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the chief, the article is destined to produce mischief and arouse preju- 

 dice against the Bureau. Mr. Henshaw evidently owes an apology to 

 the Davenport society." — Rev. Stephen I). Peet, July, iSSfj- 



Pacific Science Monthly. 



"From Charles E. Putnam, President of the Davenport Academy of 

 Sciences, we have received a pamphlet of forty pages relating to ele- 

 phant pipes found in that vicinity. The Bureau of Ethnology, Wash- 

 ington, made an attack upon these finds, caUing in question their gen- 

 uineness, to which Mr. Putnam rephes in an incisive way that will 

 doubtless cause the Washington relic sharps to look a 'leedle out.' The 

 first of these pipes is said to have been plowed up in a corn-field in 

 Louisa County, Iowa, in 1873, by Peter Mare, a German farmer. The 

 other was discovered in March, 1880, in a mound, in the same county, 

 by Rev. A. Blumer, a Lutheran clergyman. Rev. J. Gass, a Mr. Hass, 

 and several workmen were j)resent. These gentlemen are said to be 

 irreproachable in character, and Mr. Gass is a member of the Academy. 

 The men who made these discoveries, and the circumstances connected 

 therewith, warrant the conclusion that they are genuine finds, and that 

 no deception whatever has been practiced in the matter. Mr. Putnam 

 has certainly made out his case, and it seems to us that he removes 

 every reasonable doubt as to their being genuine. Anti(iuarians gen- 

 erally seem to overlook the fact that the mastodon existed upon this 

 cOndnent in comparatively recent times. A skeleton was found in ex- 

 cavating the bed of a canal a few miles north of Covington, Fountain 

 County, Indiana, bedded in wet peat, the larger bones containing the 

 marrow, which was used by the workmen to 'grease' their boots. 

 Chunks of adipocere, 2^x3 inches, occupied the place of the kidney 

 fat of the monster. But five years ago the remains of a mastodon were 

 found in Iroquois County, Illinois, between the ribs of which was found 

 a mass of herbs and grasses similar to those which still grow in that 

 vicinity. In the same bed of clay was found land and fresh-water 

 shells such as still exist in that locality to the present time. Evidences 

 of this kind can be furnished from many places; hence it is not improb- 

 able that man and the mastodon have existed together upon this con- 

 tinent within the past five thousand years. We are aware that these 

 views will be pooh-poohed and waved aside by some who, in their self- 

 sufficiency, believe that arckeological wisdom will be a thing of the 

 past when they die ; nevertheless, our position is tenable and fully sus- 

 cei)tible of proof, we think. The savants of Washington have doubt- 

 less been hasty in their condemnation of the finds we have been con- 

 sidering." — Stephen Bowers, Ph.D., May, 188^. 



The YoHtig Mineralogist and Antiquarian. 



"We believe an article in the Second Annual Report of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology to be open to severe criticism. The Bureau, under the 

 management of Major J. W. Powell, has recently taken the decided 

 position that the Mound-builders were nothing more nor less than the 



