156 | General Notes. [ February 
Remarks on Mr. Mackenzie Cameron’s theory respecting the Kahui Tepua. By 
James W. Stack. 
Pronouns and other barat fossil words pecombae with phere and non-Aryan 
languages of Hindostan and Bondens = ae urnbull Thomson 
Maori connection. J. Turnbull Thom 
ASIATIC CULTURE IN Asiana: at No. 6, Vol. 1x of the Cana- 
dian Naturalist, Prof. John Campbell, of Montreal, attempts to 
cassians, on the border of Europe and Asia, Koriens, the 
Japanese and other peninsular people of Asia, the Aleutians Kadi- 
agmuts, Dakotas, Iroquois, Cherokee-Choctaws, Muyscas, Peru- 
vians, and Chilenos of America, The author sets out from the 
labors of Hyde Clarke, “to whom,” it is said, “ belongs the most 
of the discovery which bids fair to revolutionize the science of 
ethnology.” The paper ida exhibits a vast amount of patient 
research ; but, after all, we fail to see in many of the words 
eomah of resemblance eS aire identity. 
A New PeriopicaL.—On the 3d of July, 1880, the first num- 
ber of a periodical with the title of Sczence was issued in New 
York, under the editoral charge of Mr. John Michels. Several 
valuable anthropological papers have appeared in its columns: 
Fragmentary notes on the Eskimo of Cumberland sound, by 
Ludwig Kumlien; Reports of Ethnological papers at the Ameri- 
can Association, and notes scattered here and there ona variety 
of subjects. On page 205 is given Major Powell’s vice-presiden- 
tial address on the Wyandotte government before the American 
Association. 
SkIn Furrows OF THE Hanp.—New anatomical characters are 
being brought constantly within the anthropological area. 
a few months ago the relative length of the ring-finger and the 
fore-finger was added to the list of marks for observers. Mr. 
Henry Faulds of Tsukipi Hospital, Tokio, Japan, has commenced 
in Nature, of October 28th, a series of papers on the ethnological 
value of careful observations relating to the finger marks on an- 
cient pottery, to those of criminals, and of the anthropoid apes. 
ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE Caucasus.—One of the neatest pieces of 
ethnographic work which it has been our good fortune to — 
is a paper in No. 1x of Petermann’s Mitthetlungen, on the above- 
mentioned subject, prepared by N. v. Seidlitz. The article is 
- made up chiefly of tables of statistics upon the almost hopelessly 
mixed Indo-European, Caucasic and Mongolian peoples of this 
region. A colored map eH the tribal distribution will .be 
found at the end of the n 
PoPuULATION OF THE fone recline Supplement of 
Petermann's Mittheilungen: contains Behm Wagner's “ Die 
Bevélkerung der Erde, vi.” Although the ‘gee part of this 
pamphlet of x—132 pages belongs to the statisticians, the 
ethnologist will find enough material for comparative study to 
make it worth his while to give it his attention. 
