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knowledge of paleontology has enabled him to present the 
brachy-chronic view of archeology more forcibly than Mr. 
Southall or any other recent writer who has made the at- 
tempt. 
GESTURE Sicns.—Col. Garrick Mallery has issued, for collabo- 
rators only, a limited number of a quarto pamphlet of 329 pages, 
entitled, “A Collection of Gesture Signs and Signals of the 
North American Indians, with some comparisons. Washington, 
Government Printing Office, 1880.”". The work will not be pub- 
lished permanently in its present shape; but the descriptions are ~ 
presented for the verification of observations, verbal corrections, 
and to secure accurate classification and comparison. Every con- 
tributor is thus enabled to revise his own work, as the volume is 
divided and arranged according to a scheme of linguistic families 
and subordinate languages or tribes. The author has taken the 
liberty to use his own judgment as to the admission or rejection 
of authorities, drawing a hard and fast line against all loose gen- 
eralizers and vague talkers about what they have not examined in 
person over and over again. The amount of patient, critical dis- 
cernment necessary to render such a work really valuable can be 
appreciated only by a careful study of Colonel Mallery’s prefatory 
remarks, pp. 1-7, in which the principles which have guided him 
are clearly set forth. 
Report on Inpian AFFAIRS.—Strange as it may seem, scholars 
seldom consult the report of the Commissioner on Indian Affairs 
for information concerning the Indians. In preparing his colossal 
work on the Native Races of the Pacific States, Mr. H. H. Ban- 
We find reason to qualify our statement, also, in the report of 
Commissioner Hayt, for 1879. On page 118, Agent B. M. 
Thomas gives a list of all the inhabited Pueblos.in New Mexico 
and Arizona, with their population, and an altogether too short 
sketch of their government. It is to be hoped that those who 
have the best possible opportunities of studying our aborigines 
will make better use of their time in the future. 
TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEw ZEALAND InstI- 
TUTE— Vol. x1 of this valuable series for 1879, issued May, 1880, 
is not devoid of interest to the anthropologist, as the accompany- 
ing list of papers will show: 
Notes on Port Nicholson and the natives in 1839. By Major Charles Heaphy. 
On the ignorance of the ancient New Zealander of the use of projectile weapons. 
By Coleman Phillips. 
Contributions towards a better knowledge of the Maori race. By W. Colenso. 
otes on an ancient manufactory of stone implements at the mouth of the Otokai 
creek, Brighton, Otago. By Prof. Julius von Haast. 
otes on the color-sense of the Maori. By James W. Stack. 
