appendix: elephant pipes and inscribed tablets. 337 



age from Mr. Henshaw's article : ' Archaeologists must certainly deem 

 it unfortunate that, outside of the Wisconsin mound, the only evidence 

 of the coe.xistence of the Mound-builder and the mastodon should 

 reach the scientific world through the agency of one individual. So 

 derived, each succeeding carving of the mastodon, be it more or less 

 accurate, instead of being accepted by archaeologists as cumulative 

 evidence tending to establish the genuineness of the sculptured testi- 

 mony showing that the Mound-builders and the mastodon were coeval, 

 will be viewed with ever-increasing suspicion.' If we are not mistaken, 

 these are sentiments decidedly new to the scientific world. They have 

 the strong endorsement of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology." — 

 T. H. Wise, April, 1885. 



loum Historical Record. 



"We have received a copy of a neat pam|)hlet of thirty-eight pages, 

 illustrated, entitled 'Elephant Pipes in the Museum of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, Davenport, Iowa,' by Charles E. Putnam, which is a 

 vindication of the authenticity of the elephant pipes and inscribed tablets 

 in the museum of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences from the 

 accusations of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 The author, who is President of the Davenport Academy, presents in a 

 clear and caustic manner a mass of testimony to prove the genuineness 

 of those uniciue specimens, which have been called in question. Aside 

 from the high standing of the individual members of the Davenport 

 Academy, their work is one which is pursued for the love of it alone, 

 and it would seem impossible to assign a motive for their practicing a 

 willful deception. Iowa, some years ago, produced the Cardiff Giant, 

 an ingenious hoax having its origin in cupidity, and it is only (juite 

 lately that some fiction dealer deceived many people by a description 

 of a monster animal alleged to have been discovered invading a farm- 

 er's premises and despoiling him of his fattest hogs. These impostures 

 are akin to the hoax perpetrated on the astronomers years ago by a 

 New England sham, who claimed to have detected Hving animals on 

 the surface of the moon, and we hope have not in any way prejudiced 

 the Davenport Academy in the eyes of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 The latter we hope will find ample warrant in reversing their judgment 

 when they read the able pamphlet from the pen of Mr. Putnam." — 

 April, 1885. 



The Pennsylvania Magazine. 



"Second Annual Report ok the Bureau of Ethnology, i88o-8l By J. W. 

 Powell, Director. Washington, 1883. Large 8vo, pp. 477. 



"It may appear somewhat late to notice a book which professes to 

 have been issued in 1883; but this date is one of the mysteries which 

 surround the work of the Government ])rinting-office. In point of fact, 

 it is only within the last few months that this report of 1880 has been 

 accessible to the i)ublic. Its merits, however, make amends for its 

 tardiness. There are several articles in it which stand in the first rank 

 of importance in American archctology and ethnology. 



