1877.] | Anthropology. - 497 : 
Santa Barbara Island and the Adjacent Mainland, by Paul Schumacher. 
Fourteen plates. 
IV. The Twana Indians of the Skokomish Reservation, by Rev. M. 
Eells. Three plates. 
The first paper is a very ingenious device of the Dakotas to represent 
the leading events of a series of years extending from 1800-1871. Of 
Mr. Schumacher’s wonderful discoveries we have often spoken in terms 
of praise. Mr. Eells’ paper is an elaborate set of answers to the pam- 
phlet of directions sent to collectors for the Centennial Exhibition. 
Dr. Frederick D. Lente, of Palatka, Fla., contributes to the March and 
April numbers of the Semi- Tropical, published at Jacksonville, two very 
interesting papers on the mounds of Florida. The doctor deserves great 
credit for this useful expenditure of his own leisure and for the advice 
conveyed in his papers concerning the good effect upon the minds and 
bodies of invalids, to be realized by seeking out-of-door amusement and 
occupation. 
In 1872 M. Kouznetzoff was sent by the Russian government through 
the Lithuanian provinces to study their ethnography. The result of his 
labors occupies four volumes and a chart. The Lithuanian language 
s been encroached upon by the Prussians on the west, the Russians 
on the northeast, and by the Poles on the south. The study of this 
ancient branch of Aryan speech is made very interesting by the theory 
of Omalius, published in 1865, that the Aryan races are of European 
and not of Asiatic origin. i l 
Dr. José Dionisio Anchorena sends to the Smithsonian Institution a 
copy of his Gramatica Quechua, o del Idioma del Imperio de los Incas. 
Lima. 7 
Professor Huxley, in his lecture at the Kensington Museum, on Sat- 
urday, December 16, 1876, defined the boundaries of biology, stating 
that biologists surrendered all that part of the field which relates espe- 
cially to the history of man as a social and moral being. Anthropology 
has been defined as the “ biology of man;” but the restriction of the 
term “ biological anthropology ” to the application of Professor Huxley’s 
definition to mankind will suit the meaning given to this term by M. 
Toca in his opening lecture before the Institut d’Anthropologie. 
Another periodical, just started in Paris by MM. H. Gaidoz and E. 
Rolland, attests the growing interest in anthropological matters. It is 
called Mélusine, Revue de Mythologie, Littérature Populaire, Traditions, 
et Usages. While aiming to collect the myths and folk-lore of France 
in particular, it will cover the whole field of mythology and legend. 
The Rey. Stephen D. Peet, Ashtabula, O., has issued a circular of the 
Archeological Exchange Club, containing the conditions of membership. 
The object is to effect an exchange of fugitive publications on archzol- 
087. We hail with especial commendation this effort to make our 
Scattered archeologists better acquainted. 
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