486 a General Notes. [July, 
every sagt = something from such able men as Mr. 
A. J. Ellis 
The third Cian of Matériaux contains the following articles 
of general import: Tombeaux du temps des habitations lacustres 
en Suisse, Rodé; Huitieme congrés annuel de la Societé Alle- 
mande d’ ‘anthropologie, by Graf Gundaker Wurmbrand; L’age 
de la pierre dans les souvenirs et les superstitions populaires, E. 
Cartailhac; Armes et Objets de parure des cabinets de |’Univer- 
sitié jaguellone à ao, Ernest, Chantre; Le Musée des an- 
tiquités nationales de Saint Germain-en- Laye, H. Mazard. 
Attention is called to the following titles: An inquiry into the 
reputed poisonous nature of the arrows of the South-sea Island- 
ers, by Dr. A. B. Messer, Jour. of the Anthrop, Institute, Feb., 
1878; The Ethnology of Germany, Parts II and III, H. H 
Howorth, id.; Australian Languages, &c., several papers, id. ; 
Flint Flakes from Egypt, by Capt. R. F. Burton, id.; The Spread 
of the Slavs, Part I: The Croats, by H. H. Howorth, id. ; Notes 
the Malayo-Polynesians, by the Rev. S. J. Whitmee, «id. ; 
Amusements of the English People, by G. Turner, Ninri 
Century, Dec.; English Folk-lore, Peika Hour, Jan.; La Chro- 
nologie prehistorique, &c., Revue Scientifique, Jan. 19; L'histoire 
de la p et la science < la nature, by M. DuBois Rey- 
mon ; Primitive Property M. La aveleye, translated by G. 
RE "Marriott and published T McMillan & Co.; The Verhand- 
lungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie Ethnologie, 
und Urgeschichte for 1877, contains very important contributions 
to general anthropology; Einige Bemerkungen über die urge- 
schichte Nord deutschlands, Das Ausland, No. 8, 1878; Review 
of Schliemann’s work, id, No. 7; Les trois premières Années de 
l'Enfant, by Bernard Perez (Balliére, Paris); The Art of prehis- 
toric Greece, by A. H. Sayce, Academy, March 2d; Art-weaving 
among ‘the ‘Ancients, by T. Nelson Dale, Penn Monthly, Feb.; 
Le Khedive et L'Egypte, by M. Van der Berg; Révue Scientifique, 
Jan. 26th; War rites of the Zulu-Kaffirs, United Service Magazine, 
Nov. 3d; The Leading Religions of the World, by Sir P. Col- 
quhoun, a paper read “before the Royal Society of Literature, 
Feb. 27th; Die orientalische Frage als cultur-Frage, by Fredrich 
von Hellwald, Das Ausland No. 5,6 and 7; Primitive culture of 
the Babylonians, by W. >t. Chad Boscawen, reviewed in Academy, 
March oth; Culturgeschichte des Orients unter den Chalifen, by 
A. Von Kremer, reviewed in Academy, Feb. 2d and March 16th ; 
pee in Northern Hindustan, by J. Muir, /ndian Antiquary, 
Nov., 1877; Slavonians and Rajpoots, by Sir Henry Maine, 
Nineteenth Century, Dec.; Tableau des Progrés faits dans l’etude 
. des a de |’ one et des traditions religieuses de l'Orient 
pendant les annees 1875 and 1876, by Ernest Renan, Annales 
Oe Goines Nov. 12th; New Zealand and the South- 
