56 General Notes. [ January, 
essay by Dr. Hermann Miiller on Pee oa in German 
insects, with some excellent cuts. H. J. Carter, having 
already published an article on the probábie nature of the animal, 
of Stromatopora, and a second on its mode of growth, prints a 
third paper on the structure of this fossil, and shows its relation 
to the Hydractinia, in the Annals and Magazine for October. In 
the November number he discusses the nutritive and reproduc- 
tive processes of sponges. Carter and Lieberkühn have shown 
that Infusoria and particles of Algæ are taken in as food by the 
cells of the ampullaceous sacs, whether the cells are ciliated or 
not, while Metschnikoff has shown that the cells of the paren- 
chym (mesoderm) also are alimentary cells. Thus every part of 
the spong- a E is capable of enclosing nutritious material 
and digesting it. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.: 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—We are pained to hear of the death 
of Mrs. Rev. Stephen Bowers, wife of the eminent archæologist 
of Santa Barbara, California. She was devoted to her husband’s 
labors, accompanying him in all his expeditions, and was herself 
an intelligent collector. 
e have received from the editors of the Journal of the Vic- 
toria Institute, four pamphlet copies of papers from that publication 
bearing the following titles: The Ethnology of the Pacific, by the 
Rev. S. J. Whitmee ; The caves of South Devon and their teach- 
ing, by J. E. Howard; The contemporaneity of man with the 
extinct mammalia, as taught by recent cavern exploration, and its 
bearing upon the question of man’s antiquity, by Thomas Karr 
Callard; The lapse of time since the Glacial epoch, determined 
by the date of the polished stone age, by J. C. Southall. 
Prof. George M. Dawson is the author of a pamphlet, reprinted 
from the Canadian Naturalist, entitled, Sketches of the past and 
present condition of the Indians of Canada. The Indian popu- 
lation of the Dominion is set down at 100,000. 
Dr. Gustav Brühl sends to the Smithsonian Institution a pam- 
phlet of sixteen pages, entitled, Aztlan-Chicomoztoc, eine ethnol- 
ogische Studien. New York, Cincinnati and St. Louis, printed by | 
Berziger Brothers. 
Two very interesting brochures from the pen of Prof. Boyd 
Dawkins have reached us. One of them treats of the range of 
the mammoth in space and time, and appeared in the Quarterly 
Journal of the Geological Society for February, 1879. The other 
is upon our earliest ancestors in Britain, constituting No. 6 0 
Science Lectures for the People, and was delivered in Manchester, 
Jan. 18, 1879. 
The ’ Fournal of Anatomy and Physiology, Vol. xiv, contains a 
_ paper, by Prof. W. H. Flower, on the ae index as a race 
character in man. 
1Edited by Prof. Oris T. Mason, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
