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traffic by land and by water had begun to flourish. The dead 
were entombed under such conditions as to give an insight into 
the religious convictions of the people. On page 293 is the preg- 
nant sentence, that each palafitte hut was inhabited by one family, 
and the whole settlement was not a community with common store 
houses, like a Mexican pueblo, This Neolithic culture is derived 
from Asia, and, after summing up the evidence, Mr. Dawkins re- 
gards the people as of the Iberian stock. They were succeeded 
by the Celts, who were, par-excellence, the Bronze age race. The 
various questions which have sprung out of the remains, as the 
origin of bronze, tin mines, the duration, culture, and religion of 
the Bronze age are elaborately worked up in chapters x and x1. 
The following and closing chapters treat of the Iron age, and the 
overlap of history, under which last head the influences of Egyp- 
tian, Assyrian, Phoenician, Etruscan, and Greek civilization upon 
that of Western Europe are briefly discussed. 
It is to be regretted that our limited space will not permit us to 
enter more elaborately into the merits of this work, nor to speak 
of its defects any further than to draw attention to oversights, and 
a lack of consistency here and there in the proof-reading of an 
otherwise very handsome volume. If Mr. Dawkins has not 
already thought of the matter, we would call attention to the 
similarity of the flames from the head of the Dol-ar-Marchnant 
(page 305) to the speaking girdles and other like signs for voice 
and emotion in the works of Stephens and Hable. 
THe AnrHRopocoaicaL Society oF Paris—The Bulletins of 
this world-renowned society from January to April of the past 
year, have reached us through the Smithsonian Institution. In 
addition to the lists of officers and members, proceedings and 
correspondence, the following papers are given in full or in 
abstracts : ; 
Sur la signification de la croix dit svastika et d'autres 
emblémes de méme_ nature, by Girard de Rialle; Sur les 
Lapons, by M. Mantegazza; Sur les Migrations en Egypte, by 
Emilie Soldi; Sur les Boschimans et les Hottentots, by 
Feraud; Inventaire des Monuments Mégalithiques de France : 
Report of a sub-Committee, composed of MM. Henry Martin, 
Daubrée, G. De Mortillet, Paul Broca, Cartailhac, Chantre, Leguay, 
Pomel, Salmon, du Sommerard, de Berthélemy, Fabsan, Trutat, 
and Viollet le Duc. [This is a detailed enumeration by depart- 
_ ments of all the dolmens, menhirs, aleignments, cromlechs, cup 
stones, and other archeological localities throughout France]; 
Crane Australien Brachycephalique, by M. Cauvin; Méthode 
trigonometrique: le goniométre d’inclinaison et l’orthogone, by 
Dr. aul Broca; Sur un questionnaire anthropométrique a rem- 
plir dans les ecoles du departement de Loir-et-Cher, by M. Jacques 
Bertillon ; Le developpement du cerveau chez les enfants du pre- 
mier age, by M. J. Parrot ; Sur le goniométre flexible, by M. Paul 
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