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which the anthropologist is daily busy with. I refer to Professor J. 

 P. Lesley's " Man's Origin and Destiny sketched from the platform 

 of Physical Sciences," published in Boston by George H. Ellis ; 

 and " The League of the Iroquois and other Legends, from the 

 Indian Muse," issued by S. C. Griggs & Co. of Chicago. The 

 former is the second edition of a course of lectures delivered be- 

 fore the Lowell Institute in the winter of 1865 and 1866. The 

 work has long been before the public and has achieved a perma- 

 nent success. The style is highly poetical, indeed it is at times 

 painfully so. The burden of the argument is nowhere clearly 

 stated, but the theme progresses by a series of surprises, a plan 

 that is agreeable to the audience room, but not to the reader who 

 wishes to digest. It is needless to state that Professor Lesley 

 can tell us nothing new, either of man's origin or of his destiny. 



Mr. Hathaway's poem is an attempt to give in a series of 

 pictures the story of the origin of the Iroquois confederation and 

 especially all that relates to Hayowentha. We hail with delight 

 any and every attempt to preserve in prose or verse the sacred 

 lore of our aborigines. The Bureau of Ethnology at Washington 

 has during the past two years collected a hundred or more new 

 myths, which will be published in the contributions to North 

 American Ethnology. 



Anthropology in Great Britain. — Trubner & Co. announce a 

 work to be completed in ten volumes, entitled, " The Social 

 History of the Races of Mankind." The ivth and concluding 

 number of Volume x, of the Journal of the Anthropological 

 Institute of Great Britain and Ireland gives us the following 

 original papers. 

 Biddoe, Dr. John. — On anthropological colour phenomena in Belgium and else- 



Rowbotham, —.—Certain reasons for believing that the art of music in prehistoric 

 times passed through three distinct stages of development, each characterized 

 by the invention of a new form of v iges InTariably 



succeeded one another in the same 01 the World. 



Milne, John.— 1 he Stone Age in Japan; with notes on Recent Geological changes 



Tylor, E. B.— Priident^Annual Address. 



Six pages of President Tylor's address are devoted to a very 

 nattering review of Yarrow's " Mortuary Customs," and Col. 

 Mallery's " Introduction to the study of the Sign Language 

 among the North American Indians." 



GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 

 A new genus of Tillodonta.— An interesting new form of this 

 sub-order has been found in the Catathlcsus beds (probably the 

 Puerco formation) of New Mexico. It differs widely from the 

 two genera hitherto known, Ancki A -non. Owing 



to the absence of the superior dental series it is not possible to 

 be sure which tooth is the canine. The inferior dental formula 



