186 abstracts: anthropology 



PALEONTOLOGY. — Bibliographic index of American Ordovician and 

 Silurian fossils. Ray S. Bassler. U. S. National Museum 

 Bulletin 92. Pp. 1521, 4 pis. (tables). 1915. 

 This work gives the entire bibliography and synonomy of the hun- 

 dreds of genera and thousands of species found in North America 

 in the rocks of the Ordovician and Silurian periods. In addition, the 

 genotypes of the genera are given, and also the formation, the type 

 locality, and the known wider distribution of the species. In cases 

 where the U. S. National Museum has type material, this is noted and 

 the Museum catalog numbers are cited. At the end of the bibliog- 

 raphy proper is given an index of specific names and their generic 

 combinations (pages 1342-1406), a bibliographic classification and 

 index of genera (1407-1440), faunal lists of American Ozarkian to low- 

 est Helderbergian species (1441-1509), and a list of American Ordovic- 

 ian and Silurian formations showing their place in the geologic column 

 (1511-1521). Finally at the end of the work are four very important 

 correlation tables of the geologic divisions and their occurrence in the 

 various basins of deposit. R. S. B. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. — Kickapoo tales. William Jones and Truman 

 Michelson. Publications of the American Ethnological Society, 

 9:1-143. 1915. 



The texts of these tales were collected by the late William Jones in 

 1903; the translations are nearly all by Truman Michelson, as are 

 all the comparative notes. The notes on Kickapoo grammar are based 

 mainly on the materials left by William Jones, edited by Truman 

 Michelson, though some observations by the latter have also been in- 

 corporated. The notes on the conditions of the texts are likewise 

 by the latter. 



The tales are, so far as is known, the first extended publication of 

 Kickapoo folk-lore. They are eleven in number: three Culture Hero 

 tales, three Animal tales, and five miscellaneous tales. A compara- 

 tive study shows that both woodland and plains elements occur. The 

 question as to which predominates cannot be answered until more 

 material is available. That European elements also occur is clear. 

 Tentatively we may say that Kickapoo folk-tales and mythology are 

 closest to Fox, which is in accordance with the linguistic facts. T. M. 



