522 General Notes. [May, 
being washed off the rocks by the tide. Iam inclined to think that 
the snout plays some part in helping the limpet to get home, as this 
organ is extremely sensitive, and certainly plays an important part 
in discovering suitable food. I intend carrying on more extended 
observations with a view to the more complete elucidation of this 
puzzling question in regard to the limpet’s locality-sense, but this 
preliminary notice may possibly be of some interest —¥. R. Davis, 
in Nature for Fan. 1, 188 
ANTHROPOLOGY.’ 
ELEMENTS OF GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY.—Without drawing in- 
vidious comparisons, it would not be unfair to say that anthropo- 
logical science is better organized in France than in any other 
country. The Dictionary of Anthropological Sciences, now 
going through the press in Paris, is just at this moment followed 
by a colossal work by Dr. Paul Topinard. The first volume, of 
1157 pages, entitled “Eléments d’Anthropologie générale,” 
relates to the history of anthropological investigations and to 
those special investigations which have been prosecuted upon 
the human body. The second part of the Anthropologie géné- 
rale will bring together all the matter furnished by the different 
branches of the natural history of man, taking into account in- 
structions furnished by accessory sciences, and will make a syn- 
thesis of these results, concluding with a discussion of man in 
time, his origin and his future. 
The second volume of the work will be the application of the 
zoologic method to the determination of all the types of the 
human species and of all the races. This will be denominated 
“ Anthropologie spéciale.” 
Without spending a word in the praise of a work which speaks 
for itself, we will give our readers a few of the tables not accessi- 
ble in any text books, but indispensable even to intelligent 
readers. 
The first six chapters are historical, tracing with great minute- 
ness the methods of studying man from Herodotus, Hippocrates, 
Aristotle and Galen down to the foundation of the Anthropologi- 
cal Society of Paris. The next three chapters, VII, VIIL, IX, treat 
of the methods to employ in anthropological research. The 
remaining chapters are devoted to the study of the hair, nose, 
color of hair, eyes and skin, cephalic indices, height, brain-weight, 
skull-cubage, craniometry, zodlogic characters, zsthetic charac- 
ters and anthropometry. 
In a former number of the Natura.ist we called attention to 
a fact, often noticed, that the method of the formation of races is 
in a certain sense antizodlogical. As Professor Flower observes, ' 
_ the methods of the formation of species are necessarily disper- 
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