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troubles which culmmated in the famous BUick Hawk war. The Foxes 

 claim that as a body they took no part in this. However owing to con- 

 tinued disturbances with Indians and the pressure of white settlers, the 

 Sauks and Foxes sold their remammg lands in Iowa and agreed to remove 

 to Kansas. Nevertheless small bands of the Foxes returned continually 

 to Iowa, and it is even likely that a number of individual Foxes never did 

 remove to Kansas. In 1856 the Iowa legislature passed a bill enabling 

 the Foxes to settle in that state. Accordingly they purchased land with 

 their own money, near Tama, Iowa. From time to time this has been 

 added to till they now owti about 3000 acres. The maui body of the 

 Foxes as a matter of fact did not leave Kansas till the outbreak of the 

 Civil War when MAmlnwaniga'', the Fox chief, was unwilling to sign a 

 proposal to allot the Sauks and Foxes in Kansas. He was deposed 

 from his chieftainship by the agent for this reason and he went to Iowa 

 with nearly all the Foxes. In 1896 the state relinquished jurisdiction of 

 the Foxes to the federal government, and at the same time certain claims 

 of the Foxes against the Sauks were adjusted. There are some Foxes 

 enrolled A\ith the Sauks of Kansas and Oklahoma; the present population 

 of those in Iowa is about 356. 



As an abstract of Dr. INIichelson's paper "Notes on the Social Organiza- 

 tion of the Fox Indians," read at the recent meeting of the American 

 Anthropological Association and largely incorporated in his present ad- 

 dress, A\'ill appear in Science, the main facts of Fox sociology are here 

 presented in but brief form. The tribe is divided into a number of ex- 

 ogamic gentes with animal names, which gentes perform certain courtesies 

 for each other such as burial and acting as ceremonial attendants at 

 clan-feasts. The tribe furthermore has a dual division in membership 

 which is thus regulated: the first child, boy or girl, belongs to the side 

 to which the father does, and so on alternately. The side the mother 

 belongs to is immaterial. These divisions are not exogamic, and are 

 not, as can be readily seen, in any fixed relation to the various gentes. 

 The dual division figures prominently in clan-feasts, and not merely in 

 rivalry in athletics, as has been thought. The folklore and mythology 

 of the Fox Indians is rich. A comparative stud}^ shows the contact of 

 two cultures, namely, that of the woodlands, and that of the plains. 

 European elements also enter into them. 



At the 471st meetmg of the Society, held January 20, 1914, at the 

 National ISIuseum, Mr. Wm. H. Babcock, its recent Secretary, addressed 

 the Society on The North Atlantic Island of Brazil. 



The speaker suggested that the Island of Brazil, which is conspicuous 

 as a round figure in the Atlantic in the latitude of southern Ireland on 

 many mediaeval maps, maj^ be the projecting northeastern corner of 

 America, which includes the Gulf of St. La^^Tence. 



He exhibited twenty lantern-slide maps, beginning with a recent map 

 to show first the obstacles which defeated many attempts to reach Brazil 

 until John Cabot made his way thru ; secondly the structure of the Amer- 

 ican region above mentioned, which has islands in its included expanse of 



