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Bulletin de la Sociéte d'Anthropologie de Paris, tome vi. fasc. 1, 1883.—Presidential address.—Conditions to be observed by the competitors for the annual “Godart Prize” of 500 francs, founded in 1862; and for the “Broca Prize” of 1500 francs for the best memoir on a question of human or comparative anatomy, or of physiology referring to anthropology. This prize was founded by Madame Broca in 1881, and is biennial.—Report by M. Pozzi of a highly ornamented so-called medical pipe, found in an ancient mound in Kentucky. This fine specimen of the workmanship of the prehistoric mound-builders of the New World is identical with those found in California, and supposed to have been used for producing blisters and moxas.—M. Ball described the postmortem appearances of the brain of the Batignolles cretin, whose abnormal condition had been brought to the notice of the Society last year.—On social instinct, by Dr. Prat.—On supposed human imprints found in clay beds at Carson in Nevada, by Dr. W. Hoffman.—An interesting paper on the superstitions and faith in sorcery still persisting in South Italy, by M. Mari-court.—On an anomaly of the brachial biceps, by M. G. Hervé.— On M. Hamy's Case of anthropometric instruments, approved of by the Society, for the use of travellers engaged in Anthropological determinations.—A case of hydrocephalus in a child of ten years, by Dr. de Grandmont, considered specially in reference to the ophthalmic lesions associated with this condition, and their probable joint dependence among other causes on too near relationship between the parents, as intermarriage between first cousins of degenerate constitution.—The reproduction in man of a simian muscle, the scalenus intermedius of the anthropoid apes, by Dr. Testut.—Observations on polyandry in Kouloo and Ladak, by M. Ujfalvy, based on personal investigations during his travels in the Western Himalayas. In Kouloo polyandry and polygamy subsist side by side; in Ladak with similar physical and economic conditions, polygamy, which necessitates a certain degree of material prosperity, is less frequent, The prevalence of polyandry among savage tribes in ancient times, and the organisation of matriarchy, or maternal supremacy, in tribal and domestic rule, were considered by M. Rousselet in the discussion which followed the reading of M. Ujfalvy's important communication.—A discussion on the anthropological study of the crania of great criminals, chiefly in reference to the connection of criminality with any fixed cranial malformation, by M. Manouvrier.—Considerations of the nature of the arterial sulci of the encephalon in man, by M. Danilo.—On the development of the human skeleton, by M. de Merjkowsky, with special reference to the emhryological affinities between the higher and lower animals, the author believing that in the human fœtus we have a reproduction of a simian form, which gives support to the theory of development as applied to man.—An anomalous formation of the first rib, by M. G. Hervé.—On the brain of an insane person, by M. Rey, in which the frontal and antero-posterior circumvolutions were extraordinarily developed, together with an excessive weight of the brain.—On a successful attempt to inoculate a monkey with matter taken from an indurated chancre, by M. Pozzi.—On the substance used by the North American Indians to poison their arrows, by Dr. Hoffman.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 28, 310 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028310a0
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