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University. The author describes two macrocephalic deformed skulls which were found in the Kainsk district of Tomsk, as well as three others of the same type from the Crimea.

Tolstoi Medals Awarded — The large Tolstoi medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been awarded to L. Bcsser and K.. Ballod for their researches in the natality and mortality of the popu- lations of European Russia, the Baltic provinces, and other sections of Europe, including Great Britain. The small Tolstoi medal has been presented to P. G. Matsokin for a manuscript work on the half-breeds of Transbaikalia.

Holland Anthropological Society — Through the efforts of Drs Sasse and Winckler, a Society of Anthropology has been established at Amsterdam, which has already enlisted among its members a suffi- cient number of active anthropologists to make the success of the new society assured. The officers are Dr C. Winckler, president; Dr Eugène Dubois, vice-president ; Dr Sasse, secretary ; Dr C. Kerbert, treasurer ; Dr John E. Grevers, librarian.

Congr&s d' Anthropologic et d'Arch&ologie Pr&historiques

— A committee, of which M. Alexandre Bertrand is chairman, has been selected to organize the twelfth session of the Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archeology to be held at Paris, commencing August 20, 1900.

Expedition to Siam — Mr W. W. Skeat of Cambridge University has departed from England with an expedition whose object is to in- vestigate the flora, fauna, and ethnology of the southern portion of Siam lying north of the Protected States of Malay peninsula. The party will remain in the field about a year.

Sanscrit Manuscripts — Parts 8 and 9 of A Descriptive Catalogue of Sanscrit Manuscripts in the Library of the Calcutta Sanscrit College have made their appearance. The catalogues were prepared under orders of the Government of Bengal, by Hrishi'kes'a S'a'stri', second grammar pandit of the Sanscrit Collegiate School, and Si'iva Chandra Gui, M. A., B. L., lecturer in the same institution. They bear date 1897 and 1898 respectively.

Professor Flinders-Petrie, it is announced, has presented to the Museum of Anatomy and Anthropology at Cambridge, England, nine- teen cases of skulls and bones from his excavations at Hieraconopolis. These include remains of the prehistoric and earliest dynastic races in Egypt.

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