454 General Notes. [ June, 
cephalic, a skull whose diameter from the frontal to the occipital 
bone exceeds the transverse diameter. 
The second named volume supplies a real need. It has been 
favorably reviewed before in these notes; but, since the mastodon 
and the mammoth are so frequently mentioned in connection with 
priscan man, a résumé of what is known of them in a handy 
manual is exceedingly timely and we repeat our praise. 
Mr. Maclean’s third volume, “ The Mound-builders,” in its first 
twelve chapters, reviews what has been written concerning this 
mysterious race, and gives the author’s speculations about their 
earthworks, arts, civilization and antiquity. The second part, pp. 
15 3-230, is more valuable, with all deference, than all the rest of 
the author’s publications put together. It is a kind of work that 
we never weary in praising. These chapters will be quoted when 
all the rest is ignored. It comprises the archeology of Butler 
county, Ohio, with a map, giving, township by township, a com- 
plete report on a county which was one of the most important 
seats of the Mound-builders. Assisted by an able corps of gen- 
tlemen, the attempt was made to search out every enclosure and 
locate every mound. Some of these surveys are old, but many 
of them are for the first time made public. The author gives, on 
pp. 229 and 230, a table of all the private archzological collec- 
tions in the county, with a classified list of specimens in each. 
Tue PROTECTION OF AntiguitTies.—Upon a motion made by 
M. Henri Martin, a member of the National Institute, the Anthro- 
pological Society of Paris, at its session of December 5, 1878, 
passed a resolution that a committee be nominated to wait upon 
the Minister of Public Instruction in order to confer with refer- 
ence to the preservation of the megalithic monuments of France. 
The minister, favoring the proposition, requested the Anthro- 
pological Society and the Committee upon Historic Monuments 
to nominate the members of the Commission. On the 21st of 
November, 1879, a Sub-committee was added to the Committee 
upon Historic Monuments with instructions to draw up an inven- 
tory of megalithic monuments and erratic inscribed boulders 
both in France and in Algiers. The committee consists of the 
following distinguished archeologists : president, M. Henri Mar- 
tin ; vice-presidents, M. Daubrée, director of the School of Mines, 
and M. de Mortillet, assistant curator of the Museum of Saint-Ger- 
main and professor in the School of Anthropology ; members, 
MM. Paul Broca, director of the school of anthropology and 
general secretary of the Société d’Anthropologie, Emile Cartailhac, 
editor of “ Materiaux pour l’Histoire Primitive de Homme, 
Ernest Chantre, assistant director of the Museum of Natural 
History, Lyons; Falsan, Leguay, Pomel, Trutat, curator of the 
Museum of Natural History at Toulouse; Salmond, Sommerard, 
curator of the Museum of Cluny; secretary, M. A. Violet 
le Duc. 
