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permanent works have had a standard, and it is very difficult to 
ascertain what that standard was. r. Petrie finds a strong 
resemblance between the unit of the North American mound- 
builders and some of the old world standards, 
next paper on the game of Patolli, in Ancient Mexico, 
and its proteble Asiatic origin, by Mr. E. B. Tylor, has already 
appeared in the Popular Science Monthly. The paper by Mr. 
Francis Galton on Composite Portraits was read last summer 
before the British Association, and was fully noticed at the time. 
The next communication, on the Origin of the classificatory sys- 
poses Mr. Morgan’s hypothesis of the cei ie song and pro- 
miscuity as the starting point of his system e affirms that 
“the consanguine family has not existed as a sania social 
institution,” and that “the Punaluan group can be accounted for 
satisfactorily without assuming the eee existence of the con- 
sanguine family.” Against Sir John Lubbock’s theory that 
“ Children were not in the earliest times regarded as equally 
related to their father and their mother, but that the natural pro- 
gress of ideas is, first, that a child is related to his tribe generally, 
secondly, to his mother and not to his father, thirdly, to his father 
and not to his mother, lastly, and lastly only, that he is related to 
both,” Mr. Wake offers the opposing statements of Mr. Mor- 
gan with reference to our own American tribes. os McLennan’s 
system of polyandry is dismissed with a few wo 
The number closes with two papers, by Mr. Alfred Simson, on 
South American tribes, entitled: “ Notes on the Piojes of the 
Putumayo,” and “ Vocabulary of the Zaparo language. 
All lovers of excellent work will be delighted ‘with a new serial 
whose first number appeared Jan. 31, 1879, bearing the following 
title, Judex Medicus, a Monthly classified record of the Current 
Medical Literature of the World. Compiled under the super- 
vision of Dr. John S. Billings, Surgeon U.S. Army, and Dr. Rob- 
ert Fletcher, M.R.C.S., Eng. New York, F. Leypoldt, 37 Park 
Row. We take the liberty to quote from page 31 the following 
titles 
Busch (H.) Grösse, Gewicht und Brustumfang von Soldaten. 
Studien über ihre Entwickelung und ihren Einfluss auf die mili- 
tarische Tauglichkeit. . Berlin, 1 878, A. Hirschwald. 85 pp., 8vo. 
Cassanova (A.) Ibridismo in ispecie fra l'uomo e parecchi 
animali, facendo punto sulla transformazione delle razze scimio- 
tiche di primo ordine nelle infime selvaggie umane, e€ sui metodi 
per ottenere migliori tipi umani, equini, boviné, ovine, ecc. 
Milano, 1878. Zanaboni, 228 pp., Svo 
Von Lenhossék (Jos.) Des déformations artificielles du crâne 
en général, de celles de deux crânes magae trou vés en 
