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tic origin, the subject becomes of more than -passing interest for 
the. French anthropologists. 
r. Salmon outstrips all competitors in the fizesse of his chart 
of archeology, in that region of guesswork where six blind men 
of Hindustan went out to see the elephant. Here it_is: 
I. Age of stone, Period 1. Stone flaked by fire, Tertiary. 
Period 11. Chipped stone, Quaternary, 
a. Epoque Chelleénne or Acheuléen, Ay 
4, Epoque moustérienne, P 
c. Epoque solutreènne, 
d. Epoque magdalenienne, 
Period 111. Polished stone, Recent. 
II. Age of bronze, T 
UI. Age of iron, p 
Age 1, Period 1, is then elaborated, p. 451, into thirteen stages 
extending from the Lower Miocene to the Upper Pliocene. 
. Lejean’s paper is continued from pp. 201-259 of this vol- 
ume, and is indispensable to the ethnologist. 
The purport of Dr. Arno’s paper is sufficiently explained by 
the title. 
On p. 520 M. Manouvrier reviews Hovelacque’s “ Les Races 
Humaines,” The author divides our race primarily into Austra- 
lians, Papuans, Melanesians, Bushmen, Hottentots, Guinea and 
Soudan Negroes, Akkas, Kaffirs, Peuls and Nubians, Negritoes, 
Veddahs, Dravidians, Moundas (savages of Indo-China), Siamese, 
Birmans, Himalayans, Indo-Chinese (east and south), Chinese, 
Japanese, Ainos, Hyperboreans, Mongolians, Malays, Polynesians, 
Americans, Caucasians, Berbers, Semites, Aryans (Asiatic and 
uropean). 
On p. 527 is a short sketth of M. Emile Houzé’s studies on 
the crania of Flamands and Wallons. The prehistoric Belgians 
are neatly set forth in the following scheme: 
té 
E Ageo Race of Engis, Dolicocephalic. 
Jenene the mammoth «o « Naulette, - 
Age of stone — do. of reindeer ‘“  “ Furfooz, Sub-brachyceph’c. 
Neolithic « Sclaigneaux, Brachyceph’c. 
se Chauvaux, Dolicocephalic. 
Eygenbilsen, limit of the bronze and the iron age. 
of metal, 
ou algae | Louette-Saint- Pierre? 
` archeeologi 
æologically by Lustin, province of Namur ? 
MICROSCOPY.’ 
ORIENTATION IN Microtomic Sections.—If-any organic object 
h en cut (“microtomized”) into serial sections and mounted, 
e ston through which a section passes; we must have the means 
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