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Among periodicals, the Revue de l'Ecole d'Anthropologie de Paris, published by the professors, treats of all phases of anthropology, and the American Anthropologist, edited by F. W. Hodge for the American Anthropological Association, and intended as "a medium of communication between students of all branches of anthropology," contains much that is of interest from the present stand-point.

It would appear that in most men the decline of sexual feeling and potency is very gradual, and at first manifests itself in increased power of control. See, in vol. i, the study of "The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity." Among animals, also, spring litters are often said to be the best. Bossi's results are summarized in Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle, Sept., 1891.

Cf., in French, G. Variot, "Origine des Préjugés Populaires sur les Envies," Bulletin Société d'Anthropologie, Paris, June 18, 1891. Variot rejects the doctrine absolutely, Bloch accepts it, Ballantyne speaks cautiously. J.G. Kiernan has shown how many of the alleged cases are negatived by the failure to take this fact into consideration.

See. e.g., Papillault, Bulletin Société d'Anthropologie, 1899, p. 446. Guinard, Art. "Castration," Richet's Dictionnaire de Physiologie. J. Whitridge Williams, Obstetrics, 1903, p. 132. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1878, p. 19. C. Pitre, Medicina Populare Siciliana, p. 47.

'It was quite dry inside the shell, and I worked away at the fish with my spear, till he saw reason to open his shell, and out I came. Then the good woman laughed; and Pivi and his two wives lived happy ever afterwards. Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie. The Elf Maiden Once upon a time two young men living in a small village fell in love with the same girl.

In "The Evolution of Modesty," in the first volume of these Studies, and again in the fifth volume in discussing urolagnia in the study of "Erotic Symbolism," the mutual reactions of the sexual and excretory centres were fully dealt with. "La Morale Sexuelle," Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle, Jan., 1907.

For a study of the semen and its constituents, see Florence, "Du Sperme," Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle, 1895. J. Hunter, Essays and Observations, vol. i, p. 189. As regards one part of Australia, Walter Roth, Ethnological Studies Among the Queensland Aborigines, p. 174. Sir H.H. Johnston, British Central Africa, p. 438. Cap. VII, pp. 327-357, "De Spermaticis virilis usu Medico,"

Paul Topinard's Elements d'Anthropologie Generale is one of the best-known and most comprehensive French works on the technical phases of anthropology; but Mortillet's Le Prehistorique has a more popular interest, owing to its chapters on primitive industries, though this work also contains much that is rather technical.