404 General Notes. (April, 
Barber, John R. Baker, Henry Phillips, Jr., Francis Jordan, Jr., 
Stewart Culin, Daniel G. Brinton. Communications should be 
addressed to Henry Phillips, Jr., No. 104 S. Fifth street, Philadel- 
; phia. The society is to be congratulated for its energy in this 
matter. The City of Brotherly Love was once headquarters of 
anthropology in America. 
Tue REVUE p’ANTHROPOLOGIE—The most celebrated of the 
many French journals devoted to the science of man, was founded 
in Paris by Paul Broca, in 1872, and continued by his pupil, Dr. 
Paul Topinard, after the death of the former. A third series was 
commenced -with 1886 with the coöperation of the most dis- 
are tinguished representatives of the various branches of anthropo- 
, ` logical science; among them Dr. Gavarret, director of the Ecole 
d’Anthropologie de Paris; Dr. Mathias Duval, director of the 
Laboratoire d’Anthropologie a l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes; Mar- 
quis de Nadaillac; General Faidherbe, High Chancellor of the 
Legion of Honor; Professor A, de Quatrefages, at the Museum 
of Natural History; Dr. Hamy, of the Musée Trocadero; L. 
Rousselet ; Jules Rochard ; Baron Savoy and D’Arbois de Jubain- 
. ville, of the French Institute. Dr. Topenard, the director of the 
ee Revue, is general secretary of the Société d’Anthropologie de 
: Paris, and author of the Eléments d’Anthropologie, to which the 
Académie des Sciences, awarded one of its annual prizes. 
Tue Races or Men.—The latest attempt to find a rational 
expression of racial differences among mankind is by Mr. James 
Dallas, curator of the Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. The 
author is in accord with the general tendency to see three princi- 
pal groups of humanity, as follows: 
ochroi, represented by the European, 
Mesochroi, represented by Mongols and American Indians. . 
ans. 
Æthochroi, represented by Negroes and Australi 
= In the Æthochroic group, Mr. Dallas would include Berbers, 
_ Nubians. Even admitting that this type extended into Arabia, 
there would still be an enormous gap between this and the nearest 
Eastern appearance of the Æthochroic group in India. The | 
= Kuhlis, Bhils, Gonds and Konds of India; Mincopies, of Anda- ; 
‘man; the Negritos and Samangs of the Philippines, and the Malay 
archipelago; the Papuans and other pelagian negroes; the Aus- 
-tralians and Tasmanians all belong, according to the author, to 
one great type. 
- Although the Æthochroic group is spread over an immense 
area, “the changes in physical geography requisite to bring all 
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