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commissioner's reports. Much of the space. that is filled with 
mere gossip and unpractical advice from agents might be the 
repository of the most useful ethnological information. 
Tue Inpran Museum at CaLcurrta.—Dr. John Anderson has 
issued Part 11 of the Catalogue and hand-book of the archeolog- 
ical collections of the Indian Museum. Gupta and inscription 
galleries, Buddhist, Jain, Brahmanical and Muhammadan, sculp- 
tures; metal weapons, objects from tumuli, etc. Calcutta, printed 
by order of the trustees, 1883. The volume contains 521 pages, 
and is much more than a list of articles. Some one has said that 
a well ordered museum is a collection of carefully prepared labels 
with specimens attached. Dr. Wilson has not only brought to 
his work a great deal of learning, but has also called to his 
several distinguished specialists. It is impossible to single out 
i. part of the volume for an example, where all is so well 
A NEW JourNAL—The following is the title of a new journal 
of comparative philology : /uternationale Zeitschrift fiir allgemeine 
Sprachwissenschaft, unter mitwirkung der Herren [L. Adam and 
many others} herausgegeben von F. Techmer, docenten der 
| n Sprachwissenschaft an der Universitat Leipzig. 1 
Band, 1 Heft. Leipzig, Joh. Ambr. Barth, 1884. 
The following papers appeared in the first number: i> 
ion to general philology. By A. F. Pott. Philosophical side; Origin of 
guage, general grammer; physical side; psychical side; natural history— 
_ Psychical side; classification of languages, pp. 1-68. , 
Scientific analysis and synthesis of audible speech. By F. Techmer. Speech >t 
without as it approaches us; acoustic, analysis and synthesis ; Speech r 
within outward : Anatomical and physiological genesis the windpipe, 
glottis, nose, palate, tongue, mouth. The classification of vowel and consonant 
his discussions on language, there has been great improvement 
in the correl t c 
sy las given us the most thorough discussion and Hue 
ill this subject. One hardly knows, when he is looxing at 
Pe tae whether he has in hand a treatise on language OF a 
* k on anatomy. : 
con STHROPOLOGY IN FRANCE.—With the current year Materiaux 
a Vol. 1, 3d series. The first two num present 
Wing valuable memoirs: weet 
of some Hallstattian n les in Austria and in Italy. By Ernest a 
[pp. 1-27, 31 figures of sv sags bronze objects. Quite a number of new 
i orms are presented. ] ne w aa 
istory of istoric anthropology. Cuvier and the — of man. si charg? 
. Mortillet’s 
of having Opposed the theory of the antiquity of man. Í 
