1879.] Anthropology. 459 
are so developed and which correspond to eminent intellectual 
faculties, if the development of the päis de passage does not cor- 
respond with secondary faculties. The cranial calotte is ex- 
tremely thin. It is not a senile regression. The cerebral depres- 
sions and the vascular furrows are very marked, as if the internal 
table had been thinned by the enlarging of the brain. The frontal 
suture is not entirely ossified; it is less so than the parieto-occipi- 
tal suture which is not entirely closed. There exists a certain 
asymmetry in the osseous vault; the frontal eminence on the 
right side is more prominent than on the left. A more extended 
sents a communication, pp. 260 to 269 upon the frequency of 
dental caries among the Galibi Indians and their offsprings of 
mixed blood with the blacks, 
With regard to the tablets the doctor remarks: “If there are 
now any doubters of the authenticity of these ‘precious monu- 
ments,’ as M. Lucien Adam is pleased to call them, they are 
silent, either from their doubts having been dispelled by the ac- 
cumulation of material evidence, or it may be that they deem us 
So incorrigible in the continued fabrication of these relics that re- 
monstrance would be wasted on us,” 
Presidential office for the ensuing year. Dr. Parry in making 
the nomination said: “It is quite unnecessary to explain to any 
here present that the actual success and present prosperity of the 
academy has been coincident with the interest taken in it by 
woman. The very ground beneath our feet is the spontaneous 
gift of a generous woman.” ? 
Edmund Andrews contributes to the Transactions of the 
Wisconsin Academy, a paper on the literature and religion of the 
mound-builders, in which he takes the ground that they are not 
iene as popularly supposed, but still exist among our Indian 
ribes. ; ! 
- In the same volume Dr. C. R. Hoy gives us a discussion upon 
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