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such a use of this particular variety ; but the precise range of use of 
any one form of stone implement can scarcely be brought down to a 
mathematical demonstration. I cannot go further into detail, but will 
add that as in the case of fishing spears, so with many other forms, of 
which, perhaps, I have spoken too confidently ; but I still submit that 
the field rather than the cabinet is the proper place to study stone im- 
plements. 
With reference to the division ofthe Stone age in New Jersey into an 
older and a later stage, I will but say that what I deem a conclusive 
demonstration of the correctness of this opinion will shortly be published 
in considerable detail, and until then on this most important point will 
gladly “ rest our case.” — CHARLES C. ABBOTT. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—In Nature for April 5, 1877, is a full 
report of a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, London, by Fran- 
cis Galton. The object was to show how individuals of different gen- 
erations resemble each other so closely, while individuals do not neces- — 
sarily tend to leave their like behind them, especially if they depart from 
the average; yet, on the whole, the proportion of gradation of long and 
short, strong and feeble, and dark and pale appears to be constant. The 
author displays his accustomed ingenuity in the arrangement of his illus- 
trative diagrams. 
The committees on the “ historical exhibition of ancient art in all _ 
countries, and of the ethnography of peoples foreign to France,” to be 
opened at the Universal Exposition at Paris, in 1878, so far as appointed — 
stand as follows: Adrien de Longperier, director; Gustav Schlum- 
berger, general secretary. A commission of admission and classifica- 
tion, divided into nine sections, is charged with preparing and organizing 
the exhibit. The following gentlemen will preside over the sections : — 
1. Primitive art and antiquity of Gaul, Alexander Bertrand, Jules 
Desnoyers, the Marquis of Vibraye, Frederic Moreau, Dr. Hamy. 
9. Ethnography of peoples outside of France, Alphonse Pinart, J. L. 
Gerome, Albert Goupil, Dr. Hamy, Henri de Longperier. 
Mr. D. B. Perry contributes to the Saline County News, published at 
Crete, Nebraska, an interesting letter on the Pawnees, correcting some 
mistakes made in Appleton’s Cyclopedia, and pays a handsome tribute to 
Mrs. E. G. Platt, who spent many years among them. It is to be 
hoped that Mrs. Platt will give some permanency to her knowledge of 
this rapidly perishing tribe. 
Volume iii., No. 1, of Prof. F. V. Hayden’s Bulletin is out, and con- . 
tains the following papers on anthropological matters : — 
I. A Calendar of the Dakota Nation, by Bvt. Lt.-Col. Garrick Mal- 
lery, U. S. A., with a plate. 
TY Researches in the Kjökkenmöddings and Graves of a Former Pop- 
ulation of the Coast of Oregon, by Paul Schumacher. Seven plates. 
ILI. Researches in the Kjékkenméddings of a Former Population of 
