754 General Notes. [September, 
importance .n order to throw reflected greatness upon their con- 
quest.— Edward Palmer. 
Ancient PueBLo WorksHop.—On the north bank of the Rio 
San Juan, in Southern Utah, about twenty or thirty miles below 
the mouth of the Mancos cajion, in the summer of 1875, I dis- 
covered the site of an ancient aboriginal workshop, where axes 
and hatchets had formerly been made in large numbers. On an 
elevated ledge overlooking the river, I gathered together in the 
space of half an hour, upwards of twenty stone axes of various | 
sizes and in different stages of manufacture. They were all made 
of the natural, rounded, water-worn stones of the river, such as 
we call cobble-stones, varying in length from four to ten inches. 
As a general thing, the flat stones, which approached most nearly 
the desired form, had been selected, and the majority of them had 
simply a groove roughly chipped out around one end. None of 
the specimens exhibited any traces of surface-pecking. In some 
examples the edge had been commenced by flaking off small 
fragments on each side, whilst a few had been superficially sharp- 
ened by abrasion. One highly polished celt, of the long, narrow 
variety, such as the one figured in Hayden’s Report for 1876, 
Pl. xivi, Fig. 3, and two or three broken specimens were included 
in the series. They were all found on the surface, scattered 
through a large number of stones. which had evidently been car- 
ried there for the same purpose. The ledge or small plateau on 
which they were found, did not exceed two hundred feet in 
length and fifty in width.—Z. A. Barber. 
FReNcH ANTHROPOLOGY.—The Revue a’ Anthropologie, Vol. 1V, 
No. 2, April, 1881, furnishes the following communications : 
Broca, Paul—Anthropologie Zoologique. La torsion de la humérus et le T ropome- 
tre, pp. 193-210, 
Benzengre, B.—Etude Anthropologique sur les Tatars de Kassimoff, pp. 211-221 
Hamy, Dr. E. T.—Les Négres de la Vallée du Nil: Impressions et Souvenirs, PpP- 
22—235. 
Bordier, Dr. A.—Japonais et Malais. [A chapter in pathologic Anthropology, he- 
ing a lecture delivered Jan. 15, 1881, before the “Ecole d’Anthropologi¢ as 
the Course of Medical Geography.] pp. 236-246. 
Chantre, Ernest—Ancienneté des Nécropoles préhistoriques du Caucase. 
ment ranes Macrocéphales. pp. 247-254, plates 1, I. 
Kuhff, Dr.—De la Platycnémie dans les races humaines, pp- 255-259- . 
Rochebrune, Dr, A. T.—Etude morphologique, physiologique, et ethnographique 
sur la Femme et |’Enfant dans la Race Ouolove, pp. 260-294, plate Il. 
Vars, Ed.—Review of the works of N. J. Zograf and H. B. Bozdanov on the Sa- 
moyedes, pp. 295-305, with tables. 
Mortillet, G. de—Review of the Marquis of Nadaillac’s work on the first me 
prehistoric times, pp. 306-309. 
Zabarowski—Review of Archeology in Zéschr f. Ethnol., Berlin, 1879 and se 
09-312; of Hartmann’s “ Les Peuples de l'Afrique,” pp- §30-337 5 © 
Cerveau et ses fonctions, by J. Luys, pp. 336-339. 
Martinet, Ludovic—Review of Archzeology at the French Association, 1880; Bul- 
letins de la Soc. d’ Anthrop. de Paris, 1879; and the Archzology a Me meas 
Pp. 312-326; Lesson’s “Les Polynésiens, leur origine, leur migrations, 
langage,” pp. 339-343- 
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