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1877.] Anthropology. 691 
The Journal of the Anthropological Institute announces for the August 
number the ollowing pape frs of general interest : Primitive Agriculture, 
A. W. Buckland; Non-Sepulchral Rude Stone Monuments, M. T. Wal- 
house; The Himalayan Origin of the Magyars, Hyde Clarke; The 
Brain Weight of some Chinese and Pelew Islanders, Dr. Crochley Clap- 
ham ; Right-Handedness, James Shaw; The Mental Progress of Ani- 
mals during the Human Period, James Shaw. 
During the meeting of the British Association in Plymouth, excur- 
sions were made to Totnes, Torquay, and Brixham caves. The opening 
address before the geological section, by Mr. Pengelly, was an elabo- 
rate report of the exploration of caves in the vicinity of Plymouth, in- 
cluding the Orestin caverns, Kent's Hole, Yealm Bridge caverns, the 
Ash Hole, Brixham Cavern, Windmill Hell, and Ansty’s Cave. The 
following papers were among those read before the anthropological de- 
partment: Francis Galton, On a More Accurate and Extensive Method 
of Observations on those Groups of Men who are sufficiently Similar in 
their Mental Characters or in their Physiognomy, or in Both, to admit 
of Classification ; Dr. Beddoe, On the Bulgarians; Dr. Phéné, On the 
District of Mycenx, and its Early Inhabitants; Park Harrison, On 
Characters found in the Sides of the Tunnels driven into the Chalk of 
Sussex ; Mr. Sorby, On the Coloring Matter of the Human Hair; Miss 
A. W. Buckland, Ethnological Hints afforded by the Stimulants of 
Ancient and Modern Savages; Mr. A. “Simpson, Who are the Zaparoz, 
a Tribe of Ecuador; Mr. Hunter, On the Natives of Socotra; B. Harts- 
horne, Ancient People and Irrigation Works in India; Professor Rol- 
leston, On the Rationale of Brachycephaly and Dolicocephaly ; Artifi- 
cial Deformation of the Head; The Fauna and Flora of Prehistoric 
Times. There were about thirty papers read before this department. 
The American Association had such a poor showing of anthropologists 
on the first day that the subsection was merged into the section of 
_ biology. The members came in a little later, and Monday, August 31st, 
was assigned to them. The opening address of the president, Dr. 
Daniel Wilson, of Toronto, was partly a résumé of anthropological 
Science, and partly an invitation to cultivate the speaker’s peculiar field, 
namely, the ethnological problems that are being worked out on the 
American continent by the mingling of many races under various cli- 
matic and social conditions. Among the papers read are the following: 
_ The American Indians of North America, Henry C. Carrington; All 
_ Life conditionally Immortal, William Bross; Additional Facts con- 
_ erning Artificial Perforations of the Cranium in Ancient Mounds in 
Michigan, Henry Gilman; Introduction to the Study of Indian Lan- 
guages, J. W. Powell; Report on the Exploration of the Graves of the 
Mound Builders in Scott and Mississippi Counties, Missouri ; Some Ob- 
servations on the Skull of the Comanches, T. O. Summers. Colonel 
Garrick Mallery read a very elaborate paper on the probability that 
