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states that the number of blanks printed during the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1880, exceeded those printed during the previous year by 

 25,000,000. The number of copies of unfinished works on December 1, 

 1880, ordered by Cougress was 922,107. It is absolutely impossible to 

 satisfy all the requirements of the Departments and of Congress in a 

 reasonable time, and unfortunately the Smithsonian report is delayed 

 much beyond the desire and intention of the Institution. 



In this report an unusually large space of the Appendix is devoted 

 to anthropology — all but four of the papers, in fiict, coming under that 

 head. This was due, in part, to the increased attention given to that 

 branch of science within the past few years, and in part to the fact that 

 the ethnological articles prepared for the report of 1878 were unavoid- 

 ably thrown over to this. 



The full list of titles comprises : A study of the savage weapons at 

 the Centennial Exhibition, by E.H. Knight; reports of American obser- 

 vatories, prepared byE. S. Holden from the answers to the Smithsonian 

 circular asking for information in regard to the equipment and oi)era- 

 tions of the observatories in the United States; translations of Pisko's 

 lecture on the present fundamental principles of physics; of Baumhauer's 

 account of his i^roposed universal meteorograph for detached observa- 

 tories ; and of Worsaae's statement of the measures taken for the pres- 

 ervation of antiquities and national monuments in Denmark ; abstracts 

 of replies to the Smithsonian archaeological circular; and a statement 

 of the anthropological investigations pursued in 1879, both prepared by 

 Otis T. Mason ; an Index to the Papers on Anthropology, published by 

 the Smithsonian Institution from 1847 to 1878, prepared by George H. 

 Boehmer, and the following papers on local ethnology and anthropology : 

 The French Half-Breeds of the Northwest, by V. Havard ; Prehistoric 

 Remains in Montana, between Fort Ellis and the Yellowstone River, by 

 P. W. Norris ; the Shoshonee or Snake Indians, their religion, super- 

 stitions, and manners, by Albert G. Brackett ; Ruins in White River 

 Canon, Pima County, Arizona, by R. T. Burr; Mounds in Winnebago 

 County, Wisconsin, by Thomas Armstrong; Mounds near Quincy, 111., 

 and in Wisconsin, by William Gilbert Anderson ; ]S"otes on some of 

 the principal mounds in the Des Moines Valley, by Samuel B. Evans; 

 Composition of ancient pottery, found near the mouth of Chequest 

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

 L. Dahlberg; Prehistoric evidences in Missouri, by G. C. Broadhead; 

 Mounds in Franklin County, Indiana, by Edgar R. Quick ; Mounds and 

 earthworks of Rush County, Indiana, by F. Jackman ; Primitive man- 

 ufacture of spear and arrow points along the line of the Savannah 

 River, by Charles C. Jones, jr.; Mica beds in Alabama, by William 

 Gesner; Mounds in Washington County, Mississippi, by James Hough; 

 Mounds in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, by Benjamin H. Brodnax ; 

 Wampum belts of the Six I^ations, by W. M. Beauchamp ; Indian relics 

 from Schoharie, N. Y.,by Frank D. Andrews; Preliminary Explorations 



