1879. | Anthropology. 457 
us the most southern locality yet known, and illustrates its char- 
acters with some very good figures. Will not some of the natu- 
ralists of Mexico give us an account of the metamorphoses of the 
real Siredon, the S. mexicanus, from the city of Mexico? No one 
as yet described it, if any there be—Z. D. Cope. 
LOTA MACULOSA IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RivER.—About twenty 
years ago Mr. J. M. M. Gernerd caught a specimen of this fish in 
a net at Muncy, Lycoming county, Penna. He preserved it in 
his coilection and recently sent it to Philadelphia. It is about a 
foot long. Mr. Gernerd says that he has fished a great deal, but 
has never seen another specimen. It has not been previously 
recorded from the Susquehanna river—E£. D. Cope. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.? 
Topinard, in the Bulletin of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris 
for 1878, pp 2, is by Dr. Paul Broca, the distinguished anat- 
omist, upon the indices of breadth in the scapula of man, the 
apes, and the series of mammals. Three tables of indices close 
the communication. To M. Broca, perhaps, more than to any 
other anatomist living or dead, we are indebted for the applica- 
tion of rigorous methods and instruments of precision to various 
parts of the skeleton, which are likely to yield precious results in 
deciding the exact place of man in nature. 
n page 104, M. Gustave Le Bon discusses the inequality 
of the corresponding regions of the cranium. The measures 
were taken on 300 skulls from different series in the collection 
of the Anthropological museum. Long ago students inquired 
whether the two hemispheres of the brain was equal, and Bichat 
considered that a default of symmetry was accompanied by a lack 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—The paper following that of Dr. 
foundation we have for such atheory. In man most of the organs 
are more developed on the right side than on the left; but taking 
into consideration that the left portion of the brain. presides over 
the functions of the right side of the body, we might suppose, æ 
Priori, that it is the left hemisphere of the brain which should be 
the most developed. Upon the 287 skulls that I have measured, in 
taking for a starting point the vertical plane passing through the 
external occipital protuberance and the prolongation of the median 
suture of the nasal bone, the following results obtained : 
Skulls where the right side predominates 125 
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y o “« different bones are unequal, but whose inequalities are com- 
pensatory É : 
287 
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