1877.] Anthropology. EGT 
work on Comparative Anatomy, and also by Agassiz in his Contribu- 
tions to the Natural History of the United ‘States, and by both writers 
with acceptance, but without personal verification. My observations, 
which have been made upon embryos of several genera and species of 
serpents and lizards of this country, have not enabled me to confirm the 
observations of Dr. Weinland; on the contrary, I feel quite sure that 
no such structures exist in the foetuses of the genera Hutenia and Storeria 
among our snakes, nor in the foetus of the genus Scincus among 
lizards. But without expressing a doubt about the correctness of the 
observations of Dr. Weinland, I am compelled upon the basis of my own 
researches to call in question the universality of the rule; and as the 
indorsement of Professors Owen and Agassiz is without personal verifica- 
tion, I cannot regard them as having any positive value in the decision of 
such a question. — A. Sacer. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News. — Erganzungsheft 50 of Petermann’s 
Mittheilungen contains E. de Pruyssenaere’s account of his journeys 
and discoveries in the region of the White and the Blue Nile. The 
seventh chapter (pp. 18-27), relates to the population of the Upper 
White Nile, and especially to the Dengas. 
Murray issues a volume entitled, The Cradle of the Blue Nile; A Visit 
to the Court of King John of Ethiopia, by E. A. de Cosson. 
In Nature, April 26th, is a lengthy review of a paper on the races and 
tribes of the Chad Basin, in Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde, by 
Dr. G. Nachtigall. 
e have received from the author, W. L. Distant, two pamphlets, re- 
prints from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, entitled respect- 
ively, On the Term Religion as used in Anthropology; and, Our - 
Knowledge of the Nicobarians. ‘The same gentleman exhibited to the 
Institute, April 24th, photographs of the people of the Andaman and Ma- 
islands. 
The Journal of the Victoria Institute, vol. x., just issued, contains 
‘ome valuable articles reviewing the grounds of modern speculations, es- 
Pecially in England. 
Nos. 3 and 4 of Matériaux appear together. The principal com- 
munication of importance to students, outside of France, is that of M. 
nest Chantre, describing the collections of bronze implements exhibited 
m the last meeting of the Congress of Prehistoric Archæology, held dur- 
ing the past summer at Buda Pesth. 
_ +he Russian Geographical Society will publish a description of the 
Upper part of the Oxus, of the Hindoo Koosh, and of the Western Him- 
alayas. The work will be accompanied by ethnographical maps and 
Vocabularies. 
In The Academy for April 21st and 28th, Mr. Percy Gardiner reviews 
