484 General Notes. [July, 
cave in the island of Kagamil, one of the group known as the 
Islands of the Four Mountains, or Four Craters. These mum- 
mies were deposited in the National Museum in 1874, and quite 
extended notices were published at the time; but Mr. Dall’s pub- 
lication has brought the information into a permanent form. The 
heliotype plates are beautifully executed and greatly help the 
understanding of the text 
It gives us great pleasure to welcome the first number of Zhe 
American Antiquarian: A Quarterly Journal devoted to Early 
` American History, Ethnology and Archeology. Edited by the 
Rev. Stephen D. Peet, and published by Brooks, Schinkel & Co., 
Cleveland, Ohio. The leading article is upon Ancient Garden 
Beds of Michigan, by Bela Hubbard, illustrated by four plates, 
which the binder has carelessly inserted in the wrong order. The 
articlé of next importance is by the editor, upon the Discovery 
of the Ohio: Early Maps of the Great West. The other articles, 
which our space does not allow us to particularize, are all valua- 
ble materials to be worked up eventually into a comprehensive 
work on North American Archeology. 
Anales del Museo Nacional de Mexico, Entrega 3°, contains 
two archeological papers: “Un cincel de bronze de los antiguos 
Aztecas,” Sr. D. G. Mendoza, and “Codice Mendozino: Ensayo 
de descrifacion geroglifica,” per Señor Don Manuel Orozco y 
Ber 
la: the February number of the Yournal of the Anthropological 
Institute is a communication entitled “Customs of the New Cale- 
donian Women belonging to the Nancaushy Tiné, or Stuart’s 
Lake Indians, Natotin Tiné, or Babines, and Nantley Tiné, or 
Frazer’s Lake Tribe, from Information supplied by Gavin Hamil- 
ton, Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company Service. The 
same journal contains the report of the Anthropometric Com- 
mittee, with color-plates; The Ethnology of Germany, II; The 
Germans of Cæsar, H. H. Howorth; The Migrations of the Sax- 
ons, Part III, id.; The Croats, id.; Flint Flakes from Egypt, 
Capt. R. Burton; Notes on Socotra, Capt. F. M. Hunter; Aus- 
tralian Languages and Traditions, Rev. C. C. Greenw a Thomas 
Honery, Mr. McDonald, John Rowley, Dr. Creed, C. H. E. Car- 
michael. 
Mr. Francis Galton read a paper before the London Anthropo- 
logical Institute, April 30th, on composite portraits made by 
combining those of various persons into a single resultant figure. 
A good report of the method is given in The Academy, May II. 
In the same number is a brief report of a paper by Mr. C. Stani- 
land Wake on “The Origin of the Classificatory System of Re- 
lationships used among Primitive People.” The author takes 
issue with Mr. Morgan’s explanation of the classificatory system 
as. saving originated in the practice of marriage among con- 
sanguine 
