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It was not possible to ascertain exactly to what species these 
owls belonged. The adult birds could be neither captured nor 
killed, although, as may be supposed, after the second attack a 
price was set on their heads. All was without avail, they with- 
drew from the neighborhood, and were only seen again at long 
intervals— Translated by Dr. R. Fletcher from the Bulletin de la 
Société Medicale de la Suisse Romande. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.'* 
THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES 
HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION AT PARIS, 
AUGUST 16-21, 1878.—First Day.—Opening address of the Presi- 
dent, Dr. Paul Broca. Report upon anthropological societies and 
instructions in anthropology, by Dr. Thulie. Report upon ana- 
tomical, biological, and pathological anthropology, by Dr. Paul 
Topinard. Report upon ethnology of Europe, of Western oT 
and America, by M. Girard de Rialle. Report upon the ethnol- 
ogy of Eastern Asia, Africa, and Oceanica, by Dr. Bordier. First 
report palazoethnology—geological times, by M. Gabriel de Mor- 
tellett. Second report upon palzeoethnology—neolithic period, or 
that of polished stone, by M. Emile Cartailhac. Report upon 
Demography in relation to Anthropology, by Dr. Chervin. 
Second Session—Physical development of the two sexes in Italy, 
by M. Pagliani. Relations of the conformation of the skull with in- 
hs by M. Le Bon. Notes upon the East Indians trans- 
ported into Guiana, by Dr. Maurel. Notes on the hair, by Dr. 
Latteux. Relations of the proportions of the skull with those of 
the body, yi Madame Clemence Royer. New dolmens in Portu- 
gal, by M. D a Silva. 
jag sees SÀ ancient owe by Dr. Chil y Naranjo. 
Creation of laboratories in the colonies of different States, by Prof. 
irchow. Incised bones of cetaceans of the tertiary epoch, by 
Professor Capellini. The flaked flints of St. Acheul, by M. 
d’Acy. A cemetery of the epoch of bronze at Pogues (Niévre), 
by M. Jacquinot. Digging in the grotto of the Mammoth, Poland, 
Count Zawisha. 
Fifth Session—The ancient monuments on the banks of the 
Vistula, by M. Sila Homotypical characteristics of the 
thoracic and abdominal members, by M. Alexis Julien. Differen- 
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