220 General Notes. [ March, 
anthropologisch-ethnologische Monographie,” published as a sup- 
plement of five hundred pages to Zeitschrift fiir ethnologie, Berlin. 
The October number of the Revue d’ Anthropologie contains the 
following original papers and reviews: Notes sur la fécondité des 
mulatres du Sénégal, by M. Berenger-Feraud, 12 pp.; dela notion 
de la Race en Anthropologie, by M. Paul Topinard, 72 pp.; Note 
sur le a du Cerveau considéré dans ses Rapports 
avec le Crane, by éré, 14 pp.; Une négresse blanche, by 
Dr. Smester, 7 pp. La Mythologie Comparée, of M. Girard 
de Rialle is reviewed in a critique of eight pages, by M. André 
Lefèvre. The chapter entitled “ Revue Préhistorique, by M. E. 
Callamand, embraces a review of Greenwell’s ‘British Barrows, ” 
eleven pages, and a résumé of the prehistoric portion of Bulletin 
de la Société d’Anthropologie, 4 pp. The book review, by M. 
Zaborowski, is a critique of 8 pp. on Chudzinski’s “Anatomie 
comparée des circonvolutions cérébrales.” Under the Revue des 
Journaux are reviews upon: Etude sur les cranes boughis et 
dyaks du Muséum d’histoire naturelle, by Dr. Montano; Anom- 
alie symétrique héréditaire des deux mains, by Dr. Boechat de 
Fribourg, in Bull. Congr. medic. intern. de Genéve, 1878; Aperçu 
général de l’hérédité et de ses lois, by Dr. Marc Lorin, Thèse 
inaugurale de la Faculté de medecine, Paris, 1878; Annales de 
démographie internationale, recucil trimestriel publié sous la 
direction du Dr. Arthur Chervin, Deuxieme année, Paris, 1878; 
Lectures on the Indigenous races of the Pacific Ocean, by Wil- 
liam H. Flower; Anthropology of the county of Gloucester, by 
Dr. John Beddoe, in Zrans. Glouc. Arch. Soc., Bristol, 1878; 
Essay upon the anth ropology of Southern Tyrol, based upon the 
examination of skulls discovered at Saint Pierre, near Meran, by 
M. Rabl-Ruckhard, Berlin Gesellsch. f. Anth., &c., Feb. 16, 1878. 
The number closes with brief extracts, a short résumé of the 
various anthropological congresses during the year, and a biblio- 
graphical bulletin of five pages. The most valuable contribution 
to the number is the paper of M. Topinard upon the idea of 
“sack. if nen popo og and demands more space for a review 
than we can give it her 
Prof. Friedrich Müller contributes t> e Ausland, No. 10, a 
short article upon the language of anim 
The Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie, 
Ethnologie, und Urgeschichte from January-February of the cur- 
rent year, give us a digest of the proceedings of that celebrated 
society.. In tu rning over the leaves we find quite extende 
abstracts of the following communications: Session of Jan II. 
Skull from the Bone-Cave of Gorenice, near Ojcow, Poland, by 
Ferd. Römer, in Breslau, with Table 1v; Upon the stone imple- 
ments of Japan, and upon various antiquities in the collection of 
the German Society for the study of Eastern Asia, by Hr. v. 
Brandt; Results of his measurements of school children, by Pro- = 
