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peared during the year: An Ancient Implement of Wood 

 from near East Windsor, Conn.,E. W. Ellsworth, Smithsonian 

 Rep., 1876; the Dighton Rock Inscription, Charles Race, 

 American Anthropological Association ; Palaeolithic Imple- 

 ments with reference to Eskimo Occupation of North Amer- 

 ica, Mr. Berlin, same meeting; the Discovery of Supposed 

 Palaeolithic Implements in the Glacial Drift of the Delaware 

 River, C. C. Abbott, Peabody Museum Rep. X.; Explora- 

 tion of a Mound in Lee County, Va.,Lucien Carr, Peabody 

 Museum Rep. X. ; Ancient Mica -quarrying in North Car- 

 olina, C. D. Smith, Smithsonian Rep., 1876 (some of the blocks 

 detached by the aborigines have sold as high as $200) ; 

 on Prehistoric Remains in Western North Carolina, Alexis 

 A. Julian, paper before the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 New York; the Shell-mounds of Florida, F. D. Lente, M.D., 

 in Serai - Tropical for March and April (the same subject was 

 discussed bv Isaiah Greijor before the State Archaeological 

 Association, Ohio, and by A. Ecker in Ar chin fur Anthro}x>- 

 logic, parts i., ii.) ; Cranial Perforations by the Ancient Mound- 

 builders, Henry Gillman, American Association. Papers on 

 the Antiquities of Wisconsin were read before the State His- 

 torical Society (in Vol. III. of the Proceedings, we have the 

 Ancient Civilization of America, W.L. P. Nicodemus; Report 

 of Committee on Exploration of Mounds near Madison ; Cop- 

 per Tools found within the State of Wisconsin, Professor J. D. 

 Butler. A pamphlet on Prehistoric Wisconsin, illustrated 

 with heliotype plates, has been published by the same author) ; 

 on Wisconsin Mounds, Moses Strong, Smithsonian Rep., 1876. 

 The Davenport Academy of Natural Science lias issued Vol. 

 II., Part I., of Proceedings, containing, among other important 

 papers, an illustrated account of Inscribed Tablets found by 

 Rev. J. Gass, and discussions about their authenticity and 

 value, by Dr. Farquharson (the society has erected a building 

 for its meetings and collections). Further papers on the same 

 subject are, Explorations in Southeastern Ohio, Professor B. 

 Andrews, Peabody Museum Rep. X. ; Sculptured Rocks and 

 Cup -markings in Ohio and Kentucky, Dr. Daniel Wilson, 

 Toronto, pamphlet ; Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the 

 American Bottom, 111., by Henry R. Howland, Bulletin of the 

 Buffalo Society of Natural Science, March 2 ; on the Mound- 

 builders of Illinois, 'Western JZevieio, Nov. ; on the Rockfort 



