clii GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



exhumed, and the amount of mortars, pestles, stone imple- 

 ments of every sort, pottery, burial deposits, etc., is simply 

 incredible. A partial report of his labors will be found in 

 the Smithsonian Report for 1874. The finest specimens of his 

 collection will be exhibited at the Centennial. Further re- 

 ports on California will be found in the paper of A. S.Hud- 

 son, M.D., " On Shell-mounds in Oakland, California" (Proc. 

 Cal. Acad., 1874), and that of Mr. L. G. Yates, on " Aborigi- 

 nal Mounds in California" (Am. Assoc, 1875). The research- 

 es of Stephen Powers in Northern California, and of Rev. 

 Stephen Bowers in Santa Barbara, are also to be noticed. 



The government surveyors of the Great Interior Basin 

 have been as fortunate as usual in discovering relics of an- 

 cient populations. 



Messrs. Holmes and Jackson have examined a series of 

 rock-shelter dwellings, towers, burial-places, etc., and have 

 recovered a great number of inscriptions from the face of the 

 cliffs in Southwestern Colorado and Northeastern Arizona, 

 on the River San Juan and its tributaries. The most inter- 

 esting: of their discoveries in 1874 are described in Bancroft 

 ("Native Races," Vol. IV., Chap. XI.). Their last summer's 

 finds are graphically detailed in the JV. Y. Herald letters. 



Professor R.J. Farquharson read a paper before the Amer- 

 ican Association at Detroit on "Recent Mound Explorations 

 at Davenport, Iowa." Mr. Henry Oilman gave an account 

 of the ancient men of the great lakes, with especial refer- 

 ence to flattened tibiae. In the Smithsonian Report for 1875 

 the same author will describe skull perforations from the 

 same district, of which he has observed about twenty ex- 

 amples. The following communications were also made to 

 the Detroit meeting: "On Mound Explorations in Kent 

 County, Michigan," by Professor E. A. Strong and W. C. Cof- 

 finberry ; " On Archeology in Wyoming," by F. B. Comstock; 

 "On Ancient Structures of New Mexico," by E.D.Cope ; "On 

 Indian Mounds and Shell-heaps near Pensacola, Florida," by 

 Dr. George Sternberg. 



Dr. C. Schmidt read before the German Association at Mu- 

 nich a memoir on American mounds compared with remains 

 of old mounds in Southern Germany. Mr. Joseph Wilcox 

 describes in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia an ancient burial custom in Tennessee. 



