1879. ] Anthropology. 397 
S. Gatschet. Nearly one-half of the number is occupied with 
correspondence and notes that are. quite as valuable as the 
more extended articles, if the authors of the latter will pardon us. 
It should be well understood that very few of our special periodi- 
cals are paying expenses. In order to keep them alive, therefore, 
the friends of that branch of knowledge must make sacrifices to 
sustain them. So let it be with the Azteguarian. 
We have received from the author, Mr. John Campbell, M. A., 
Montreal, a pamphlet entitled, “ The affiliation of the Algonquin 
anguages.” The paper is supplemented with a linguistic chart 
showing the supposed affiliation of the Algonquin tongues with 
the Malayo-polyenesian, Ural-altaic, Asiatic-hyperborean and 
Peninsular languages. 
The volume containing the report of the forty-fourth session of 
the Congrés Archeologique de France, held at Senlis, in 1877, is 
devoted oe to that branch of arclieeology which is out- 
side of our area. There are a few interesting illustrated papers 
on the prehistoric archeology of France which will pay the 
perusal. 
The first and the second fasciculus of the Audletins of the 
Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, for the year 1878, contain very 
valuable matter of general import. 
n page 13 Paul Bert speaks of barometric pressure as a fac- 
tor in civilization, on the occasion of presenting his book entitled: 
La. Pression Barometrique, recherches de physiologie expér- 
imen ae 
6 is a communication, by M.’Coudereau, upon the 
OGRA. of development in relation to nourishment, At the 
close of the article is a series of questions which M. Condereau 
proposes to be put in the hands of travelers. 
The article by Dr. P. Topinard on the insertion of the hair of 
hegroes in tufts is as interesting as it is origina make a few 
extracts from it, “The fundamental division of the Haman races 
into two branches rests, by common consent, upon the character- 
istics of the hair; of this classification Bory de Saint-Vincent is 
the author. The first branch contains the races with straight 
hair, the second, the races with woolly hair.” 
ere is a subdivision of the second branch made by M. 
Haeckel, and generally accepted. It depends upon the manner 
in which the wo olly hair is distributed over the surface of the 
body and more ecicaay of the head. In one case their inser- 
tion is continuous, like the straws ina field of wheat. In the 
other it occurs in bouquets, or isolated tufts, having heroi them 
free spaces where the skin is glabrous. M. Haeckel calls ‘the 
former eriocomi, the latter lophocomt. The origin of this character, 
of such great importance, if it is true, goes back to Barrow, at 
_ the commencement of this s century. The Hottentots, said he, 
have Pair of a singular nature ; - it does not cover the head totally, 
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