We have received two numbers of the new Centralblatt für Anthropologie Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, edited by Dr. G. Bushan, a serial in quarterly numbers, published at Breslau. It contains a rich collection of observations upon subjects which, though not directly within the scope of our Journal, are so near to it that the new Review is likely to interest many of our readers. A great amount of diligence and learning have been bestowed in collecting the information in these numbers from a variety of sources.

Dr. A. G. Roshdestwenski, of Moscow, has made many careful measurements of the head in 1,600 Russians. He finds that the relative as well as the absolute size of the head depends upon the growth of the body. This is true of both sexes. The absolute size of the head is greater in big people; the relative size is less. Men attain the maximum size of the cranium earlier than women, men reaching the full size at 20 years, women five years later. This seems a novel result.

In a paper on the height of the young men fit for military service in Sweden (Heft 4), Dr. J. Vilh Hultkranz claims that the Swedes are about the same height as the Norwegians. The average height of the young men fitted for military service has increased by about five millimetres between 1887 and 1894. Similar observations have been made in Norway. From recent measurements it appears that the Bosnians rank with the Scandinavians and Scottish as the tallest peoples in Europe.

We have received the first number of the Kinderfehler, a journal for Pedagogic Pathology and Therapeutics, which is published with promises of support from many well-known writers. The acting editor is J. Trüper, Superintendent of the Training Institution at Sophienshöhe, near Jena. The number has 35 pages; the principal articles are “A Group of Children affected by Moral Degeneration,” by F. Kölle, of Zurich; “On the Care of Abnormal Children in the United States,” by W. S. Monroe, Stanford University, California; and “On the Matricide Coombes,” by the Rev. W. D. Morrison. There are interesting reports upon the psychology of children and similar subjects from the literature of Italy, by Paola Lombroso, and from that of France by Lucien Arréat. This promises to be a useful periodical. It will come out in six numbers during the year. It is published at Langensalza, and costs 3 marks.