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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



stick, or aflafl. Recently Mrs. Nuttall had the pleasure of discov- 

 ering at the old castle of Ambras (Germany) a fine shield of an- 

 cient Mexican feather-work. In the last number of the Interna- 

 tionales Archiv fur Ethnographie she publishes an exhaustive 

 and handsomely illustrated article upon the subject of feather 



shields from Mexico. In a 

 recent visit to Florence. 

 Italy, Mrs. Nuttall discov- 

 ered in the library an Aztec- 

 manuscript with pictures. 

 It turned out to be a treatise 

 upon dress and ornament, 

 and contains a text in Span- 

 ish letters. This, reprinted 

 in fac-simile, with critical 

 notes and an English trans- 

 lation, Mrs. Nuttall will pre- 

 sent at the next congress of 

 Americanists in October. 

 Miss Alice C. Fletcher, al- 

 though a fellow of Harvard 

 University, assistant of the 

 Peabody Museum, and em- 

 ployed in the Indian Bu- 

 reau, is really a free lance in 

 American ethnology. She 

 is more she is a firm friend 

 of the Indian, and has shown herself so in many, many ways. As 

 special Indian agent she has personally located five thousand In- 

 dians upon their own lands under the " Land in Severalty Bill." 

 Her studies in sociology and religious beliefs among the Ponkas, 

 Winnebagoes, etc., have been scientifically carried on. She is 

 about to publish a work upon Ponka music, that has occupied 

 much time and hard labor during several years back. All who 

 know Miss Fletcher or who are acquainted with her work expect 

 this work to be a most valuable contribution to knowledge. 



Three periodicals in America busy themselves with anthro- 

 pology the American Antiquarian, the American Anthropolo- 

 gist, and the Journal of American Folk-lore. The Journal of 

 American Folk-lore is the organ of the American Folk-lore Soci- 

 ety, and is under the editorship of Mr. W. W. Newell. The Ameri- 

 can Anthropologist has grown out of the Anthropological Society 

 of Washington ; it is coming to be more and more a representa- 

 tive journal of our national work in the field of anthropology. 

 The American Antiquarian deserves a longer notice, because it is 

 the pioneer journal. Mainly occupied with American archaeology, 



Sir Daniel Wilson. 



