68 General Notes. [ January, 
ANTHROPOLOGY.? 
MATERIAUX POUR L’HIsToIRE DE L) HomMME.—We are in receipt 
of Livraisons, three, four and five of this eminent periodical, and 
would call attention to the following articles: M. Gaudry has 
just published at Paris “ Matériaux pour |’Histoire des temps 
quaternaires : second fascicule, F. Savy, 1880, p. 63 a 82. Pl. x 
xv.” A short review of this work will be found in Matériaux, 
pp. 112-118, in which especial attention is invited to the occur- 
rence of Saiga tartarica in the remains of the reindeer period. 
On page 127, is an abstract of a paper by H. Fischer in Archiv fiir 
Anthropologie wpon the so-called Amazon stones and upon that 
fabled people. The author dwells especially upon the researches 
of M. Barbosa Rodrigues upon the tributaries of the Amazon, em- 
bodied in a work entitled, “ Antiquités des Amazones, arm 
instruments en pierre. A stone charm perforated tonpitidiaeliye 
called muirakitan, is spoken of as having great potency, resem- 
bles closely a series from Porto Rico, described by the editor of 
these notes in the Smithsonian Report, 1876, p. 378. fig. 30. 
On page 201 is reproduced a paper prepared by J. J. da Silva 
Amada, professor in the school of medicine of Lisbon, upon the 
ethnogeny of Portugal. This publication was very timely, as it 
placed the readers of the Révue ad’ Anthropologie and of Matériaux 
in possession of sufficient knowledge concerning the general his- 
tory of Portugal to listen intelligently to the papers before the In- 
ternational Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Arche- 
ology held this year in Lisbon 
A brief sketch of German anthropology begins on p. 220, but 
the only part of any importance is a very interesting account of 
the Kanikars, by M. Jagor. These people are a diminutive ne- 
groid race in Southern India, having crispy hair and living in 
huts among the trees, when they are in danger from tigers, wild 
boars, or elephants. 
M. Piette proposes, p. 233, a new nomenclature, for archiethnolo- 
‘gic races. Primarily we have the division into agrentic (hunters) 
and georgic (tillers of the soil.) The former is again divided into 
the barylithic and the leptolithic; the latter into the neolithic, the 
calcentic, and the protosideric. The editor of Matériaux wisel 
remarks that the public will decide whether any of these terms 
are ee chosen. 
_ _* ANTHROPOLOGY IN AustRIA—The Mittheilungen der Anthropo- 
logischen. Gescellschaft in Wien, Band x, Nr. 1-7, contains the follow- 
ing papers: Bericht tiber die Versammlung osterreichischer An- 
thropologen und be ena ah ge am 28 und 29 Juli, 1879, 
zu Laibach, by Dr. M. Much; Weitere methodische Studien zur 
Kranio-und Kephalometrie, by Prof. Moriz Benedikt; Die Sage 
von Orpheus, Orfen des Rhodope-Bulgaren, by Prof. Geitler; Die 
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