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The faces of some people are always partially embryonic, in having 
a short face and light lower jaw. Such faces are still more embry- 
onic when the forehead and eyes are protuberant. Retardation of 
this kind is frequently seen in children, and less frequently in 
women, The length of the arms would appear to have grown 
less in comparatively recent times. Thus the humerus in most of 
the Greek statues, including the Apollo Belvidere, is longer than 
those of modern Europeans, according to a writer in the Bulletin 
de la Société d’ Anthropologie of Paris, and resembles more nearly 
that of the modern Nubians than any other people. This. 
is a quadrumanous condition. The miserably developed calves 
of many of the savages of Australia, Africa and America, are 
well known. The fine swelling gastrocnemius and soleus 
muscles characterize the highest races, and are most remote 
from the slender shanks of the monkeys. The gluteus muscles 
developed in the lower races as well as in the higher, distin- 
guish them well from the monkeys with their flat posterior out- 
line. 
Some of these features have a purely physical significance, but 
the majority of them are, as already remarked, intimately con- 
nected with the development of the mind, either as a cause or as 
a necessary coincidence. I will examine these relations in a future 
article. 
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EDITORS’ TABLE, 
EDITORS: A, S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE, _ 
—— The late meeting of the National Academy of Sciences 
Was, in some respects, a noteworthy one. In the election of new 
members it showed that official relations at the seat of govern- 
Ment do not constitute a passport of admission to its circle. The 
Academy evidently prefers that it shall furnish candidates for 
g0vernmental responsibilities rather than that the Government 
shall furnish it with members. On the other hand it partially 
A doned its usual reserve in favor of pure science, and elected 
two members whose services have been chiefly in the field of ap- 
Plied science, 
_ the academy appointed a committee to consider its relations 
with the Government. One of the questions that should be agi- 
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