826 General Notes. [August, 
MortTAatity in Wasuincton.—Dr. B. G. Poole, of the Health 
office in Washington, has compiled a table of mortality by 
months, from 1875 to 1885, eleven years. This table not only 
exhibits the death rate of the months, but shows the disparity 
between the whites and the negroids. ‘In comparing the results 
it should be borne in mind that the white population is about 
double that of the negroids: 
White. Negroids. 
o a cree PES SNe ONE SRO a 192 163 
FOOT NG RN i CINCO SO ots 177 180 
MATCH se Wb ads ct EN SE ie a eS 207 184 
April 178 170 
May 166 157 
PONE As Glew T 212 206 
July... eves 240 227 
August. 199 198 
September. 177 174 
October 176 158 
ovember. 164 143 
D mm a n | oi bo E wed co v's Gs OS hae bc E E E 177 150 
The lines run nearly parallel, the negroid death being always 
nearly twice that of the white. In February the negroid death 
actually exceeds the white, January, March, November and 
December show a better condition for the negroids, the rate tend- 
ing toward the correct proportions. 
ANTHROPOLOGY AT JoHNS Hopkins University.—Under the 
editorial supervision of Mr. Herbert B. Adams is published 
monthly the “ Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical 
and Political Science.” Several of these pamphlets, issued in 
1884, have immediate bearing on anthropological science. we 
stitutional beginnings in a Western State,” by Jesse Macy, A.B., 
No. 8 of the second series, appeared in July. This isa careful 
study in the early history of Iowa from meager documents and 
from the mouths of living witnesses. Nos. 8 and 9 of the second 
u 
of exchange, and contracts were made aes at will in wam- 
um, beaver or silver. For more than a century this currency 
entered into the intercourse of Indian and Golanist: affecting the 
. whole development of industry and commerce. To trace this 
ence is the Het sng of Mr. Weeden’s paper. No. 11 is upon 
ntary society among boys,” a pamphlet of fifty-six 
x pages, by John Berr A.B. S This is a charming study of the 
ts made by the boys of the McDonough farm school, near 
Baltimore, to imitate their elders in managing their affairs. No. 
— y Richard T. Ely, Ph.D, and discusses “ Re- 
