400 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor. XXXV. 
of archeological material and suggests a classification under 
thirteen main divisions of such material, with a view to illustrating 
ancient tribal life and ethnology. This method would make the 
specimens aid in solving problems and would find a use for many 
now discarded as unworthy of attention. 
The Report for 1899 contains a paper by Mr. Smith upon “the 
preservation of local archzological evidences,” showing the danger of 
their obliteration by man and nature, and the necessity of systematic 
explorations in this country as well as in foreign lands. More accu- 
rate and complete records should be kept by means of indices and 
catalogues. Mr. Smith makes suggestions for local work under the ^ 
auspices of state universities and historical societies. 
An interesting example of *psycho-physical study" is given in 
Mr. Arthur MacDonald’s “Emile Zola," reprinted from Zhe Ofen 
Court, August, 1898. This study was made by a number of French 
specialists, and the result published with the approval of the subject. 
Among the characteristics investigated are antecedents, mental 
evolution, physical peculiarities, the nervous system, ideas, senti- 
ments, and will This empirical method is employed in order that 
we may come to have somatology of the living as well as of the dead, 
and thus gain a knowledge that will be of practical use in amelio- 
rating social conditions. 
In the Bulletin (Vol. VIII, No. 2) of the French Society of Anthro- 
pology, M. Zaborowsky discusses at some length the problems of the 
racial unity and the place of origin of the Slavs. He concludes that: 
1. The Slavs of the North came from the region between the 
Danube and the Adriatic. They were related to the neighboring 
inhabitants of the terramare of Emilia. The migrants may have 
been drawn toward the north by the trade in amber. 
2. They passed the Carpathians through the valleys of the Oder 
and Vistula, following especially the latter to the vicinity of the 
Baltic, where they developed an independent culture. 
3. The Slavs introduced the custom of cremation, until then 
unknown. They brought metals and glass; iron was used for orna- 
ment only. 
4. They formed a branch or included the tribes of the Venedes of 
the Adriatic; the name Venedes dates back in the Baltic region to 
the fourth century before our era. 
5. By their dominant characters they approach the French Keltic 
type. The southern Slavs are dark and brachycephalic. To the 
