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Maget, Dr. G.—Sur les moeurs des Japonais. 
Féré, Ch,—Nouvelles recherches sur la topographie cranio-cérébrale, 468-487. 
Deniker, Mi—A review of Weisbach’s “* Kérpermessungen verschiedener Men- 
schemassen,”” Berlin, 1878, pp. 448-502. [This is a very minute and valuable 
review of a work not in the hands of many American anthropologists. ] 
eee Review of the following works: [Ernest Chantre, “ Premier Age du 
er 
5 
.—Necropoles et tumulus” (1 vol. gr. in 4to, pp. §7, with album in folio, 
50 plates.——Baron J. de Baye, “ L’Archéologie préhistorique. Epoque ter- 
tiaire. Epoque quaternaire. Transition entre les deux ep de la prerr 
Epoque néolithique. Grottes artificielles de la Marne. Grottes & sculptures 
Sépultures. Trepanation préhistorique. Fleches a tranchant transversal, etc.” 
1 vol. gr. 8vo, pp. 412, figs., Paris, 1880.——Urban & Virchow, Cemeteries of 
Gross-Lichterfeld, at Berlin,’? Zedschr., 1879, P- 342.——Dr. 
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Paul—Review of Tylor’s “ Anthropology.” 
Manouvrier—Review of the following: Enrico Morsalli, ‘Critique and reform of 
the methods of anthropology, founded upon laws Statistical and biological, and 
pon experience,’’ Rome 188o. 
Lesson, H. and L. Martinet—Les Polynesiens, leur origine, leurs migrations, leur 
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Manouvrier—Reviews the following : [Ettore Regalia, ‘‘ I.es anomalies num ériques 
des vertébres chez homme et leur interprétation.”’ ser- 
Sing.] 
Cesare Taruff, ‘* Obs 
Ten Kate—Review of Gegenbauer’s “ Discussion of the lachrymal bone in man, in 
Morphologisches Fahrbuch. 
Kuhfl, G.—Review of Dr. E. Schmidt’s Kraniologische Untersuchungen, 
GEOLOGY AND PALAONTOLOGY. 
Jaw of the Zriisodon quivirensis (NATURALIST, for August; 1881), 
and consists of a single tooth of the lower jaw. It is the charac- 
teristic obliquely ridged cutting tooth well known in Plagiaulax. 
It presents the following differences from those of Plagiaulax and 
Ctenacodon, which I regard for the present as generic. 
Char. gen. Cutting edge convex and continuous with the an- 
terior edge of the crown, and serrate from the union of ridges 
Which ascend on each side. Ridges curved backwards, all reach- 
ing the edge excepting above the posterior root of the tooth, 
where they are discontinued, leaving a smooth edge. In Pagiau- 
