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1833. ] Anthropology. 803 
The Potlatches of Puget Sound. By M. Eells. 
Mythology of the Dakotas. By S. R. Riggs. 
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-The linguistic notes of the Antiquarian, by Mr. A. S. Gatschet, 
are of great value. 
Tue Pree or Peace—Mr. E. A. Barber has an illustrated 
article on the pipes of the American aborigines in The Continent 
for April 4th, which brings together much information of value. 
It is pleasant to read the descriptions of the old writers of the 
conquest. Says one: “ The salvages possessed a kinde of herbe 
dryed, which, with a cane and an earthen cup in the end, with 
fire and the dryed herbs put together, do sucke through the cane 
the smoke thereof, which smoke satisfieth their hunger, and there- 
with they live foure or five dayes withoute meate or drinke.” 
Another says: “This cornet of claie is a little pan, hollowed 
at the one side, and within whose hole there is a long quill or 
Pipe, out of which they suck up the smoak, which is within the 
said pan, after they put fire to it with a coal that they lay upon it. 
COMPARATIVE AND PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCHES INTO THE CHAR- 
ACTERS OF THE CRANIUM AND Brain.—The Bulletin of the Zoo- 
logical Society of France for 1882 contains a treatise upon this 
subject by Dr, L. Manouvrier, a pupil and disciple of Broca. For 
fullness of detail and breadth of view, this work, which occupies 
stood unless those it has with other parts of the organism are 
first separated. In order to appreciate the influence of the intel- 
lectual and of the physical development on the form and quantita~ 
tive development of the brain and cranium, it becomes necessary 
to compare individuals and groups of individuals presenting very 
evident difference in the development of intelligence or that of 
the body, such as 1st, different species of vertebrates that are 
nearly equal in intelligence but of different size, or vice versa ; 
2, individuals of the same species, but of different ages; 3, indi- 
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