1174 General Notes. [November, 
The Ethnogeny of Western Europe. By Dr, Hamy. [pp. 35-48. The paper is 
the opening discourse at the Museum of Paris. The subjects to be considered 
are : atural classification; 2, Linguistic classification; 
classification, In the latter will be considered prehistoric races, cont 
ous with extinct animals; the neolithic peoples, builders of the dolmens, the 
Iberians, the Ligurians, the Celts, the Romans, Germans, Franks, 
Normans. Incidentally the Slavs, Fins, Hungarians and Turks will receive 
attention. ] i 
M. Martinet reviews several works of importance on the archæology of South 
America, (pp. 49-57.) 
Discovery of prehistoric quarries for silex. By Marcellin Boule. (pp. 65-75.) 
The Société d’Anthropologie de Paris has elected, for 1884, 
M. Hamy, president, and Dr. Paul Topinard, general secretary. 
Revue Scientifique publishes a paper, by Lombroso, upon 
anthropology and criminality (No. 10, pp. 303-308), in which he 
reviews the works of Lacassagne, Ferri, Manouvrier, Heger and 
Dallemagne, Orchanski and many others. 
FURTHER DISCOVERIES OF PERFORATED CRANIA IN MICHIGAN — 
During the last two years excavations in various mounds pie’ 
the Detroit river, in the vicinity of the city of Detroit, oe 
brought to light a number of instances, in addition to pana 
I have already noted and to which I first called mang ia 
years ago, of the peculiar burial custom of perforating me 
of the deceased. While this additional material sabes 
orates the deductions based upon my former discoveries, abai 
standing the most careful investigation, I am unable to pa ret 
any new information throwing light on the special sign aA 
the custom. As in former cases not all the skulls taken 
peculiar 1 
= hea genial A oles 
or is indicative of caste simply—a mark of honor, T The 
cluded, in all probability, the suspension of the capia b 
nicety with which the position of the aperture de of the center: 
n these last examples the perforation is of the sman 
every case being less than half an inch in diant pones We 
are of the orthocephalic type, and where the othe iarites 
recovered, they were found to present most of 17 ghee tomy 
