Archeology and Anthropology. 477 
Bavaria.! Julius Naue continues his instructive enumeration of 
collective tombs or ancient cemeteries discovered between the 
Ammer and the Staffelsee, Bavaria. They all belong to the bronze 
and iron periods, and many of them are Roman. Some walls found 
near Uffing are of the cyclopean type and built of undressed 
stones. About thirty stone-graves are represented in the illustra- 
tions, many of them showing the body in situ. A physician of 
Tölz, Dr. M. Höfler, has composed a statistic memoir on “ Cretinis- 
tic Changes observed with the Living Population of the District of 
Tölz,” pp. 207-257. All cretinistie dispositions and alterations 
are deduced by the author from climatic causes. Among the char- 
acteristics of cretinism various authors are enumerating the pug- 
nose, prognathism, great distance from one eye to the other, bad 
condition of the teeth, small stature, lateness of the puberty period, 
weakness of the vocal and auditory organs, imbecility, goitre, 
struma and scrofula. The geological formations which show the 
largest number of strumous individuals residing upon theth are all 
of marine origin, as marine sandstone, eocene, keuper with marine 
shells. A map of the district, which lies upon the Isar River, is 
added to show the dissemination of the population affected with 
strumous diseases and complications.—A. S. Gatschet. 
FoLk-LorE—How THE LIZARDS WERE ONCE LitrLe MEN. 
Mr. L. L. Frost, of Susanville, Lassen Co., California, tells us how, 
when he requested an Indian to gather and bring in all the arrow- 
points he could find, the Indian declared them to be “no good,” 
that they had been made by the lizards. Whereupon Mr. Frost 
drew from him the following lizard story : 
There was a time when the lizards were little men, and the 
arrow-points which are now found were shot by them at the 
grizzly bears. The bears could talk then and would eat the little 
men whenever they could catch them. The arrows of the li 
men were so small that they would not kill the bears when shot 
into them, and only served to enrage them. At last there was a 
smart little fellow who lived with his grandmother. One day he 
was making a bow and his grandmother asked him what he was 
going to do with it. He replied that he was going to kill a bear. 
His grandmother told him the bear had killed all his family, and so 
she refused her consent for him to go hunting, and kept him 
Prisoner in the campooda. But the boy knew of a valley near by 
to which the bears came every evening to feed. He had finished 
1s bow and gathered up his arrows, and when one day his 
mother went for water he stole away to this valley, and, climbi 
à tree, waited for events. Pretty soon a number of bears came into 
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dia aane he marie publica, Bogota, 1884, vol. VIII., pp. 178- 
ka The nie Pitas la 'evidentie okived from Lat. pons or ad pontem, 
at the bridge” though the author is silent om this point. 
