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Broca; Sur la traduction des inscriptions cambodgiennes, by M. 
Harmand; Sur l’utilité de rédiger des instructions linguistiques, 
by M. Vinson; Sur un Manuscrit de M. Régis Gery, by M. G. de 
Mortillet ; Sur les Esthoniens, by M. Arthur Chervin; Sur l’eth- 
nologie de la Nouvelle Guinée, by M. Mantegazza; Sur la vision 
de la serie des nombres, by M. d’Abbadie; Sur le buste d’une 
jeune fille zoulon, by M. Paul Broca; Sur une anomalie regressive 
de la crosse de l’aorte chez une jeune fille zoulon, by M. Paul 
Broca; Le cerveau de l’assassin Prévost, by M. Paul Broca; 
Sur la monographie de la femme de la Cochinchine, by M. 
Mondiére; Sur les resultats d’une mission en Australie, by 
M. Cauvin; Sur les comptes de l’exposition des Sciences anthro- 
pologiques, by M. Issaurat; De différent instruments d’anthro- 
pométrie, by M. Paul Topinard; De l’influence du mariage sur la 
tendance au suicide, by M. Jacques Bertillon; Sur la génération 
au point de vue chronologique, by M. Réné de Semallé: Sur le 
voyage de M. Panagiotis Patagos en Asie Centrale, by M, Ch.-E. 
de Ujfalvy ; Sur l’usure spontanée des dents au point de vue eth- 
nique, by M. E. Magitot; Sur les Sépultures doubles de Thuizy 
(Marne), by M. Edouard Fourdrignier. 
Fossit. MEN AND THEIR MopERN REPRESENTATIVES.—Under 
the foregoing title, Principal J. W. Dawson has published, through 
Dawson Brothers, of Montreal, an ‘‘ Attempt to illustrate the 
characters and condition of prehistoric men in Europe, by those 
of the American Races.” In this volume we have really two 
books, upon entirely different subjects. What we may call book 
first is a parallel between the ancient town of Hochelaga, discov- 
ered by Cartier in 1534, and occupying the site of modern Mon- 
treal, and the ancient stone people of Europe. The author’s 
opportunities for following up a line of investigation initiated by 
Sir John Lubbock have been exceptionally good and he has not 
failed to use them, supplementing the data of Hochelaga with 
facts collected among our present red Indians. In the course of 
the argument the author throws out some pregnant suggestions; 
‘as, for example, the impossibility of maintaining the definite 
nomenclature of archzdlogy popular ten years ago; the similar- 
ity of the oldest populations of Europe, the river drift and the 
cave men, to American aborigines; the identity of Schoolcraft — 
Allegans with the Mound-builders; the anteriority of polished 
stone to rude stone folk; the spoke-like burial in the mounds as 
an imitation of lying in a teepec with the feet to the fire ; the com- 
munal characters of the Swiss palafittes ; the totemic significance 
of the engravings on bone in the European caves, &c. The por- 
tions of the volume designated here as the second book, are an 
argument to prove that all the events indicated by the discoveries 
of archzologists, in river-drifts, in caves, and in lake deposits, 
occurred in a few thousands of years, Without trying to follow 
Dr. Dawson in his discussion, it is but fair to say that his profound 
