258 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Tablet, J. D. Moody ; the Mounds on Rock River at Sterling, 

 W. C. Holbrook, American Naturalist, Nov. ; Aboriginal Pot- 

 tery at Salt Springs, 111., G. E. Sellers, Popular Science Monthly, 

 Sept. ; Ancient Earthworks in Indiana, Professor R. P. Brown, 

 Western Review, April; Missouri Mound-builders, Judge West, 

 same journal ; the Graves of the Mound-builders in Scott and 

 Mississippi counties, Mo., H. N. Rust, before the American 

 Association; Die Culturvolker Alt- Amerikas, Dr. Gustav 

 Bruhl, Parts I.-LX., Cincinnati ; Reports on the West Coast 

 of California, Paul Schumacher, Hayden's Bulletin, III., i. ; 

 on the same by Dr. H. Yarrow in Lieut. Wheeler's Report 

 for 1876, and by Rev. Stephen Bowers in a manuscript de- 

 scription of a superb collection sent to the National Museum. 

 The surveying parties of Professor Ilayden, Major Powell, 

 and Lieut. Wheeler have all paid some attention to the ar- 

 cha3ology of the regions traversed, and their accounts will 

 be found in the reports of these surveys. The plaster mod- 

 els of cliff-dwellings and pueblos by W. H. Jackson are al- 

 ready world-renowned. The following general discussions 

 are worthy of note : 



The Caching of Stone Implements, J. F. Snyder, Smithsonian 

 Rep., 1876 ; the Early Man of North America, A. R. Grote, 

 Popular Science Monthly, March ; Supposed Evidence of the 

 Existence of Interglaciai American Man, Dr. Daniel Wilson, 

 Canadian Journal, Oct. ; Burial Customs of the Ancient 

 Tribes of Indians, R. S. Robertson, before the American As- 

 sociation ; the Stone Age in America, several papers before 

 the Congress of Americanists ; Mound-builders and the Pueb- 

 los, the same ; American Antiquities, J. C. Heaviside ; Aborig- 

 inal Shell-money, R. E. Stearns, American Naturalist, June; 

 Mound-explorations (short descriptions), Smithsonian Rep., 



1876. 



MIDDLE AMERICA. 



Interesting communications on Mexican archaeology are to 

 be found in " Anales del Museo Nacional de Mejico," entregas 

 i., ii. ; the paper by Ad. F. Bandelier on Ancient Mexican 

 Warfare, in Peabody Museum Rep. X., is a very important 

 contribution ; Dr. Georg Fischer, of Freiburg, who may be 

 called the creator of a department of anthropology, contrib- 

 utes to Archie, Heft 3, an illustrated paper on Mineralogy 

 as the Handmaid of Archaeology, with special reference to 



