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Maryland and Virginia abundant evidence of ancient hill tribes 
inhabiting these regions burying their dead in rude cists in stone 
cairns. 
Foreicn.—The department of ethnology now called Demog- 
raphy, represented in England by Francis Galton and in France 
by M. Bertillon, is becoming more and more popular in its charac- 
ter. A Congress of Demography was held at the Trocadero Palace 
from July 5-9, and discussed the following topics: Census of 
Population; Registers of Population; Organization of Statistics ; 
Registration of Births and Deaths, &c. Dr. Daniel Wilson, of 
Toronto, said at the Buffalo meeting of the American Association 
that no country in the world afforded a better opportunity of sub- 
mitting racial problems to the test of figures than our own. 
tor E. Bessels is publishing, in German, a work on his re- 
searches in Greenland. About thirty pages will be devoted to 
the Greenland Eskimo and will be most beautifully illustrated. 
By the way, will some one tell us the origin of the word Keralit, 
used by old writers on the Greenland Eskimo? Is it a corrup- 
tion of the Danish Skreling ? 
Dr. Alexander Ecker has published in Braunschweig a quarto 
pamphlet of twenty-one pages entitled: Ueber abnorme Behaarung 
des Menschen insbesondere über die sogenannten Haarmenschen. 
Gratulationschrift Herrn Carl Theodor von Siebold zur Feier 
seines 50 jahrigen Doctorjubilaums am 22 April, 1878, darge- 
bracht von Alexander Ecker. A few of the illustrations appeared 
in a late number of Archiv, but in its present form the treatise 
forms one of the most entertaining anthropological articles of the 
year. The same author has published in Freiburg a quarto pam- 
phlet on Lapland and the Laplanders. 
Archivo iper L’Antropologia, 1878. Part I contains the fol- 
lowing original papers: Suture anomale dell’ osso malare in set 
