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to several pounds. A more plausible explanation of their use is 
the one Mr. Bowers advances: he says, “ Those of pyramidal form 
were doubtless used in spinning, while others were used in games.” 
—E. A. BARBER. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL NeEws.—It has been impossible to obtain a 
programme of the German Scientific ogee. but reports of two 
very interesting communications have reac ed us. Professor 
Haeckel’s address on the evolution Aiea of the present day in 
its relation to science in general was an earnest reiteration of his 
theory of inheritance and adaptation, applying it to moral and 
mental phenomena. Professor Virchow read a paper On the 
Liberty of Science in Modern Thought. He congratulated his 
fellow workers that science had now obtained perfect liberty, and 
at the same time warned them not to lose their influence by mis- 
using it. He advocated the introduction of scientific instruction 
into the schools, but thought that great care should be used to 
introduce the results of science, and not mere unsubstantial 
‘theories such as the genealogical system of Professor Haeckel. 
The second international congress of Américanistes was held at 
Luxemburg, September 1oth—-13th. Papers on the mound builders 
and Pueblos were read by Messrs Barber, Robertson, Gillman, 
Peet, and Force; on the antiquities of Greenland and the primitive 
habitat of thé Eskimo by Messrs. Waldemar Schmidt and Rink; 
on hieroglyphics and ancient culture, by Leon de Rosny , Hyde 
Clarke, Maladier de Montjau, Allen Schwab, Malte-Brun, a 
Abbé Pipart, Dr. Leemans, etc.; on philology, by Messrs. Henry, 
Moore and Lucien Adams; on history, by Messrs. Brauvoisn and 
Nadal ; on the stone age, by M. Guimet. The next congress will 
be held in Brussels in 1879 
Occasionally papers of great value to anthropologists appear in 
journals not wholly devoted to their science. Among these 
Révue Scientifique is to be specially mentioned. In the number 
for January 13, 1877, M. Jouan writes upon Les Monuments poly- 
nesiens ; in that for February 3d, M. Quatrefages has a long paper 
= reviewing that portion of his late work, L’Espéce humaine, which 
refers to fossil man. The whole work in favorably noticed in the 
number for March 4th, by M. W. Ferrier. In the numbers for 
May 5th and 12th, Carl Vogt discusses at length the origin of 
man. The learned author takes issue with both Haeckel and 
Quatrefages, and, while advocating evolution, maintains that the 
former has erred quite as far in knowing too much as the latter has 
in his “ Je ne sais pas rien.” The same periodical for September 
contains quite full reports of the French Association. 
Two fields of anthropological research are so fully occupied at 
the present time that one almost despairs of keeping the run of 
— titles even. We refer to the seat of war and British India. Hap | 
-~ pily the latter field is well worked in Triibner’s last catalogue, to — 
which all must refer who would become familiar with the subject. 
_ The work of D. Mackensie Wallace on Russia, of W. R. London 
