184 General Notes. [ March, 
Classification of races, divisions, and relationships. 
Prehistoric Anthropology. G. de Mortillet. 
(1.) Human paleontology. 
(2.) Prehistoric archeology. 
(3.) Determination of human remains by archeological data. 
Linguistic Anthropology. M. Hovelacque. 
eneral characteristics, classification, and division of languages. — 
In Archivio per P Antropologia, etc., Dr. Luigi Pagliani publishes an 
interesting memoir upon the influence of human environment upon the 
development of the individual, taking as his motto Quetelet’s sentence, 
“ The development of the mature man is trammeled by the special condi- 
tions in which the poor infants find themselves ; the laws of nature are 
combated by the influences of our social organization without recurring 
to force. It depends in some sort upon the government to have the 
people large or small, more or less vigorous.” M. Pagliani treats of his 
subject under the four following heads : — 
(1.) The pea of unfavorable conditions of life on the physical 
cert am of m 
2.) Influence a the amelioration of life upon organisms at first 
subjected to unfortunate conditio 
(3.) Influence of conditions aan favorable to life upon human 
physical development. 
( elation between the physical development of the male and the 
female sex. under diverse conditions. 
(5.) Activity of physical development in the years which precede and 
follow the age of puberty in the two sexes, and under special conditions. 
Five parts of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s Descriptive Sociology are now 
in print, namely: (1.) English, (2.) Ancient enh Races, (3.) Low- 
est Races, Negritos, Polynesians, (4.) African Races, (5.) Asiatic 
Races. Volume I. of The Principles of Sociology is also announced 
by the same author. — Or1s T. Mason. 
order to make the monthly anthropological notes, kindly prepared for 
the Midenin by Profane Masyn, as satan ome as rs — of books, pam- 
phiets, or newspaper articles in this country 
or Europe, are invited to send copies to Prof, O. T. Mason, Columbian College, Wash- 
ington, D. C. — EDITOR American NATURALIST. 
GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY. 
MM. GAUDRY AND DE SAPORTA ON THE PALÆONTOLOGY OF THE 
WESTERN TERRITORIES. — I have readwith much interest the explana- 
tions in your letter relating to the explorations of the western Terri- 
tories. I see that the works of Mr. Lesquereux on vegetable palæon- 
tology appear to you to be of great importance. As to myself I we got 
pursue the researches made in regard to fossil vertebrates. I think li 
_ yourself that the results of the explorations directed by Professor Hay- 3 
1 In a'letter to Count de Saporta. 
