O. MISCELLANEOUS. 5*75 



The officers elected for the ensuing meeting, which is to 

 take place at Detroit, Michigan, on the second Wednesday 

 in August, 1875, are president, Julius E. Hilgard ; vice- 

 presidents, H. A. Newton, of New Haven, of Section A; 

 J.W.Dawson, of Montreal, of Section B; general secretary, 

 Samuel H. Sc udder, of Boston ; permanent secretary, F. W. 

 Putnam, of Salem; treasurer, W. S.Vaux, of Philadelphia; 

 secretary of Section A, S. P. Langley, of Alleghany, Pennsyl- 

 vania ; secretary of Section B, N. S. Shaler, of Newport, Ken- 

 tucky ; chairman of the chemical sub-section of Section A, 

 S. W. Johnson, of New Haven. 



As might have been expected, very few of the papers pre- 

 sented contained any thing new or important, most of the 

 specialists present having previously announced their dis- 

 coveries in the scientific journals, without waiting for the 

 slow course of time to bring: round the annual meeting of 

 the association. 



As usual, the daily papers had their representatives, and 

 copious reports were made and published. By far the most 

 complete of these, however, was that of the New York Trlb- 

 une, which detailed one of its own force to do full justice to 

 the occasion. A very full report, almost anticipating the 

 official volume of proceedings, has already made its appear- 

 ance as a Tribune extra. 



SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PEABODY MUSEUM, CAM- 

 BRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 



The seventh annual report of the Peabody Museum of 

 American Archaeology and Ethnology connected with Har- 

 vard University, by Professor Jeffreys Wyman, has just been 

 published by the trustees. Like its predecessors, it contains 

 matter of much interest, from the variety of additions in the 

 ethnological field to this rapidly growing establishment, 

 among which special prominence is given to the objects re- 

 ceived from the collections by Professor Agassiz during the 

 ILissler expedition. The most important of these are sundry 

 crania and ethnological objects collected from the ancient 

 graves or burial-places in Peru by Mr. T.J. Hutchinson, the 

 British consul at Callao, and presented by him to Professor 

 Agassiz. 



The next principal source of supply during the year has 



