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Major J. W. Powell, in his report of the Explorations of 

 the Colorado River of the West, gives some notes and il- 

 lustrations of the ethnology of that district. His long ac- 

 quaintance with the people, and their perfect confidence in 

 him, make him one of the most reliable historians of their 

 culture. He has a large collection of photographs of their 

 principal personages, of men, women, and children, singly 

 and in groups, engaged in their characteristic occupations. 

 He has also contributed to the National Museum a fine col- 

 lection of vessels, clothing, ornaments, implements, weapons, 

 gambling apparatus, and art-work, many of which will grace 

 the Centennial. The whole subject of aboriginal life within 

 the United States will be fully represented on that occasion. 

 A pamphlet of instructions has been sent to Indian agents 

 and others, and materials are already coming in from every 

 quarter, and of the most interesting character. It is also 

 proposed to display the living tribes by a family of four or 

 five individuals in a special reservation in the Philadelphia 

 Park, with their own outfit of clothing, dwelling, imple- 

 ments, etc. 



The massive work of Hubert Howe Bancroft on the 

 " Native Races of the Pacific States," whose first volume 

 was merely noticed last year, is now completed. The hearty 

 thanks of all students of American ethnology are due to the 

 author for the zeal and patience with which he has prose- 

 cuted his labor. We have no space for a summary of the 

 contents of a work which in order to be appreciated must 

 not only be read but carefully studied. The 160 pages of 

 index is itself a remarkable production. 



Dr. J. H. Trumbull delivered a long and scrupulously pre- 

 pared address upon the "American Language" before the 

 American Philological Association, Newport, July 13, 1875. 



Das Ausland (November 9, 1874) has a carefully written 

 article on the linguistic researches of Dr. Hermann Berendt 

 in Central America. 



Mr. Henry Hague has recently sent to the National Mu- 

 seum the instruments of a full band of music of the Tactic 

 Indians, among them the marimba, so graphically described 

 by Arthur Mo relet. 



Franz Keller, in his accounts of his tour on the Amazon 

 and Madeira Rivers, describes the habit of eating clay prac- 



