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nology of the Bible is to extend to no more than six thousand years, how the 
author will explain away the troublesome fact of the antiquity of man, which 
researches prove to extend to some two hundred thousand years. However,, 
as I)r. Molloy does not touch on this point in the present work, but promises 
to go into it in a future one, we must only await the appearance of his next 
essay. Ilis il Geology and Revelation ” is a well-written, able, and scholarly 
work, and one which will be read with interest by men of all persua- 
sions. 
THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. * 
D ESPITE the ferocious onslaughts of Mr. Hyde Clarke, the Anthropo- 
logical Society still flourishes, and in accordance with its usual custom,, 
has this year published a fine volume of Memoirs. Of course, some of the 
papers printed in this work are not so good as others, and there are some 
which hardly merited being printed at all ; but then we must bear in mind 
that a Society often accepts papers having little intrinsic interest, which are,, 
nevertheless, likely to excite a discussion at the meetings, and that such 
papers must in due course be printed with the rest. There are certain con- 
tributions, worthy of careful reading. Of these is one by Dr. Shortt, on the 
“ Bayaderes or Dancing-girls of India.” This is a very curious paper on an 
equally curious subject, and is handled in a thoroughly scientific spirit by 
the author. Another memoir of particular import, is that of Mr. W. Bollaert, 
on “Ancient Peruvian Graphic Records.” Sir Duncan Gibb also contributes 
a couple of good articles, and Dr. Beddoe, the President, publishes a very 
lengthy and valuable essay, on the u Stature and Bulk of Man in the British 
Isles.” Besides the contributions, there are several very well-executed plates 
of Skulls, and other illustrations of interest. The publication of such a 
volume as the present is the best raism d'etre that the Anthropological 
Society can offer its opponents. 
MEDICAL ELECTRICITY. t 
T HE first edition of Dr. Althaus’ treatise was a small but very well and 
favourably-known volume ; and, so far as we can see, the second edition- 
is likely to become a standard work in the therapeutics of electricity. This 
edition differs from the old one, in many important particulars. It is a very 
much larger work, we should think three times the size of the old one. The 
additions are very numerous, and relate chiefly to electro-physiology gene- 
rally. We presume the author has tried to make the work as complete as 
• Memoirs read before the Anthropological Society of London, 1807-8-9. 
VoL iii. London : Longmans, 1870. 
t 11 A Treatise on Medical Electricity, Theoretical and Practical, and its 
Use in the Treatment of Paralysis, Neuralgia, and other Diseases.” By 
Julius Althaus, M.D. Second edition. London : Longmans. 1870. 
