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Belted Kingfisher" ; in 1ST5, "American Stone Implements," "Hab- 

 its of the Kingfisher," " Occurrence of Flint Scalping-Knives in New- 

 Jersey," " Supposed Marriage Emblem of American Indian Origin," 

 " Iron Axes from West Virginia," and " Stone Masks from New Jer- 

 sey" ; in 1876, "American Stone Tubes and Tobacco-Pipes," and 

 " American Flint Skin-scrapers " ; and, in 1883, a note on the origin 

 of the American dipper's power of diving and aquatic habits, being a 

 reply to the Duke of Argyll's objections to an evolutionary view of 

 the origin. 



Of eight contributions to "Science News," which was published 

 by Ernest Ingersoll and W. C. Wyckoff, in 1878 and 1879, one en- 

 titled " Do Opossums play 'Possum ? " is noticeable because it is an 

 endeavor to show that the animal when attacked or captured is over- 

 come by fear, and does not designedly simulate death ; and develops 

 the view which was subsequently published by Romanes as entertained 

 by Darwin in his posthumous essay on " Instinct," which was printed 

 by Romanes, in his "Mental Evolution in Animals." Abbott's 

 independent conclusion as expressed in this paper was published 

 four years prior to the appearance of Romanes's book or of Dar- 

 win's essay. 



In "The Popular Science Monthly " he has published papers on 

 "Certain Phases of Bird-Life," "Birds' Nests," the "American Chip- 

 munk," " To what Extent is Evolution visible ? " " An Inscribed In- 

 dian Tablet," " Migration of Inland Birds," " Traces of a pre-Indian 

 People," " The Nest and Eggs of the Thistle-Bird," " Some Rambles 

 of a Naturalist," " Archaeological Frauds," and "Animal Weather- 

 Lore." Among his contributions to other volumes are the " Report on 

 Fishes of the Delaware River," and " Winter Habits of Fishes of the 

 Delaware River," in the United States Fish Commissioner's Report 

 for 1875-'76 ; " Catalogue of Vertebrate Animals of New Jersey," in 

 the State Geological Report for 1868 ; " Palaeolithic Man in Amer- 

 ica," in Kingsley's " Standard Natural History " ; " The Stone Age in 

 New Jersey," in the Smithsonian Annual Report for 1875 ; papers on 

 Chipped Stone Implements, Stone Mortars and Pestles, Cooking Ves- 

 sels, Wood Implements, Pipes, Sculptures, Bone Weapons, etc., in 

 Wheeler's " Report upon United States Geographical Surveys west of 

 the One Hundredth Meridian " ; on " The Discovery of Supposed 

 Palaeolithic Implements from the Glacial Drift in the Valley of the 

 Delaware River," near Trenton, New Jersey, in the " Reports of the 

 Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology," for 1876 

 and 1878 ; " An Historic Account of Discoveries' of Palaeolithic Imple- 

 ments in the Trenton Gravels," in the " Proceedings " of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History for 1881, and of the " Discovery of Human 

 Remains in the same Gravel," in the " Proceedings " for 1883. 



Also, from time to time he contributed to young people's magazines, 

 such as the " Riverside " and " St. Nicholas," and more recently to 



