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and Art, the American Naturalist, the Popular Science 3Ionth- 

 ly, and the New York Tribune extras ; to the London Acad- 

 emy, Athenceum, and Nature ; to the Geographical Maga- 

 zine / to Comptes Mendus, Ausland, and Gaea / as helping to 

 keep the world posted upon general knowledge of the subject. 



PROGRESS OF PREHISTORIC ETHNOLOGY. 



America. Mr. William H. Dall has collected among the 

 Aleutian Islands, and especially in Southwestern Alaska, from 

 the graves and burial-caves, a large and interesting series of 

 prehistoric objects. 



Mr. Henry Gilrnan will publish in the forthcoming Smith- 

 sonian Report a paper on the Mound -builders and Platy- 

 cnemism in Michigan. 



Mr. Paul Schumacher has sent to the National Museum 

 at Washington, from the shell-heaps of the Santa Barbara Isl- 

 ands, some of the most beautiful specimens of soapstone pots 

 and stone mortars which have been collected in this countrv. 

 Other objects of exquisite workmanship show a high degree 

 of civilization to have existed on these islands. No. 259 of 

 the Smithsonian publications will be a paper on the "Antiq- 

 uities of Tennessee," by Mr. Joseph Jones. It will appear in 

 the "Contributions to Knowledge." 



Great enthusiasm exists among the different states upon 

 the subject of preserving the relics of their early history. At 

 the last Industrial Exhibition in Cincinnati, Ohio, there was 

 a fine display of prehistoric objects. In the Indiana State 

 Fair, Mr. Daniel Hough received a prize for a fine collection 

 of Mound-builders' material. Professor E. T. Cox, state geolo- 

 gist of Indiana, is locating every mound and prehistoric 

 fortified place in the state, and will give in his reports a 

 "complete history of all the relics, so far as they can be had, 

 making a special volume on the subject." 



Professor Joseph Leidy figures and describes in Professor 

 Hayden's last report (1872), "Some Remains of Primitive 

 Art in the Bridger Basin of Southern Wyoming ;" and in 

 the same volume Dr. C. Thomas gives an illustrated account 

 of some ancient mounds in Dakota. 



Professor William M. Gabb continues his researches in 



Costa Rica, and has brought to light from the graves, etc., 



of the Talamanca District a large quantit} 7 of potter}'-, stone 



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