1 882.] Geology and Paleontology. 2 



Anthropology in France. — The unusual amount of mat 

 relating to our own country precludes giving more than a bi 

 outline of what is doing abroad. The Bulletins dc la Sociiti 

 Anthropologic de Paris reports the following discussions in the 

 fasciculus for 1881: 



Bordier, M.— Calotte cerebrale d'un Esquimau, p. 16. 

 Chuu/unski, M. — Splanchnologie d'un orang, p. 19. 



-une Jacques Inaudi. 



Tenkate.H. F. C:— Cianes <le mu-ee de Leyde, p. 37. 



De Torok, A.— Crane du jeune gorille de m usee Broca, p. 46. 



Hayem, Professoi — ] 1 1 •. \ue anthropologique, p. 72. 



Ra! purdin. 1 icien — \^t de pierre 1 ms 1, S.l . , nti 1, ; {>. 115-160, 



The Revue d'Anthropologie, vol. iv., part iv., contains the f 

 lowing original papers and reviews : 



Broca, Paul.— La torsion de I'Humerus et le tropometre, p. 577. 

 • P- 593- 



Napoli, 1 88 1.] 

 Zabarowski, —.—Revue preh 



SoMi's -I.es arts meeonnus;" Dr. Nehrings 



Manouvrier,°L. -Review of French and Italian journals. 

 Deniker,—.— Review of Dr. II,nt<is •• he ia queue chez l'homme." 

 Vars, Ed.— Revue russe. [Examines M. Bogdanoff's craniological works.] 



At the close of the number is an extended bibliography, too 

 long to be reproduced here; but the important titles will appear 

 in the next Smithsonian Annual Report. 



Correction. — By an oversight, for which we are extremely 

 sorry, the title of the paper by Professor Cyrus Thomas on the 

 Manuscript Troano, read at the American Association, was omitted 

 from the list. 



GEOLOGY / AND PALJEONtf OLOGY. 



Marsh on the Classification of the Dinosauria. — Pro- 

 fessor Marsh regards the group as a sub-class, and divides it into 

 five orders, viz . Sam />oda, s} s ,v , /, Ornu \ poda, Thcropoda 

 and Hallopoda ; the first three herbivorous, the last carnivorous, 

 riie Sauropoda include A/lantosanms, Camarasanrns, Cctiosaurus 

 and other forms having five digits on each of the limbs,and limbs 

 nearly equal; Scclid saunts, t'/vltcosanrus and others having also 

 twenty digits, but with small fore limbs and a post-pubis, form the 

 toferStegosaitria; ( \impt not , <, Lr< s vn s, 4' < m don, etc., having 

 five digits in manus and three in pes, with small fore limbs, are 

 included in the 0; nitlu p 'da. w hilt J /.gal >* ntrus, . Utosaurus, Zanc- 



