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above sea level, or only sixteen feet higher than the old Morne Lacroix 

 that once formed the highest part of the mountain, but which was largely 

 destroyed by the eruption. 



It is not a difficult matter now to climb the north side of the new cone, 

 but its slope is 37 to 40 degrees from the horizontal, so that the rock 

 fragments composing it are so loose that a slight jar starts them down 

 hill, rendering foothold uncertain and the advance of a party dangerous 

 to the lower members of it. In the top of the new cone, there are great 

 fissures within which the temperature is high. In a branch of one of 

 them my electric pyrometer gave a reading of 515 degrees Celsius, 

 or 959 degrees Fahrenheit. After a shower, steam issues abundantly 

 from the numerous fumaroles of the cone, but between times there is 

 said to be no cloud of vapor, and as far as known no ash has been thrown 

 out since the summer of 1905. The activity of the volcano has been 

 gradually though intermittently decreasing since the great outburst of 

 August 30, 1902, which was the most severe of the whole series, and 

 there seems to be no present indication of another eruption. 



Edmund Otis Hovey. 



THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA. 



THE Department of Anthropology has arranged a new exhibit 

 in the series illustrating the chief culture types of North Amer- 

 ica. The present exhibit, that of the Indians of California, 

 makes the third of the series now in place, the other two, those of the 

 Eskimo and the Indians of the Plains, respectively, having been previ- 

 ously opened to the public. The new exhibit is to be found in the West 

 Hall of North American Types (No. 102 of the Groimd Floor). 



While the Indians of California are somewhat uniform in their habits 

 and customs, they may nevertheless be divided into three groups: (1) 

 Those of central California, characteristic of the type and represented 

 in this exhibit by the ^laidu. (2) Several tril)es in northern California, 

 represented in the exhibit by the Yurok. These, while having most of 

 the characteristics peculiar to the Indians of California, have also cus- 

 toms and habits borrowed from Indian tribes farther north. For 

 instance, the Yurok and several other northern tribes lived in rectangular 

 houses with gal)le roofs, a style borrowed from the houses of Oregon and 

 Washington. (3) Tribes in the southern part of California, represented 



