402 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Edifices. 



The Reconstructions of Pueblos, by Mr. W. II. Jackson, of 

 the Hayden Survey, form an attractive feature in several of 

 our American museums, and won great applause at Paris. 

 The whole subject will be discussed in an illustrated volume 

 soon to be issued by the Survey. Mr. Powers, in "Powell's 

 Contributions," vol. iii., gives considerable space to the de- 

 scription of Aboriginal Domiciles and Domestic Structures. 



Vessels. 



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This subject includes whatever is used for collecting, trans- 

 porting, storing, preparing, and serving liquid and solid ali- 

 ment. The public taste is turned, just at this time, to pot- 

 tery. In addition to the elegant and diversified materials 

 in our public museums, there are many private collections 

 of great value. The Harpers have published another cred- 

 itable Ceramic Hand-book, by Jennie J. Young. Mr. J. 

 Llewellyn Jewett has also published the " History of the 

 Ceramic Art in Great Britain from the Earliest Times to the 



Present Day." 



Implements. 



The Reports of M. Girard de Rialle and Dr. Bordier upon 

 Ethnology, at the Paris Exposition, contain many allusions 

 to the superb exhibitions of aboriginal implements from all 

 parts of the world. The remark of Dr. Bordier upon the 

 entire absence of the bow throughout Polynesia, although it 

 is the favorite weapon of the Papuans, is one of more than 

 passing interest. Apropos of the assertion of Major Powell, 

 that the North American Indians never used poisoned ar- 

 rows, Dr. Messer contributes a paper to the Journal of the 

 Anthropological Institute, p. 259, on the Reputed Poisonous 

 Nature of the Arrows of the South Sea Islanders. 



Upon the implements and methods employed in valuing 

 and measuring, attention is called to Mr. Trowbridge's article 

 in the Popular Science Monthly for February, on Counting 

 by Aid of the Fingers; to a paper by J. Flinders Pctrie, be- 

 fore the Anthropological Institute, April 0, on Inductive Me- 

 trology, to deduce the unit of measure used by ancient peo- 

 ples from the dimensions of existing remains; and to M. Le- 

 normant's work, " La Monnaie dans l'Antiquite," Paris. 



