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Daniel G. Brinton. Referring to the action of the Anthropological Society of Washington respecting the name " Amerind," Miss Crane says : " We shall follow the example of the Washington authorities and adopt it henceforth."

u The Ethnology of the Teeth," by Alton H. Thompson, D.D.S., Topeka, Kansas (8°, 13 pp.), is primarily a plea for odontography, and is addressed to those whose profession gives opportunity for systematic observation and record of the characteristics of human teeth ; but it is so extended by example and reference as to constitute a real contri- bution to knowledge. (W J M.)

It is reported that the explorer, Prof. Wilhelm Joest, who died some time ago during an expedition among the South Sea islands, has left $75,000 to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, the interest of that sum to be used for procuring new collections and in assisting scientific expeditions.

The December, 1898, issue of the Indian Antiquary (Bombay), recently received, devotes its entire fifty pages to memorials of the late Dr Johann Georg Biihler, professor of Sanskrit and Indian antiquities in the University of Vienna, who met death April 16, 1898, by drowning in Lake Constance. A portrait accompanies the notices.

Professor Montelius has been appointed Yates lecturer in archeology at University College, London, for the year 1900.

Dr H. C. MOller of Utrecht, Holland, contemplates the publica- tion of an International Journal of Linguistics which is to follow the lines of the International Zeitschrift fur Sprachwissenschaft y five volumes of which were published between 1884 and 1890 by the late Dr F. Techmer of Leipzig.

SocietA Romana di Antropologia. — The following officers have been elected by the Societa Romana di Antropologia for 1 899-1900 : president, Prof. Angelo Celli ; vice-president, Giuseppe Sergi ; council, Prof. Carlo Anfosso, Dr Ridolfo Livi, Prof. Giovanni Mingazzini, and Prof. Ezio Sciamanna ; secretary, Prof. Lamberto Moschen, vice- secretary, Prof. Antonio Neviani ; curator, Dr Ugo G. Vram.

Stonehenge. — It is announced that Sir Edmund Antrobus is de- sirous of selling Stonehenge, the famous monument on Salisbury plain, England. Thinking it right that the nation should have the oppor- tunity of purchasing this great relic of antiquity, the owner has offered it to the Government, with about 1300 acres of surrounding land (sub- ject to certain pasturage and sporting rights), for the sum of ;£ 125,000.

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