900 General Notes. [ August, 
“The discovery that men were already making rude flint im- 
plements in the Quaternary period has made a new scientific de- 
parture, placing primeval man in the hands of the geologists.” 
To cross the border into the animal kingdom, and to see how 
One species is transformed into another, we have only to look at 
Huxley’s series of horses: “ Zodlogists, thus enabled to recon- 
struct ideally the ancestry of the horse, are hopeful some day to 
discover likewise the fossil pedigree of the rider. 
“ Anthropologists do not feel, therefore, that their science has 
been plucked up by the roots and planted somewhere else; it is 
growing where it is only cultivated higher than in old times. 
Dr. Tylor next discusses craniology,and shows what is its true 
place in anthropology. The vexed question of philology, and its 
credibility as a witness of blood relationship is very cautiously 
handled. Regarding the hair, Dr. Tylor says: “ The cross sec- 
tion of a single hair examined microscopically by Pruners 
method shows it circular, oval, or reniform ; its follicle-curvature 
may be estimated by the average diameter of the curls as pro- 
posed by Moseley; its coloring matter may be estimated by 
Sorby’s method. The wonder is that a single bodily character 
should form a basis for rationally mapping out the divisions of 
mankind. It is now well understood that the causes of race 
color are not so simple as Hippocrates thought when he de- 
scribed the nomad Scythians as burned tawny by cold.” The 
in those regions where they are wild. Thus the negrp nei 
originated not in Africa but in Andaman and New Guinea, waei 
resented by the Egyptian and the Chinese is traced. 
MICROSCOPY.’ 
ROSE BENGALE IN COMBINATION WITH IODINE GREEN AND 
DE Lyon.—Rose bengale, according to Griesbach,? is the ain 
of the eosine dyes. An aqueous solution is very use l z 5 the 
ing chromic acid preparations of the spinal cord, as it CO RE 
gray substance much more strongly than the white substan 
1 Edited by Dr. C. O. WHITMAN, Newton Highlands, Mass. 
2? Zool. Anzeiger, Vi, No. 135, p: 172; 
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