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to discussion. Now students have considered the subject from 
the first point of view only, regarding Atlantis as a continent 1 
the center of the Atlantic ocean, from which a great expedition 
was made nine or ten thousand years before our era, and which - 
was one day engulfed in the sea. In this form the legend is 50- 
seductive to the imagination as to place patient research out o! 
the question. Even those who have given any historic value to 
the narrative have placed the events so far back as to ante 
criticism, i 
In fact, the lands of the Atlas are not only rich in souveni 
found in books, but they are filled with monuments some ofw ich 
belong to the most remote ages and of which it becomes us t0 
study the history. The dolmens are more numerous than those 
of Armorica, and it is here that we must seek one end of that 
long line of megalithic monuments whose other extremity is t0 
be found in India, The tumuli mark a second epoch, and ten 
lines are not arrested by the ocean, they reappear on Ant : 
mains 0t 
others belonging to a still higher civilization. Indeed, e 
can land. Those of our readers who attended the } 
meeting of the American Association will recall Mr. H 
paper on the same subject, and they will be pleased 
Mr. Haliburton is at this time traversing the edge be 
Sahara with the classic authors in his hand. Ss 
Tue German ANTHROPOLOGICAL Society. — The fourteenth 
general meeting of the German Anthropological Society oe 
held the present year at Trier, on the gth, roth and 1 ith Aug 
Professor R. Virchow, president. The preliminary programi 
devoted to the general business of the meeting, and men, 
only a few of the papers to be read. 
be the editor. The first number presents a comely appea “ad 
though most readers object to quarto periodicals. Mr. Sat 7 
B. Evans contributes a paper on the Des Moines be 
mounds. 
Tue Great Inpex CaTatocur.—Volume tv of the “ v 
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s office, s! 
Army,” has just appeared. There are two things in these Vot the 
which we recommend to all anthropologists. e first n he 
alphabetical list of abbreviations of periodicals and societi K 
whole subject is in dire confusion elsewhere; but here ta 
duced to a rigid system. The second valuable thing 1S ha ; 
number of references to matters eminently anthropologic™ — 
