1885.] Anthropology. 1133 
one. The medicine man does not differ from the same function- 
ary in all other tribes of their gradus—Mr. Y. M. Dixon, in Tr. 
As. Soc., Fapan, XI, 39-50. 
Japanese Tea—Part 1, vol. xu, pages 1-32, plates 1-xXx1, is de- 
voted to a monograph on the preparation of Japan tea. By 
Henry Gribble. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News. — Professor F. W, Putnam draws 
Richmond, Wayne county, Ind.: “ A tusk [of the mastodon or 
mammoth ] was exhumed from the gravel, fifteen feet below the 
surface, while excavating the Whitewater canal near Brookville, 
thirty miles south of Richmond; a club-shaped implement, 
formed apparently of cliff limestone, was also taken out of the 
gravel ten feet below the surface, near the spot where the tusk 
was found.” A writer in Science draws attention to the follow- 
ing sources of information respecting the aboriginal languages of 
S. America: 
Professor Friedr, Müller in Grundzüge der Sprachwissenschaft. 
Lucien Adam in Examen grammatical de seize langues américaines, Genoa, 1882. 
Dr. Julius Platzmann in Glossar der Feuerländischen sprache. 
Rate Bove in I Fuegini, secondo Vultimo suo viaggio, Parte prima, Genova, 
1883 
John Luccok, Grammatical elements and a vocabulary of the Tupi language or 
' lingoa geral, of Brazil, Rio Janeiro. H. Laemmert & Co., 1882. 
Dr. Julius Platzmann, fac-simile edition of Havestadt’s book of Chilidaqu [see Sci- 
ence, II, 550]. 
R. B. White, A short ethnographic and linguistic study of the Indians of Antioquia 
and of the Cauca valley, U. S. Colombia. 
J. Anthrop. Inst., &c.. 1884. raion vocabularies of the Noanama and Tadó dia- 
lects of the Choco family]. 
Edwin R. Heath, Vocabularies of Canichana, Cayuaba, Mobima, Moseteria, Paca- 
ara, Marépa and Tacana languages of Bolivia. 
Braz da Cosia, Vocabulos indigenas e outros introducidos nouzo vulgar. [Foreign 
and Indian words introduced into the Portuguese of Brazil. 
A. H. Keane, On the Botocudos, also called Aimorés, J. Anthrop. Inst., Nov., 1883. 
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Botocudos means “ those wearing the lip ornamen 
J. J. von Tschudi, Organismus der Kechna sprache, Leipzig. F. A. Brockhaus, 
1884, pp. 534. ; 
Giovanni pelles, Sulla lingua degli Indiani Mattacchi del Gran Chacco, Frienze, 
: 1881. 
F. di la Carrera, Arte de la lingua Yunga, Lima, 1880. 
