730 General Notes. [July, 
Leipzig, Veit u. Comp., 1884,” pp. 166. The topics treated are 
as follows: 
Iron and copper among the Negro races. 
Iron and copper in hither India. 
The Gypsies as metal workers. 
Metallurgy among the Malays, farther India, China, Japan, Northern Asia. 
Knowledge of iron among the American Indians, 
Copper in North America. | 
Copper and bronze in Mexico. 
Metals used by the agree 
Copper and bronze 
The spread of iron in cate Sanh Sea islands, 
THE FRANKFURT CRANIOMETRIC AGREEMENT.—A full statement 
of this agreement has been published in the NATURALIST, and its 
importance is so great that we draw attention to Professor Gar- 
son’s objections to it. In the first place, since those devoting 
themselves to any branch of science belong to one brotherhood, 
the introduction of the word German is unfortunate. In drawing 
up any code of craniometric measurements the researches of 
Broca must be the basis, Professor Garson advocates the con- 
dylo-alveolar plane. The audito-orbital plane is in some instances 
directed more or less obliquely downward; it is more difficult to 
place the skull in the latter plane; the apparatus of suspension is 
complicated and in the way of important measuring. Again, 
the horizontal measures are not important, the form of the skull 
is quite as fully indicated by measurements from fixed points by 
the sliding callipers. The following Frankfurt measurements are | 
accepted, the numbers are those of the agreement: 
2. Maximum length. 17a. Bi-jugal err 
4. Maximum breadth. 18. Bi-zygomatic breadth, 
5. Maximum frontal breadth. 18a. PBA breadth. 
7. Height (basio-bregmatic). 21. Height of nose. 
10, Basio-nasal length, 22. Breadth of nose, 
Length 23. Orbital breadth. 
13. Breadth 25. Orbital height. 
14. Horizontal circumference, 30. Basio-alveolar length, 
15. Fronto-occipital arc. 
? of foramen magnum, 
The following measurements are rejected : 
t. Horizontal length. 175. Infra-jugal facial breadth, 
6. Total height, 24. Maximum horizontal orbital breadth, 
8. Ear height, 26. Vertical height of orbits, 
g. Auxiliary ear-height. 27. Palatal length, 
=> 1u. Basilar length, 28. Palatal breadth. 
_. 13@, Bi-mastoid width. = 29, Posterior palatine breadth, 
_ 136. Breadth of base of skull, 31. Profile angle, 
