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race, whose exquisite works, done six thousand years ago, 

 are now rendered accessible to man. 12 A, X., 138. 



KJOEKKENMODDING IN" NORWAY. 



Zeigler has lately discovered near Drontheim, in Norway, 

 what is said to be the first illustration of the kjoekkenmod- 

 ding (or shell heaps) yet found in that country, this consist- 

 ing of a large mass of broken animal bones and shells mixed 

 with a little earth. In the centre of this was a dark layer, in- 

 dicating traces of fire, in the form of bits of charcoal, etc. 

 30 C\ January, 1874, 5. 



FURTHER EXPLORATIONS BY DI CESNOLA. 



Since his return to Cyprus, General Di Cesnola, the United 

 States consul, has resumed his archaeological researches, the 

 magnificent results of which, for previous years, are in the 

 possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. 

 In the neighborhood of Salamis he has already found several 

 sculptures of the Graeco-Roman period. He has also discov- 

 ered some interesting inscribed objects and a cave containing 

 a large quantity of petrified human bones. 15 A,May 9, 

 1874,630. 



ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF BRITISH INDIA. 



Professor J. Burgess has lately been appointed by the East 

 Indian government archaeological surveyor and reporter to 

 the government for Western India. Mr. Burgess has made 

 a large number of collections for a work illustrative of Ajanta 

 and other cave-temples on the frontiers of the Nizam's terri- 

 tories, and expects to resume his researches with a view of 

 securing further material for this work. Trubner' s American 

 and Oriental Literary Record, 1874, VIII., 189. 



THE SPECIES OF AMERICAN SQUIRRELS. 



Mr. J. A. Allen, well known as one of the most accomplish- 

 ed and thorough of American zoologists, has lately published 

 a synopsis of the general results obtained by him from an in- 

 vestigation of the American Sciuridce, or mammals belonging 

 to the squirrel group, including the squirrels proper, the fly- 

 ing-squirrels, ground-squirrels, marmots, etc. As the result of 

 his inquiries, based upon the immense amount and variety of 



