488. General Notes. [June, 
finds its way into the Archiv fir Anthropologie. The first and 
second quarterly parts of the thirteenth volume close the year 
1880. The volume consists of original papers, shorter commu- 
nications, reviews, and reports of meetings. 
The original contributions are as follows: 
The occurrence of a tail on human beings, pp. 42, 1 table, by Dr. Max Bartels, 
met 
of Berlin. 
2. Monuments and localities with which the myth os Me thus is Fae 
communication to the An or Ri Society of Kiel, March 16, 1880. This 
ange is tame, upon a passe n the Germania of p Reon Pith 40.] pp. 
o, by Heinrich Handelm 
z acinar HS ‘ Richard bidiee. 
4. Contribution to a Serena: ke the European races. I. With a table of curves, 
by Professor J. Kollm bP 
Quite extended reviews appear of Mook’s “ Prehistoric Egypt,” 
Hart’s “Stone implements in the Museum of Rio Janeiro,’ 
Molon’s “ Ligurians,” Habel’s “Sculptures of Santa Lucia,” 
Rau’s “Palenque Tablet,” and “ Archeological collections in the 
National Museum,” Bell’s “ Jungle Life,” Marty’s “ Color Sense,” 
Emmert’s “ Eye and Skull,” and Valentini’ s “Calendar Stone.” 
A supplement of 160 pages contains a stenographic report of 
the eleventh general meeting of the German Society of Anthro- 
pology, Ethnology and Prehistory in Berlin, August, 1880. Nos. 
g, 10 and 11 of Correspondenz-Blait give an account of the organ- 
ization, a list of the members, a résumé of the proceedings, and a 
catalogue of works presented at the meetin 
ANTHROPOLOGY IN France.—The Revue - d' Anthropologie for 
January of the current year, furnishes the following contributions 
to our knowledge: 
Quelques subdivisions des groupes basés sur l’indice cephaliques, by Paul 1 Broca. 
De l’embryogenie dans ses rapports avec l’anthropologie (Legon d’ouverture al’ 
d’ Anthropologie), by Mathias Duval. 
Classification et chronologie des haches en Bronze, by M. Gabriel de Mortillet. 
Les Negres chez eux (Part 2), by M. Mondiere. 
Sur quelques Cranes de criminels et de suicides, by MM. Ten Kate and Pav 
Revue Critique—* Les Samoyedes,” of on and Bogdanof. 
Rev. Préhistoriques—Soc. d’Anthrop. de Paris; The antiquity of Man in Dauphiny. 
ete. ; Deg pological Society of Berlin, and Congress of Prehistoric A 
° 
goa Morr concen ethnica; and Discovery of America by the Normans in 
ury. 
Ecole 
lovsky- , 
Higher Studies; Conferences on Anthropology by the Faculty of Scene 
Lyons; On siaccpclogival peor in Italy; Congress in Algiers 19 
Bibliagraphyc. Ste closely printed pages are devoted to bibliography. 
HE EcypriAN StonE AGE.—The New York Nation for janue 
ary 13, alludes to the researches of Dr. Mook as finally se 
at rest the greatly disputed question as to the existence 0 
Prehamitic population in the valley of the Nile. In the nu 
mber for 
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