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mention the sources from which he has derived his own informa- 
tion. And, firstly, there is no Society in our country which pub- 
lishes a journal similar to the Journal of the Anthropological 
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Bulletins de la Société 
d’Anthropologie, de Paris; Revue d’Anthropologie, in the same 
city; Materiaux pour l’histoire de Phomme, Toulouse; Archiv 
fir Anthropologie, Braunschweig; Zeitschrift für Ethnologie; 
Berlin. Authors of works on this subject find a means of pub- 
lication in the Smithsonian Institution, the Peabody Museum, 
Powell’s Bureau of Ethnology, the Proceedings of Local So- 
cieties, the Government Surveys, and the scientific and literary 
periodicals. The American Antiquarian, published by the Rev. 
S. D. Peet, of Ohio, is a praiseworthy attempt to afford 
anthropologists a common ground upon which they may meet. 
Owing to this desultory manner of publication many valuable 
papers would be lost sight of if some index to them were not 
preserved, In the Index to Periodical Literature of the Ameri- 
can Bookseller, the section of anthropology in Index Medicus, 
published in Washington, and the anthropological summary of the 
AMERICAN NATURALIST, nearly every contribution of importance 
finds mention by title at least. Mr. S. H. Scudder, of Boston, 
has published, at great pains, a list of all the learned societies of 
the world. Sabin and Son’s Dictionary of books relating to 
America has reached Part Lxvutt. 
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EDITORS’ TABLE. 
EDITORS: A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE. 
In our February number we drew attention to the then 
recent action of a majority of the Philadelphia Academy in refer- 
ence to the policy of its management. We have since received 
the last number of the Proceedings for 1879, covering the months 
of November and December; also those for 1880 for the month 
of January. The former includes two hundred and fourteen 
pages of scientific matter, and fifty-eight pages of reports, an. 
excellent showing for the Proceedings as a medium of publication. 
An inspection of the sources of this matter, however, reveals the 
fact that only three pages of it are the product of resident mem- 
bers of the Academy, or of those who have a voter’s share in its 
