1883.] Anthropology. 569 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN Erunotocy.—tThe fifth 
volume of Major Powell’s quarto series upon North American 
ethnology has just issued from the Government press, though 
bearing the imprint of 1882. It is simply three quarto mono- 
graphs bound together and sent forth to the literary world upon 
their own merits without introduction, as follows: 
Observations on cup-shaped and other lapidarian sculpture in the old world and in 
America. By Charles Rau 
On prehistoric trephining and cranial amulets. By Robert Fletcher, M. R. C, S., 
Eng., Act. Asst. Surg. U.S.A. 
A study of the Manuscript Troano. By Cyrus Thomas, Ph.D. With an introduc- 
tion by D. G. Brinton, M.D. 
The first paper has undergone no changes since it first appeared, 
save a few literary corrections at the hand of the author. 
he second paper has not previously been noticed in this jour- 
Some may wonder why a work of this kind is published by 
the Government. A celebrated chief of one of our late surveys 
script.” There have been cases of perforations in aboriginal 
crania in America—in Peru, in Michigan and in Illinois. We have 
the Species, therefore, to hang the family on and to justify the 
publication. Furthermore, Dr. Fletcher is, perhaps, the only 
man in America who could have written this interesting paper, 
being the active editor of the /udex Medicus of the Surgeon-Gen- 
éral’s office, and handling the whole body of the medical litera- 
ture of the world. 
_*he third paper, already mentioned, is illustrated by four Fac 
en colored plates, five uncolored plates and 101 figures in the 
oe monograph has its own copious table of contents and 
index, 
A New Arrican Speecu.— Commenting upon Dr. Gustav 
Nachtigall’s second volume on Sahara and Sudan, Mr. A. H. 
A crisis Germa) in Phazania (Ferzan). Lepsius recognizes., in 
oe = only two fundamental racial and linguistic groups, and 
bers, while retaining their primitive Negro L 
< eatigall shows that this group is distinct from Bantu and quite 
Of tically Separate from the northern Hamitic stock. But, out 
deference to the great authority of Lepsius, seeks to save the 
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