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d Anthropologie, founded in 1872, by Paul Broca, and edited by 
Paul Topinard. In this review will be found original papers, 
criticisms, revue préhistorique, revue des livres, revue des jour- 
naux, correspondence and bibliography. It would be hard to find 
a more comprehensive and reliable periodical. The last number 
of 1882 furnishes the following original papers : r 
I. List of Broca’s craniometric measures and processes. By Paul Topinard. ou 
. Customs of the Japanese: wife, daughter, child, costume, food, &e By G 
Maret. : 
. Muscular variations in the races of men. By T. Chudzinski. 
Populations of the Balkan peninsula. By G. Lejean. 
N 
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1866, gave $150,000 to found a museum of archæology and eth- 
nology. The building erected on the grounds of Harvard Uni- 
versity now contains a collection second only to that in Washing- 
on. The fifteenth Annual Report, by Professor F. W. Putnam, 
contains the balance sheet, the announcement of the curator, 4 
list of donations and a communication of sixty-six pages by Mr. 
Putnam, upon copper objects from North and South Amam 
This is, without doubt, the most valuable publication in existen 
upon this subject, and we shall recur to it in a subsequent num 
ber of the NATURALIST. 
th inde- 
THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN.—The Rev. S. D. Peet, wit $ 
fatigable energy has succeeded in founding a quarterly magazine up 
on American aboriginal history, that has just entered upon! ae 
volume. After migrations as numerous as those of some of ae ie 
it immortalizes, it has settled down in Chicago, not to perish aie 
ever, like the aborigines, but to renew its youth. In the ae 
- number will be found Mr. Hale’s paper on Indian migrations © 
denced by language, Mr. Barney’s on native races 
Mr. Peet’s on Ancient village architecture in America, t the 
on an Aztec town in New Mexico, and Mr. Gatschets hie lin- 
Chumeto language (California). The number also furnishes = 
7 4g sus 
whether good or bad; attempts to popularize ethnology by $ ae : 
for the people books of travel, &c. It is to the. last n ri pre : 
we now refer. Some of the most delightful tidbits © ma 
tion upon subjects often hard to get at are to be foun ‘the Sioux 
i We have one before us now, entitled “ eee 
o akota; eighteen months’ experience as an n T Van 
by Capt. D. C. Poole, 22d Infantry, U.S.A., published eo pir- 
Nostrand, N. York. The author treats his subject in & of indiat 
minded way, draws in a ic manner his picture 
_ government, dress, habitations, their hospitality, bravery © 
