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publication was superintended hj Professor F. W. Putnam. In ad- 

 dition to the ordinary finds in such localities, some striking facts 

 are elicited. " The mounds contain human bones, broken up in the 

 same way as the bones of edible animals, and are believed to be the 

 remains of cannibal feasts. They contain fragments of the bones and 

 teeth of extinct animals, as the mastodon, elephant, horse, ox, turtle, 

 manatee, and a cetacean. These have undergone changes which 

 show that they were not contemporaneous with the builders of the 

 mounds." 



The Ninth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum 

 of American Archgeology and Ethnology gives an account of the 

 work done during the year, the report of collections and distribu- 

 tions, and an index to all the volumes of the series. The portraits 

 of Mr. Peabody and Jeffries Wyman accompany the work. Professsor 

 Hay den has issued during the year No. I. of the second volume of 

 his Bulletin. It is devoted almost wholly to archaeology and anthro- 

 pology. The articles are by Messrs. Holmes, Jackson, Bessels, and 

 Barber, and contain profuse illustrations of the cliff-dwellings and 

 the old Pueblo pottery. The Professor has also had plaster models 

 made of the best preserved cliff structures. 



Dr. Palmer has sent to the Smithsonian Institution an account of a 

 mound excavated near St. Georges, Utah, which gives evidence of 

 having been built up by reconstructing dwellings over the sites of 

 those Avhich had been burned, possibly on account of desertion at 

 the death of the former occupant. 



Principal J.W. Dawson read before the Victoria Institute, London, 

 March 20th, a paper entitled " Fossil Agriculture in America." 



The Geographical Society of Lyons publishes a paper, by M. Emile 

 Guimet, upon the " Origin of the Ancient Mexicans." The object 

 of the pamphlet is to overthrow the theory that relics of Egyptian 

 influence are traceable in Mexican remains. 



The most notable publication of the year upon North American 

 archaeology is a profusely illustrated work by Dr. Charles Rau, based 

 upon the specimens in the National Museum. It has been issued by 

 the Smithsonian Institution among the " Contributions to Knowl- 

 edge." The archaeological exhibition at the Centennial, under the 

 direction of the same gentleman, has been the means of doubling 

 the material and value of the national collection. 



Middle America. In the Proceedings of the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society, 1875, is a long and elaborate article on the Indians of 

 Costa Rica, which makes several allusions to the antiquities of that 

 country. Mr. Hyde Clarke's paper, read before the London Anthro- 

 pological Institute, July 25th, on the " Worship of Siva in Central 

 America," opens a new field of thought with reference to American 

 mythology. 



