750 ueneral JNotes. Lbeptemoer, 



Queres Pueblos on or near the Rio Grande, north-east of the 

 former — Santa Ana, Cia, Silla, San Felipe, San Domingo and 

 Cochiti. 



Ziifd family. —At Zuni Pueblos. 



Moqui towns. — The language of one of the Moqui towns, 

 Tehua, has given name to a linguistic family, the other towns Tsit- 

 sumovi, Hualpi, Mushanganevi, Shebualavi, Shongapavi and 

 Oraevi speak Shoshoni dialects. Mr. Gatschet is a very patient, 

 scrupulous student, and his labors in disentangling the Indian 

 languages of our continent, cannot receive too high a praise. 



Geiger's Development of the Human Race— From the 

 press of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., of Boston, appears a work 

 entitled "Contributions to the History of the Development of the 

 Human Race," by Lazarus Geiger, translated by David Asher, and 

 forming volume xx of the English and Foreign Philosophical 

 Library. One not acquainted with the studies and works of Dr. 

 Geiger would not guess what the volume is about. It should be 

 named, the contribution which the study of language makes to 

 our knowledge of the early history of man. From this point of 

 departure the author seeks to unravel such mysteries as the evolu- 

 tion of technique, the color sense, the origin of writing, the dis- 

 covery of fire, and the primitive home of the Indo-Euiopeans. It 

 maybe that the author generalizes too hastily here and there. 

 For instance, the absence of allusions to fragrance in the Bible 

 previous to the "Song of Songs," is supposed to teach that the 

 sense of odor is not innate in man but has gradually had an 

 evolution. In a much stronger sense the perception of colors has 

 grown upon the human familv, and this accounts for the lack of 

 all mention of the color blue in the Rig Vida, the Zendavesta, 

 the Bible, and the Homeric Poems. Indeed, Dr. Geiger lays 

 down a law as to colors, that indifference with respect to the in- 

 termediate ones rises as we approach primeval ages, to an ever 

 increasing degree, until at length only the outermost extremes, 

 black and red, are left. 



The freshness of thought and the suggestiveness of these 

 lectures render them one of the most valuable contributions to 

 our modern anthropological literature. 



The Smithsonian Report for 1880. — The restriction of Con- 

 gress as to the number of pages in this time-honored publication 

 having been removed, the volume for 1880, though somewhat de- 

 layed, appears in an enlarged form, having 772 pages. The con- 

 tributions to anthropology occupy the usual space in the volume, 

 although many original papers were crowded out. In the report 

 of the secretary mention is made of Mr. Frank Cushing s resi- 

 dence among the Zuhis, Col. Stevenson's collections among the 

 Pueblos, Ober's researches n\ the West Indies, Dall and Beans 

 expedition to Alaska, Boehmer's index to the Smithsonian pub- 



