406 General Notes. [April, 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—A German treatise of Ernst Kuhn 
“on the origin and languages of the transgangetic nations” was 
published in the Transactions of the Bavarian Royal Academy 
(1883, pp. 22, 4to), and gives a lucid sketch of racial and linguis- 
tic facts observed in China and Indo-China by recent investiga- 
tors. Kuhn thinks that the autochthonic population of the Indo- 
Chinese peninsula are the people of Annam, Kambodja and Pegu, 
and that the intruders who drove them to the coast, came origi- 
nally from Western China, like the Tibetans; that the monosyl- 
labism of all these languages is not original, but only the result 
of condensation of a former polysyllabic status; that the Tibetan 
language has retained the most Arabic forms of the western 
group of dialects ; that the Kambodja is not a Malayan language, 
as it has beenasserted by Aymonier and Keane; that the series of 
numerals proves ancient affinity of Chinese with Barma (Bur- 
mese), Siamese, Lepcha and Tibetan. — The Lord’s Prayer, 
translated by E. H. Man into the South Andamanese language, 
has been fully commented by R. C. Temple, and edited by him 
with a scientific preface and introduction on that curious aggluti- 
native language, which had never been previously investigated in 
a philosophic manner. 
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drawing apparatus adapted to drawing the outlines of macro- 
scopic objects. It consists of a- pantograph (in which the tracer 
is represented by a tubular diopter) supported on a square table. 
_ * Edited by Dr. C. O. WHITMAN, Mus. Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass- 
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