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598 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST [n. s. f i, 1899 utensils, implements, or ornaments, and no weapons. The ethnographical collection is consequently very small. Specimens of their pottery, of their primitive quern-like mills, of their basket-work, and of their weaving apparatus were, however, obtained, and also two large blocks of stone, inscribed with an ancient script, which may perhaps throw some light on the indigenes of the island in a past age, and of whose cyclopean remains photographs were obtained.

Dr Daniel G. Brinton, professor of American archeology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, has presented to the University his collection of books and manuscripts relating to the aboriginal languages of North and South America. The collection represents a work of accumulation of twenty-five years, and embraces about 2000 volumes, in addition to nearly 200 volumes of bound and indexed pamphlets bearing on the ethnology of the American Indians. Many of the manuscripts are unique, while a number of the printed volumes are rare or unique and of considerable bibliographical importance. The collection of works on the hieroglyphic writings of the natives of this country embraces nearly every publication on the subject. The special feature of the library is that it covers the whole American field, North, Central, and South, and was formed for the special purpose of comparative study.

Deaths—, at South Lincolnshire, England, on May 14th, aged 67 years; founder of the Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific Association, member of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris.

, at Sandusky, Ohio, on May 8th, aged 74 years. An extended notice appears elsewhere in this number.

The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland was constituted in January, 1871, by the amalgamation of the Ethnological Society of London, which had been founded in 1843, and the Anthropological Society of London, established in 1863. Since the formation of the Institute, an illustrated Journal has been issued in quarterly numbers, forming, during the twenty-seven years of its existence, a series of as many volumes. Following precisely the size and shape of the publications of the preëxisting societies, the Journal of the Anthropological Institute has hitherto been a demy octavo; but this form has been deemed to be inconvenient, especially where papers have required illustration by means of ample plates and tables. With the view of obviating, so far as possible, this inconvenience, and also of improving