1244 General Notes. [December, 
treasures under Dr. Rau’s charge will enable him, now that the 
material is arranged, to give many more contributions as inter- 
esting as “ Prehistoric Fishing.” 
A New Craniar Race CHARACTER.— Dr. Lissauer, of Dantzig? 
has recently published an important work with the following title : 
Untersnchungen über die sagittale Krümmung des Schadels be! 
den Anthropoiden und den verschiedenen Menschenrassen. Von 
Dr. Lissauer in Dantzig. Mit sieben lithographirten Tafeln. 
Separat-Abdruck aus dem “ Archiv für Anthropologie.” xv 
Band, Supplement. Braunschweig, 1885. pp. 112. 
The author of this treatise introduces his subject with these 
words: “ By sawing a skull through the sagittal median plane, 
and drawing, as exactly as possible, the outer contour of the sec- 
tion thus obtained, we get the sagittal aspect of the skull, the 
norma sagittalis. It presents a very irregular curve.” * * ¥* 
“ A careful study of this curve in the different skull-forms of an- 
thropoids and man will therefore be the cbject of this treatise.” 
Although, for the purpose of definition, the author speaks of 
sawing the skulls, in practice he does not consider it necessary ; 
but describes an ingenious apparatus by means of which the 
sagittal curve may be traced without injury to the skull. His 
promise of a “ careful study ” has been well fulfilled. Every point 
of importance seems to have been thoroughly considered and 
clearly set forth. Dr. Lissauer has been obliged to invent a num- 
er of new terms, and as these will, no doubt, take a permanent 
place in the nomenclature of craniometry, it is fortunate that ‘they 
hews. ; 
are terms well devised:-—W. Matthew. 
Erunotocy oF Ancient Iraty.—The ethnology and history 
of the populations of ancient Italy present problems of high in- 
terest, but these are just as perplexing through their intricacy as 
they are insolvable through the remoteness of the periods. Re- 
cent archzological finds have added new problems, but on the 
_ other hand have helped in clearing up doubtful points. Dr. 
Fligier, in his “ Urzeit von Hellas und Italien,” has given 
very strong reasons for supposing that the Japygians and 
iddl y o 
. _ Ausonians, as well as other aborigines of Middle Italy wh 
