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as the passage from inorganic to organic life, from invertebrate to 
vertebrate, the introduction of the Mammalia, and followed the 
question into anthropology, noticing such breaks as the advent of 
man, and the phenomena of the inventive faculty. 
Dr. Gregory discusses the phenomena of civilization from the 
side of human wants 
Mr. Holmes, during a visit to Mexico, had'the good fortune to 
witness the making of a railroad cut and other excavations which 
revealed three periods—the ancient, the Aztec and the modern. 
Mr. Tylor’s delightful address has already appeared in Science. 
Dr. Boas spent more than a year in Baffin land among the Es- 
kimo visited by Capt. Hall and gave a sketch of the geography 
and ethnology of this region 
Mr. John Murdoch, for three years attached to the signal ser- 
vice at Point Barrow, Alaska, described the varied uses of the 
seal and the methods of capture with the retrieving harpoon, with 
the una harpoon and with the net, the most ingenious plan of 
Dr. Brinton’s short paper refers to the connection of the mound- 
builders with the Shawnees 
Professor Ward draws attention to the disharmony between 
material progress, or the accumulation of the means of happiness, 
and moral progress, or the ability to adapt these means to human 
well-being. 
Colonel Seely presented an elaborate argument to show the 
¢ plication of modern methods of examining inventions to the 
early inventions of our race. The term eurematics was intro- 
duced for the study of the processes of invention in all human 
activities. 
ajor Powell’s address was an elaborate analysis of culture or 
the humanities into arts, institutions, languages, opinions and in- 
tellections, and the discussion of the three great culture stages, 
savagery, barbarism and civilization, in relation to these forms 0 
activities. 
ETHNOLOGY OF Borngo.—Everybody has heard of Professor 
Ward, of Rochester. Well, in 1876 he sent Mr. Wm. T. Horna- 
day to the East Indies equipped as a collector. This journey 
accomplished, after two years of wandering, the explorer returned 
to active work in his profession. He has found leisure, however, 
- to write one of the most charming books of travels in "India and 
Malaysia it has been our privilege to read. In this volume, Two 
Years in the Jungle, will be found excellent notes on the peoples 
of India anda thorough — of the people of Borneo. 
The Dyaks are thus 
Kyans. All of the center and coming to ie coast along the middle of the north- 
east shore. 
Hill Dyaks. Uplands of north-west corner back of Sarawak. 
Sea hee aks. Uplands and coast east of Hill 
l Dyaks. Away from the coast in fe entire north-east region, 
