656 General Notes. [ October, 
Dysodus. The hair of this species is rather long and is not 
curled, and is neither very coarse nor fine. Ears pendant. The 
colors in the three specimens are black and white, the former 
predominating in one, the latter in another. 
The extra copies of the paper in which this species was de- 
scribed were issued during my absence from home, so that their 
date of publication was unfortunately omitted; this is August 
23, 1879.—£. D. Cope, 
ZooLoGcicaAL News.— The Rural Press, August 2d, contains de- , 
scriptions read before the Californian Academy of Sciences. It is 
unfortunate that these descriptions should appear in this hetero- 
dox manner, and we would urge the author to send his descrip- 
tions to some recognized scientific publication, where they ma 
meet the notice of ichthyologists. The new forms are Glyptoceph- 
alus zachiras, Chitonotus megacephalus and Caulolatilus princeps, 
all from the Pacific coast. A zoological station has been estab- 
lished in Scotland at Cowie, near Stonehaven, the work to be 
carried on under the direction of Mr. G. J. Romanes, in connection 
with Aberdeen University——Dr. J. F. Brandt, the veteran Rus- 
sian naturalist of St. Petersburg, died August 7th, aged 77. es 
left valuable manuscripts which will be published —Prof. All- 
man’s address as president of the British Association, began at 
Sheffield, August 20th, was on protoplasm. Cobbold’s Para- 
sites: a treatise on the Entozoa of man and animals, will prove 
useful to: students and medical men.——A reply to Principal 
Dawson’s criticism of Moebius’ work on Eozoön by Meebius him- 
self appears in the American Yournal of Science for September. 
Lubbock’s scientific lectures just published by Macmillan & 
Co., will interest zoological students. Mr. Moseley’s Croonian 
lecture for 1878 was on the Stylasteride, a family of Hydroid 
stony corals. 
ANTHROPOLOGY .! 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—The second number of Revue d'An- 
thropologie for 1879 contains several papers of great importance. 
The first one is that by M. Florentino Ameghino upon pre-historic 
man in La Plata. The article is based upen an anthropological 
exhibit ir the late Paris Exposition from the Argentine Republic. 
The author prefaces his discussion of the antiquity of man in La 
Plata with a chapter upon the American Aborigines, their antiquity 
and origin, in which he has brought together with rare diligence, 
from many literary sources, theories and statements concerning his 
subject. While many of these unproved opinions are stated only to 
be repudiated, others are retained and used as the bases of argu- 
ments which have no value whatever. The following story will 
suffice as an example: The Scandinavians were preceded by the 
Irish. An Irishman named Ari was driven by a tempest to 
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