America has already been noticed. 
The following titles may have some interest to special students : 
Upon the value of the frontal process (spina frontalis squame@ ossis 
temporum, Stirnfortsatz der Schlafenschuppe) as a race character- 
istic, by Dr. Ludwig Stieda ; Upon the problem of the origin of 
marriage ; Communications at t the sessions of the Society of 
the Lower Rhine, by Prof. Schaafhausen; C. Von Baers’ anthro- 
pological and geographical writings, by L Stieda; Upon meas- 
uring and fixing the horizontal of the skull, by Prof. Schaaf- 
hausen. Bound up with Archiv are Nos. 9, 10 and 11 of Corre- 
spondenz-Blatt, giving a full account of the general meeting of 
the German Anthropological society at Constanz, 24-26 Sept. 
1877. This is by far the most instructive part of the number, and 
lets us glance at the immense activity of our German brethren. 
ctober number of Revue d’ Anthropologie contains the 
Tobis original papers: Note on a pre-historic tumulus in 
s Ayres, by Estasnilao Ceballos; Study of the Soninkes 
TRN by Dr. Bérenger-Feraud ; The Skulls of the blacks of 
India (tribe of amar by E. Callamand; Note on the Bahnars 
(Cochin China), by Dr. orice. The most valuable part of 
the number is that occupied by the description of the “ Interna- 
tional Congress of Anthropological Sciences; The following are 
given in full: Openiñg address, by Dr. Paul Broca; Report ofanthro- 
pological societies, by M. Thulié; Report on genera] anthropology, 
by P. Topinard; Reports on ethnology, by MM. Girard de Rialle 
and Bordier; Reports on palzontology, by MM. G. de a 
E Cartaillac and E. Chautre; Report on demography, by 
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