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horse-shoe, that of the protection effected by the outstretched hand, 
by rags suspended on tree-limbs, the belief in miracle-working 
springs and fountains, the swallowing of fire, ete.—A. 8. Gatschet. 
GuanasuatTo.—The statistics of this Mexican State, which 
borders on the west side on Jalisco and Zacatecas, were made the 
subject of a quarto publication by Antonio Peñafiel, the director of 
the statistical bureau in Mexico. The title is Cuadros sinopticos 
y division territorial de la Republica Mexicana. Estado de Guana- 
juato. Mexico, 1887, pp. 192, 4°. This central state has an area 
of 20,276 square kilometres. The district in which the capital is 
situated, lies about 2000 metres above the ocean. The State has 
1,007,116 inhabitants, the capital, Guanajuato, 52,112. The 
Indian languages spoken in the State are the Pame, Otomi, Chichi- 
mec, Tarasco and Jarapecha, which is a Tarascan dialect.—A. 8. 
Gatschet. 
Lieut.-Gen. Pitt-Rivers, of the British Army, is known to 
archeology as well under his former name, Col. Lane-Fox, as 
under his present name. Upon the decease of an elder brother, he 
took, as the next heir, the entailed family estates, and by provision 
of the entail was required to change his name as above. e 
family estate was at Cranborne Chase, not far from Salisbury. 
Here Gen. Pitt-Rivers had ample scope to indulge his archzologic 
tastes in excavations. He has profited by the occasion, and has 
lately published for private distribution a magnificent quarto- 
volume, entitled “ Excavations in Cranborne Chase, near Rush- 
more, on the Borders of Dorset and Wiltshire.” He has contin- 
ued his investigations, and read before the Anthropological Institute 
at London an article in continuation thereof. His article is fol- 
lowed by one of Dr. Beddoe’s, which pursues the same line 0 
thought. Both are largely devoted to a calculation of the stature 
of the prehistoric races, as estimated from the long bones of the 
skeletons found in the tombs. 
The rules adopted by the different authorities eare commented 
upon in the light of experience by these two gntlemen. They 
belong to the science of anthropometry, and it would increase the 
length of this article beyond proper limits to give them, The 
importance of anthropometry is better recognized in Europe than 
it has been in the United States, which is much to our detriment. 
Gen. Rivers says: “I draw the attention of anthropologists to the 
important point than questions of stature enter so largely into all 
racial speculations that a uniform system of estimating stature from 
the long bones is a matter of most ungent necessity.” n, “I 
have conformed to Dr. Topinard’s rules for the sake of uniformity, 
and in this I am supported by Dr. Garson. _ 
