the distribution of indus 



Anthropology in Great Britain.— We are in receipt of the ' 

 May number of the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, and of the fifteenth volume of the 

 Transactions of the Victoria Institute. The former has an unu- 

 sual amount of local matter, but the following papers will interest 

 American readers : 



On the a 



The Victoria Institute volume contains a paper by Dr. James 

 C. Southall on Pliocene man in America, accompanied with 

 remarks by J. VV. Dawson, the Duke of Argyll, VV. Boyd Daw- 

 kins, T. McK. Hughes and others. 



Anthropological Notes. — Professor Cyrus Thomas writes: 

 " Applying to the inscription on the Tablet of the Cross the same 

 method I heve used to determine the order in which the charac- 

 ters of the Manuscript Troano are to be read, I discovered that 

 the inscription is to be read in double columns from the top 

 downwards. The demonstration of this I will give in my paper 



on the Manuscript Troano." Col. F. F. Milder, of St. Louis, 



is the author of pamphlet No. 6, published by the Missouri His- 

 torical Society, describing a remarkable vase containing de- 

 vices indicative of sun-worship. In the Bulletin of the Minne- 

 sota Academy of Natural Sciences, i88i, two papers of interest 

 to our fraternity will be found : "Is the Dakota related t, the 

 Indo-European languages," by A. W. Williamson ; " Classifica- 

 tion of languages," by W. W. Folwell. In the last volume of 



the Proceedings of the National Museum, pp. 455— 4=5 S - wil1 ,)C 

 found a list of all the anthropologic,! publications of Dr. Charles 



Rau. Under date of May 21, 1882, Mr. Henry L. Higgi«## 



presents his report as treasurer of the Archaeological Institute ot 

 of America, showing a receipt of $12,560.95, and a balance of 

 $2649.35. The following very important observation is made 

 and should be seriously considered : " If the work is to be con- 

 tinued during the present year, it is apparent that the executive 

 committee must be supplied with means in addition to what they 



will receive from the subscriptions of annual members."- R °k" 



ert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati, are the publishers of "Sheas 

 Mississippi Series." 



