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ANTHROPOLOGY.! 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—Mr. F. W. Putnam, in the Nation, 
for January 3d, reviews Mr. Prime’s work on pottery with refer- 
ence to the north-west coast of America. Sabin’s Bibliotheca 
Americana, which most of our readers know to be the standard ° 
authority upon books pend to America, has reached its fiftieth 
number with the word Jamaic 
Dr. Georg Fischer, of F sibune coninbites to Archiv für Anthro- 
pologie, &c.,1877,III,an able paper upon mineralogy as an auxiliary 
to archæology. Some months ago this distinguished author pub- 
lished a work upon the same subject, at the same time calling 
upon those who are interested in the matter to send him frag- 
ments of jade implements, or their shavings removed from the 
unsculptured side with a diamond saw. The article above alluded 
to gives especial attention to Mexican jades. 
Dr. Gustav Brühl continues his brochures entitled “Die Cul- 
turvolker alt-Amerikas,’ Part V-VII, relates to monuments and 
antiquities in Colombia, Peru, and the valleys of the Colorado and 
Rio Grande; Part VIII to writing; and eit ie to chronology. 
Issued from New York, Cincinnati and St. L 
From January 15th to March Ist, in the halls of the Louvre 
set apart for the exhibition of antiquities, the anthropological 
ee eR ee ee eS eee ae ee a a ae ee Oe ee ee aaa 
by the French government, will be displayed. On the eighth of 
January, Mr. C. C. Jones, of New York, made a communication 
to the Lond. Anth. Inst. upon American bird-mounds. Mr. Wm. 
_ Owens contributes to Lippincott s Magazine for January an article 
on the Folk-lore of the Southern negroes. 
~ Asroap.—The dying out of the Polynesian races, Sir David 
Wedderburn in Fortnightly ie gd Science Monthly, Supple- 
ment, III); The Races of the Danube, John Fiske in At/antic 
Monthly, April; Beiträge zur gern oe Anthropologie der 
_ Deutschen, Virchow in Abhandlungen der Konigl. Academie zu 
Berlin; the first six parts of the Mittheilungen der Anth. Gesell- — 
-schaft in Wien, contain very able articles upon Contemporaneity _ 
_ of Men with the Cave-bear in Mahren, On the use of stone 
Fae Te Re PTE EF) ACA tLe SBR IES Sear ROR PRE ACEH, Se VEE OLD at a S eRe TE PS ET a ae ee a ODE eR EDS ee MMe ea oy TEAT ee EVES ge Mr OE ET Ge ke A A eh og ee an SS SR Nee TT ee T A Y Oe E 
the evidence as to the Antiquity of Man in Great Britain, in 
Journal of the Anthropological Institute for Nov. (an exceedingly 
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