530 General Notes. [August, 
ined, pp. 287-353 (best thing in the number, and first rate). Ueber 
einige neuere Arbeiten über das Gehirn, Prof. Dr. Pansch, in 
Kiel, 354-365; A review of Poesche’s “ Die Arier,’ A. Ecker; 
Ethnographisches aus der neueren Reiseliteratur, von F. Ralzel; 
A review of the transactions of learned societies and associations ; 
The Fourth Russian Archzological Congress at Kasan; The 
British Association ; International Congress; American Associa- 
tion. In this number we have the second of the series of cata- 
logues of anthropological museums of Germany in the list of the 
Anthroplogical Collection of the University of Gottingen, founded 
by Blumenbach, by Dr. J. W. Spengel; and Catalogue of the 
Anthropological Collection of the Universi ity of Freiburg, by 
Alexander Ecker. Everything is nicely done in these lands. 
M. Emile Cartailhac, the editor of Matériaux pour I Histoire 
de l Homme, sends us a pamphlet of 103 pages, entitled “ L’Age 
de Pierre dans Les Souvenirs et Superstitions bs aii: par M. 
Emile Cartailhac, avec 68 gravures et 2 planches dans le texte, 
Paris. C. Reinwald, 1878. The author has teed engaged upon 
this study for some time past and has contributed several papers 
bearing thereupon to the Matériaux. We give the contents of 
the seven chapters 
La pierre de foudre, le coin du tonnerre, 
. Des haches de pierre transformées en amulettes, 
III. Pointes de fleches en si ex montées en argent et e 
1V. Les bijoux = sie charmes sous forme de pointes de flèches 
et de hachet 
V. Le röle des am taillés dans les cérémonies religieuses en 
Orient et en Occident. 
VI. De la transition de rage de pierre a l’âge de bronze. 
VII. L’age de pierre et les auteurs classiques de l'antiquité. 
The following papers have come to notice since our last issue: 
The Practice of Medicine and Surgery by the Aboriginal races 
of the South-west, by Dr. W. J. Hoffman, Philadelphia Reporter, 
Feb. 22d, 3 pp. The Ancient Cities of Cibola, Rev. S. Jack- 
son, Rocky Mountain News, Jan——The Failures and Fallacies 
bd 
Aa 
of Prehistoric Archæolo ogy, Rev. J. A. Waddell, Southern Pres- 
byterian Review, Oct. 
GEOLOGY AND PALAIONTOLOGY. 
A Decane or Docs.—The Truckee beds of the White river 
formation in Oregon have yielded a larger number of species Of 
Camde than any other American horizon, while representatives 
of other families of Carnivora are much less common. Ten spe- 
sme Land.;. J, CRS AG, s Gams L; G geismarianus ; n 
- Ve C. See ` C gregarius; Amphicyon ae 
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