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tion to New Guinea, by A. W. Franks; On the South Sea Islanders, 
by W. L. Rankin. Several papers are devoted to British archeology. 
M. Van der Horck contributes a paper on the Laplanders, and the 
Rey. W. Harper treats of The Tribes of British Guiana. 
An elaborate, illustrated work on the archeology of Finland has 
lately been published in Helsingissii, by Johann Reinhold Aspelin. The 
title is Suomalais Ugrilaisen Muinaistutkinnon Alkeita. 
Matériaux for January contains the usual amount of information con- 
cerning local explorations. In addition to this is a review by Montelius 
of the history and antiquities of Sweden, and of Pinart’s Tumuli in Van- 
couver’s Island. 
Nature of February 15th contains a letter from Mr. Gerald S. Davies 
on the Obsidian Cutters of Melos.- This is an interesting account of a se- 
ries of obsidian cores and flakes from the Island of Melos, some having 
a “singular wavy pattern on the back ridge.” 
The French Anthropological Society has been authorized to open an 
international exhibition in the central palace of the Trocadero. M. Qua- 
trefages has been appointed chairman of the commission. 
We take great pleasure in welcoming to our fraternity of ethnological 
laborers Mr. Albert S. Gatschet, of Weimar. The following of his 
papers have come under our notice: Twelve Idioms spoken in the 
Southwest of North America, Weimar, 1876, 8vo, pp. 150; Indian 
Languages of the Pacific States and Territories, in the Magazine of 
American History, March, 1877; and Analytical Report of Eleven Idi- 
oms spoken in Southern California, Nevada, and on the Lower Colorado . 
River, their Phonetic Elements, Grammatical Structure, and Mutual 
Affinities, in Lieut..Geo. M. Wheeler’s Annual Report, 1876. In the 
same report will be found the following anthropological papers in addi- 
tion to the one mentioned above: Report on the Operations of a 
Special Party for making Ethnological Researches in the Vicinity of 
Santa Barbara, Cal., with an Historical Account of the Region ex- 
plored, by H. C. Yarrow, M. D.; Notes upon the Ethnology of Southern 
California and the Adjacent Regions, by Dr. O. Loew; and On the 
Physiological Effects of a very Hot Climate, by the same author. 
e amount of human remains, mortars, ollas, etc., found at one lo- 
cality, described in Dr. Yarrow’s paper, was so immense that they named 
it the Big Bonanza. 
The American Geographical Society has recently published Major J. 
W. Powell’s paper, entitled Outlines of the Philosophy of the North 
American Indians. ‘The major divides the subject as follows: Introduc- _ 
tion : Savagery as Ethnic Childhood; Cosmology : System of Worlds, 
Heavenly Bodies, Meteorological Phenomena, Geographical Phenomena- 
Remarkable Facts in Nature, Important Facts in Human Society; Theo 1 
98y: Beast Gods, Hero Gods, Daimon Gods, Firmament Gods, Tutelar 
Gods; Religion: Priestcraft, Prophets, Shamans, Witches, Ecstacism, 
Amuletism ; Mythology. as : 3 : 
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