828 General Notes. | September, 
master. The doctor attended to the binding up of the leg and 
then Flash went out with his little friend, probably seeing him 
home.—Brunswick Telegraph. 
[ Flash, whom we have known for years, is a well-trained Irish 
setter, and is a dog of unusual docility and intelligence.— | 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE.—Quite frequently we have 
drawn attention to the necessity of a consensus among anthro- 
pologists as to the technical terms to be used in certain cases, and 
also to the precise boundaries of these terms. At the suggestion 
and request of a friend in Ohio, we revert to the subiect, and pre- 
sent in the present number a short article on names, by Mr. John 
Murdoch. Without pretending to legislate upon the subject, we 
invite the most minute criticism, promising to use the words 
below defined in the sense given, unless some one offers a suffi- 
cient reason to the contrary. 
harpoons fall naturally into the two following classes: 
1. Toggle-harpoons, in which the head fits upon the shaft by 
means of a socket, and is slung in a loop at the end of the line in 
‘such manner that, when plunged into an animal, the strain ee 
the line causes the head to become detached from the shaft an 
to turn like a toggle across the wound underneath the skin. 
2. Barbed-harpoons, in which the head fits into a socket pr 
shaft, holding the animal by one or more barbs, like those oF 3 
arrow. the 
The head of an Eskimo harpoon is always detachable pE 
shaft, and fastened securely to the line. In the first class the Hi me 
is often attached temporarily to the shaft, and has fastened yes 
one or more floats made of inflated seal-skins. This class r 
cludes the ordinary seal, walrus and whale harpoons oi vany 
sizes and used both for thrusting and darting. » of 
_ The second class (comprising the so-called “ bladder arot 4 
the Greenlanders and the seal and beluga darts of the woe for- 
_ Eskimo, used only for darting) always has the line attache ae 
manently to the shaft, which is made to serve as a float, eae st 
attaching an inflated bladder to it or by making the line fast 
Martingale, so that the. shaft is dragged sideways throug 
=. Water. all of 
= A harpoon of the first class consists of a shaft, usually ~ 
e _1 Edited by Prof. Oris T. MAson, National Museum, Washington, D. C. : 
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