536 General Notes. [July, 
3. The Age of Bronze made its appearance in Gaul, as in Scan- 
dinavia and in the north, anteriorly to all documentary history. 
ge of Bronze had, in France, in Switzerland, and south- 
ward, as great a development as in northern countries, and espe- 
cially as in Scandinavia. 
5. The Age of Bronze had in France and in Switzerland a long 
period of existence, which is proved by the great number of 
localities, amounting to more than six hundred, and by the total 
number of objects found isolated and in the diggings, approach- 
ing 35,000 in number. 
6. The valley of the Rhone is one of the most prolific spots in 
Europe for bronze antiquities. Here alone about thirty per cent. 
of the objects have been found, or nearly 11,000 specimens. 
7. The importance of the Age of Bronze and the special direc- 
tion of civilization in this period are demonstrated by the trans- 
formations which metallurgy has undergone in each country. 
8. These local varieties permit us at present to divide Europe 
into several archeological provinces with distinct characteristics. 
9. Without being able to indicate definitely the origin of metal- 
lurgy, we have seen that it was certainly oriental; and that, start- 
ing probably from India, it came into Europe rather through — 
Asia Minor than through the Caucasus. 
The same mail brought another work by the same author, pub- 
lished in 1878, entitled, “ Les Nécropoles du premier age du fer 
des Alpes Francaises.” 
ANTHROPOLOGY IN ENGLAND.—Two numbers of the Journal of 
the Anthropological Institute reach us almost simultaneously, that 
for Nov., 1879, and that for Feb., 1880. The former contains the 
conclusion of Prof. Flower’s paper on the osteology of the Anda- 
manese, and Part u1 of Mr. Howorth’s extended and valuable - 
researches upon the spread of the Slavic race. The February 
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languages, by A. H. Keane; followed by Notes on analogies of 
manners between the Indo-Chinese races and the races of the 
Indian archipelago, by Col. Yule. Mr. Keane’s paper will be 
understood from the following abstract. Five propositions are 
maintained : 
1. Both of the great Asiatic types known as Caucasian and Mongolian have from . 
prehistoric times occupied the Chinese peninsula. 
11, The brown races of Malaysia consist exclusively of these two elements variously 
intermingled, the Caucasian forming everywhere the substratum. 
ul. The large brown race of Eastern Polynesia (our Sawaiori) consists exclusively 
of the Caucasian element. 
iv. The Negritos, the true Autochthones of Indo-China and Western Malays? 
have been almost everywhere rather supplanted than absorbed by the Caucasial 
and Mongolians. 
