658 General Notes, [ October, 
historic manufacturing village in the Miami valley, by I. H. Benk- 
ley. The usual amount of current notes closes the volume. 
The editor, in his letter to contributors, says that in the edito- 
rial department the Azt:qguarian has succeeded beyond his expec- 
tations. Of course magazines cannot be run without money, and in 
this regard the friends of anthropology must stand by the magazine. 
The editor of these notes in the NATURALIST, under the kind 
_a dictionary of North American Indians. For the purpose of 
encouraging the former the Smithsonian Institution has issued a 
pamphlet of directions to observers, which can be obtained in any 
number by writing to the Smithsonian Institution. The work on 
the latter, or the dictionary of tribes, has reached the astounding 
number of ten thousand names. Of course there were never 
that many tribes in North America, but some tribes have 
nearly a hundred names. These names are of two kinds, auto- 
nyms and heteronyms. The former may be tribal or con- 
sanguineous, the latter may be Indian or Aryan, and either may 
be contemptuous or descriptive. The Aryan names have the 
further embarrassment of being written in English, French, Span- 
ish and Dutch, and not always on the same phonetic system at 
that. Such papers as that of Mr. C. C. Baldwin in the Antiqua- 
rian, are of incalculable value to the summarist, and we take this 
method of expressing our thanks and calling for more. 
Mr. . Barber, in charge of the archzological department, 
Permanent Exhibition, Philadelphia, has gone to work in earnest 
to make his portion of the exhibition a success, It is the inten- 
tion of the Council to establish a permanent loan exhibition of 
prehistoric relics; by which is meant that the exhibition and not 
the loan is to permanent. Every guarantee of safe return of 
specimens is promised, and the exhibition will, no doubt, be suc- 
cessful. 
The Appletons have brought out in good style, Hackel’s Evo- 
lution of Man, a review of which by Mr. Lester F. Ward was 
noticed in the July number of the Naturaisr. It is impossible 
in a short notice to review a work of such magnitude. No doubt 
it is a most exhaustive treatise on the biolegy of the human 
race, and the scientific reputation of the author must give it a 
wide circulation. The author’s opinion “that a really scientific 
study of nature can no more dispense with philosophic reflection 
than can healthy philosophy ignore the results of natural scien- 
tific experience,” leads him to apply his theory to all phenomena, 
material and spiritual. Furthermore, the political influence 0 
the clergy in Germany has brought them into sharp conflict with 
men of science and politicians. The work of Prof. Haeckel is 
filled with bitter invective, which is little appreciated in a land o 
free thought, free speech and free religion. 
