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ARCHAEOLOGY. 

 AMERICA. 



The Smithsonian Institution has published a quarto pam- 

 phlet of forty pages, by Mr. Wm. H. Dall, on the Remains 

 of Later Prehistoric Man, obtained from the caves in the 

 Catherina Archipelago, Alaska Territory, and especially from 

 the caves of the Aleutian Islands. The work is descriptive 

 of a group of mummies presented to the National Museum 

 in 1874, and is elegantly illustrated by ten heliotype plates. 

 The annual report of the Institution contains the usual 

 amount of archasological matter. Professor Charles Ran, 

 the Curator of the Museum of Ethnology, describes the Stock 

 in Trade of an Aboriginal Lapidary, which illustrates the 

 subject of the division of labor among the earliest inhabi- 

 tants of this continent. The paper is based on a large col- 

 lection of jasper objects, mostly unfinished, ploughed up in 

 Lawrence County, Miss. Professor Ran also contributes a 

 paper on a Gold Ornament from a Mound in Florida. The 

 author is inclined to think that mound -building was con- 

 tinued in this country after its occupation by Europeans. 

 Indeed, the analysis of the ornament proves it to be an 

 alloy of which Spanish coins were made not much more 

 than a century ago. Dr. C. C. Jones, of Atlanta, Ga., con- 

 tributes to the report three papers. The first is descrip- 

 tive of Bird-shaped Tumuli in Putnam County, they being 

 the first animal mounds discovered so far south; the sec- 

 ond relates to Tumuli on the Savannah River, visited by 

 William Bartram in 1776 ; and the third is upon Ancient Tu- 

 muli on the Oconee River. The description of Polychrome 

 Beads in Relation to American Archaeology, by Professor 

 Haldeman and Mr. A. M. Harrison, approaches a subject 

 which has an important bearing upon the age of many of 

 our mounds and earthworks. There are descriptive pa- 

 pers upon Mounds, Earthworks, Shell -heaps, and Relics, in 

 California, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, Il- 

 linois, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Penn- 

 sylvania, and New York. The Smithsonian Institution 

 has issued a pamphlet of directions to collectors and ob- 

 servers for the purpose of illustrating the forms and dis- 



