380 General Notes. [ May, 
Prof. Ecker, the author of the first article, published in Globus, 
1878, XXXIII, 177, a paper upon abnormal hairiness in men, espe- 
cially with reference to the so-called hairy men. The present paper 
is a continuation and extension of those studies in thoroughness, 
although a great restriction of the area of observation. While the 
author was endeavoring to ascertain the significance of distribution 
of hair over the foetus in general, and of the “richoszs sacralis in par- 
ticular, his attention was arrested not only by the hair-whorl near 
the coccyx, but also by the bald place (glabella), and the dimple 
(foveola coccygea). The author, after making these discoveries 
independently, found that others also had mentioned the dimple and 
the hair-whorl, while the g/aée//a had not been noticed at all, and 
the connection of all these characteristics into a single study was 
entirely original with him. The design of the paper is to describe 
the phenomena separately, to ascertain their mutual relationships, 
and to arrive, if possible, at their origin and meaning. 
The Bureau of Ethnology at Washington, designing in the 
future to publish a large work upon the gesture speech of mankind, 
has issued a preliminary quarto fasciculus of seventy-two pages 
ton outline.” The next chapter treats of the origin and extent 0 
gesture speech, holding that the latter preceded articulate language 
in importance, which remained rudimentary long after gesture 
had become an art. The preponderance of authority is to the 
effect that man, when in possession of all his faculties, did not 
make a deliberate choice between voice and gesture, both being 
originally instinctive, as both are now; and there never was a 
time when one was used to the exclusion of the other. With the 
w sou 
with gesture he exhibited actions, motions, positions, forms, 
dimensions, directions, distances, and their derivatives. It 18 
ideas under physical forms, had a formative effect upon many 
words; that they exhibit the earliest condition of the human 
mind; are traced from the remotest antiquity among all peoples 
possessing records, and are universally prevalent in the pede 
stage of social evolution. Col. Mallery next proceeds to demol 
