10 CONTENTS. 



Anthropology— Continued. Pa e e - 



Ruins in White River Canon, Pima Comity, Arizona, by R. T. Burr, M. 



D. , Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S.A 333 



Mounds in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, by Thomas Armstrong, of 

 Eipon, Fond du Lac County, Wis 335 



Mounds near Quincy, 111., and in Wisconsin, by William Gilbert An- 

 derson, of Quincy, 111 341 



Notes on Some of the Principal Mounds in the Des Moines Valley, 

 by Samuel B. Evans, of Ottumwa, Iowa 344 



Composition of Ancient Pottery found near the Mouth of Chequest 

 Creek, at Pittsburg, on the Des Moines Eiver, by Robert N. and 

 Charles Dahlberg 349 



Prehistoric Evidences in Missouri, by G. C. Broadhead 350 



Mounds in Muscatine County, Iowa, and Rock Island County, Illinois, 

 by Theron Thompson 359 



Antiquities of Rock Island County, Illinois, by Adolph Tcellner 363 



Stone Cists nfear Highland, Madison County, Illinois, by Arthur 

 Oehler 366 



Mounds in Pike County, Illinois, by Brainerd Mitchell 367 



Mounds in the Spoon River Valley, Illinois, by W. H. Adams 368 



Mounds in Franklin County, Indiana, by Edgar R. Quick, of Brook- 

 ville, Ind 370 



Mounds and Earthworks of Rush County, Indiana, by F. Jackman 374 



Primitive Manufacture of Spear and Arrow Points along the Line of the 

 Savannah River, by Charles C. Jones, Jr., of Augusta, Ga 376 



Mica Beds in Alabama, by William Gesner, of Birmingham, Jeffer- 

 son County, Ala - 382 



Mounds in Washington County, Mississippi, by James Hough, of Ham- 

 ilton, Ohio 383 



Mounds in Moorehouse Parish, Louisiana, by Benjamin H. Brodnax, 



of Plantersville, La 386 



Wampum Belts of the Six Nations, by W. M. Beauchamp, of Bald- 



winsville, N. Y 389 



Indian Relics from Schoharie, N. Y., by Frank D. Andrews, of Vine- 

 land, N. J 391 



Preliminary Explorations among the Indian Mounds in Southern Flor- 

 ida, by S. T. Walker, of Clear Water, Florida 392 



Report on the Shell Heaps of Tampa Bay, Florida, by S. T. WALKER, 

 of Clear Water, Fla 413 



Mounds on Gideon's Farm, near Excelsior, Hennepin County, Minnesota, 

 by Frank II. Nutter, of West Roxbury, Mass 422 



Summary of Correspondence of the Smithsonian Institution previous 

 to January 1, 1880, in answer to Circular No. 316, by Otis T. Mason. 428 



Anthropological Investigations during the Year 1879, by Otis T. Mason. 449 



Index to Papers on Anthropology published by the Smithsonian Iu- 



si it ut ion, 1847 to 1878, by George H. Boehmer 476 



On the Present Fundamental Principles of Physics, by Prof. Dr. Franz Joseph 



PlSKO 485 



A Universal Meteorograph, designed for Detached Observatories, by E. H. VON 

 BaumhaUER, Permanent Secretary of the Netherland Society of Sciences, 



Harlem 519 



Reports of American Observatories, by Prof. E. S. Holden 535 



