70 : General Notes. [January, 
ANTHROPOLOGY IN Mexico.—The Anales del Museo Nacional de 
Mexico, has reached the second part of Vol. 1. This number is 
devoted entirely to Mexican Archeology, containing the follow- 
ing papers by the three most eminent specialists in the Republic: 
1. Historia de los Mexicanos por sus pinturas; articulo por el Sr. 
D. Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta. 2. La piedra del Sol, segundo 
estudio, por el Sr. D. Alfredo Chavero (continuacion). 3. Codice 
Mendozino, Ensayo de descifracion geroglifica, por el Sr. D. 
Manuel Orozco y Berra (continuacion). 
BRITISH PERIODICAL LITERATURE AND ANTHROPOLOGY.—Ab- 
sence from one’s sources of information for a few months 
accumulates literary material very rapidly. The three London 
periodicals, Mature, The Atheneum,and The Academy, gather up 
nearly all that is valuable in British anthropology and we give 
below the titles of articles and reviews that have appeared in 
these Journals from June 1 to October 1. 
Reference to Zhe Atheneum. The Survey of Palestine, June 
19. Hittite Notes, by W. St. C. Boscawen, August 14. The 
Ethnical Relations of the Typical Man of South Wales, by Mr. 
F. W. Rudler, opening address before the Subsection of ‘Anthro- 
pology in the British Association, also a review of Prof. Boyd 
Dawkins’ address on “ Primeval Man,” and Mr. Francis Galton’s 
lecture on ‘‘ Mental Imagery,” coe Ne r 4. 
Reference to Mature. A Scottish Crannog, with illustrations, 
May 6th and 13th. [“A full report of the Lochlee Crannog is 
given in Vol. xu of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquity 
of Scotiand, and in Vol. 1 of the collections of the Ayrshire 
and Wigtownshire Archzological Association.” ] Abstract Report 
of Prof. Flower’s Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy of Man, 
delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, May 20th, May 
27th, June 3d. Cup Stones, Cup-marked Stones, or Cups and 
Rings, May 27th, June 3d, June toth, July 8th, Reviews of 
Prof. Dawkins “ Early Man in Britain and his place in the Ter-. 
tiary Period,” and of Principal J. W. Dawson’s “ Fossil Men and 
their Modern Representatives,” May 27th. Review of Col. 
Mallery’s Sign Language, June 3d. Review of Prof. Humphrey’s 
Rede Lecture on Man, June 3d. Tribute to Dr. Paul Broca, July 
29th. Address of F. W. Rudler, V. P. of Department of Anthro- 
pology, British Association, on the population of Southern Wales, 
September 2 
References “to The Academy. South European Folk-Lore, 
August 21st. The Earliest Rock-Hewn Monument in Asia 
Minor, by A. H. Sayce, August 28th. : 
ComMPARATIVE THEOLOGY.—Under this title we include all dis- 
cussions concerning the opinions which the different peoples of 
our globe have held respecting the first causes of phenomena, 
the nature of the soul and the phases of its existence after death, 
morality, worship, and sacred records. The latest utterance 
