436 SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1891. 
several weeks. The splendid collections of the National Museum and 
of the Army Medical Museum were thrown open, visits were made to 
the Piney Branch bowlder quarries and to other aboriginal remains in 
the vicinity of the capital. 
The following papers were read before Section H of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science: | 
The essentials of a good education. W. H. Seaman. 
Kava-drinking among the Papuans and Polynesians. Walter Hough. 
A linguistic map of North America. J. W. Powell. 
Jade implements from Mexico and Central America. Thomas Wilson. 
Gold ornaments in the United States National Museum from the United States of 
Colombia. Thomas Wilson. 
Siouan onomatopes interjection and phonetic types. J. O. Dorsey. 
On a collection of stone pipes from Vermont. G. H. Perkins. 
An experiment in human stirpiculture. Anita Newcomb McGee. 
Relics of ancient Mexican civilization. Zelia Nuttall. 
Bow-stretchers. Edward 8. Morse. 
Prehistoric bows. Edward 8. Morse. 
The Nez Perce country. Alice C. Fletcher. 
Relation of a Loveland, Ohio, implement-bearing terrace to the moraines of the ice 
sheet. Frank Leverett. 
Utility of physical study of child life. Laura Osborne Talbott. 
Origin of the name “Chautauqua.” Albert Gatschet. 
Outlines of Zuni creation and migration myths considered in their relation to the 
Ka-ka and other dramas or so-called dances. Frank Hamilton Cushing. 
An ancient human cranium from southern Mexico. F. W. Putnam. 
The length of a generation. C.M. Woodward. 
Burial customs of the Hurons. Charles A. Hirschfelder. 
The Messiah religion and the ghost dance. James Mooney. 
Study of adwarf. Frank Baker. 
Stone drills and perforations in stone from the Susquehanna River. Atreus Wanner. 
Evidence of the high antiquity of man in America. Thomas Wilson. 
On bone, copper, and slate implements found in Vermont. G. H. Perkins. 
Some archeological contraventions. Gerard Fowke. 
On the distribution of stone implements in the tidewater provinces. W.H. Holmes. 
Aboriginal novaculite quarries in Arkansas. W. H. Holmes. ' 
Games of Teton children. J. Owen Dorsey. 
Geographical arrangement of prehistoric objects in the United States National Mu- 
serum. Thomas Wilson. 
Curious forms of chipped stone implements found in Italy, Honduras, and the 
United States. Thomas Wilson. 
Inventions of antiquity. Thomas Wilson. 
Study of automatic motion. Joseph Jastrow. 
Race survivals and race mixture in Great Britain. W. H. Babcock. 
The Smithsonian Institution issued two annual reports in 1891, besides 
separate papers in the proceedings of the United States National Mu- 
seum. The Bureau of Ethnology published its Seventh Annual Report, 
1885-86; Catalogue of Prehistoric Works Kast of the Rocky Mountains, 
by Cyrus Thomas; Omaha and Ponka Letters, by J. Owen Dorsey; 
Bibliography of the Algonquian Language, by J. C. Pilling; The Kla- 
math Indians of Southwestern Oregon (Cont. to N. A. Hthnol., vol. 11), 
by A.S. Gatschet; The Dhegiha Language (Cont. to NV, A. Ethnol., vol. 
