1885. | Anthropology. 103 
MM. d’Ault-Dumesnil and F. Daleau. Ina small volume, pre- 
pared by le Marquis de Nadaillac, and distributed among the 
members, entitled: “ Notice sur Blois et les environs ;” a chapter 
of fourteen pages is devoted to the silex of Thenay. In greeting 
the congress M. le Senateur Dufay discarded the term “ Tertiary 
man,” and spoke without apology of the Axthropopithecus, a name 
invented by M. G. de Mortillet. The succession of beds, as 
revealed by Abbé Bourgeois, is as follows: 
A. Vegetable mesi 0.60™ 
B. Shell marl, mass of marine fossil 0.40 
C. Beds of pase ieee meenreees Biais, with Pholas excavations 
1 URE WOES DORI connec bbe pees Entróisroro ts Tis creed o. 
D. Fresh-water white ‘nite: foliated, flint rare ........ saiae 0.75 
E. Bed of fresh-water a T viewd sind 0.25 
F. -Marls as in D, silex Mis 
H. Bed of Kak with iE A nodules and bones of Acero- 
theriu s > P 0.24 
I. Marls as ik ey CONE CRIS ke dh i be aa oe Reese es 0.9 
K. Foliated marls, arer ai containing numerous flints broken ma. 
retouched 
The flints brought to light reveal not only the effect x work- 
ing, but the influence of fire. This past phenomenon M. G. de Mor- 
tillet discusses at length, in Homme, 1884, p. 550. Now with 
these facts clearly stated the next duty is to study them dispas- 
sionately. The Axthropopithecus must be fairly treated. On the 
one hand there is nothing sacred about him, and he may have to 
be knocked on the head; on the other hand, he is not, per se, as 
a rival of “ Tertiary man,” to be hustled off the wharf. 
INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL ExposiTion.—-At the seventh 
National Congress of French Geographical Societies to be held 
in Toulouse in next August, will be organized an international 
exposition, of which the fifth section relates to anthropology. 
M. E. Cartailhac will have charge of this section, of which the 
following is an outline: 
r P ep OFER skeletons, tissues; figures and busts, especially with 
reference to rac 
Il. eee ee "Statistical studies of peoples; graphic methods, charts, copies 
o Proisory aa remains, relics; charts, books, objects, prints, ef similia. 
V. Glossology. 
. Instrumentalities, of research and instruction. 
Considerable space has been given to these programmes be- 
cause the time has come to give to our science a more restricted 
definition in the use of terms and the classification of objects. 
In other words, we ought to know what terms to apply and 
what arrangements to make of our specimens, to exhibit and to 
describe them. The Naturatist will open its anthropological 
department for the discussion of these two ideas, the meaning of 
words and the best methods of classifying. The last point will 
include the number and relative importance of classific concepts 
as well as the method of separating and studying materials, 
