if 
dredged in the harbor g 
General Notes. _ [February, 
o Janeiro (at what depth is not specified) by 
“Expedition. The marine species usually inhabit 
the shores above low-water mark, and the previously described fresh- 
water species are found in the shallow water of brooks, pools, or edges 
of lakes.” To give some idea of the different forms of these crustacea 
we have inserted a portion of the figures prepared by Mr. Faxon and 
kindly loaned by Mr. Agassiz. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
More CORDATE ORNAMENTS. — Since my note on this subject in the 
January Naturalist has been placed in the hands of the printer, two 
more cordate ornaments have been brought to my notice. One is in the 
collection of J. H. Jenkins, having been found in a mound in Warren 
County, Ohio, lying on the neck of a corpse. It is made of a hard stone, 
flat on both sides and measures about four and a half inches in length, 
three and a half across the broadest portion of the lobes, and half an inch 
in thickness, the edges being cut squarely and the notch deeply. 
The second specimen is now in the possession of Mr. William S. Vaux, 
of Philadelphia, and is somewhat similar. A sufficient number of these 
objects, therefore, have been thus far discovered to establish the type, 
which, so far as I know, is a new one, and all doubt is removed as to its 
aboriginal origin. — E. A, BARBER. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News. — Nature for October 26th contains an 
abstract of a paper on Cave-Hunting, read before the Philosophical In- 
stitute of Canterbury, N. Z. The paper describes the inspection of the 
Moa-Bone Point Cave, on the east side of the middle island, in Banks’ 
Peninsula. From the results of the excavations, Dr. Haast infers that a 
very long time has elapsed since the extinction of the moas in that part 
of the island. 
A recent census in the schools of Prussia showed that out of 4,127,- 
766 persons examined, 4,070,923 were under fourteen years of age 
42.97 per cent. had blue eyes, 24.31 per cent. brown eyes; 72 per cent. 
had blonde hair, 26 per cent. had brown hair, and 1.21 per cent. had 
black hair; 6.53 per cent. were brunettes. 
During the coming winter, free lectures on anthropology will be given 
in Paris, at the Ecole libre T Anthropologie, by MM. Broca, Topinard, 
Dally, Mortillet, and Hovelacque. The following gentlemen in Paris 
have signed a paper, binding each one tọ make a will, directing that 
upon his decease his brain shall be sent to the Anthropological Society 
for inspection : MM. Hovelacque, Dally, Mortillet, Broca, and Topinard. 
‘The motive of this singular pledge is to afford facilities for inspecting 
the brains of men whose special mental pursuits are definitely known, in 
order to see whether there is any connection between the structure and = 
aspect of that organ and its well-known operations. 
In the Academy for September 30th, October 21st, and 28th, is an in- — 
teresting discussion between the Rev. Moncure -D. Conway and Mr. 
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