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this part of Florida, writing in the latter part of the 
eighteenth century, tells us that in his time the Choctaws 
bound bags of sand to the heads of male children; but 
skulls of females exhibit the same artificial deformation. 
The region investigated by Mr. Moore shows in an 
interesting manner the influence of other districts. The 
pottery of north-west Florida is, on the whole, much 
superior to that of the peninsula, and the author is inclined 
to believe that the best ware found its way into the latter 
region through barter, and the comparative rarity of the 
imported ware may account for the infrequent occurrence 
of earthenware vessels in the burial mounds of the coast 
of the peninsula. 
In the first part of the report (Journal Acad. Nat. Sci., 
Phila., xi., 1901, p. 439) Mr. Moore noted a mortuary 
custom prevailing in peninsular Florida, which consisted of 
knocking a hole in the base of a vessel, presumably to 
“kill? the pot, that its soul might accompany that of the 
dead man. The flimsy and “‘ freak ’’ pottery sometimes 
found in the peninsula, and numerously in the north-west, 
was made expressly for interment with the dead, and in 
the base of each vessel a hole had been made previous to 
the baking of the clay. A new feature in ‘ freak ’’ ware 
was encountered about St. Andrew’s Bay; these vessels 
Fic. 1.—Perforated mortuary vessel from St. Andrew's Bay, Florida. 
were life-forms, usually, but differed from other life-forms 
of the same district in that they were inferior to them as 
to ware and workmanship, and that they had various per- 
forations, made previous to baking, in the body of the vessel 
as well as the customary one in the base. 
Mr. Moore also obtained evidence which suggests that 
the flesh was removed from the bones of the corpses and 
burnt; the mass of carbonaceous matter was always found 
on the eastern side of the mounds. Urn burial was largely 
in vogue in Alabama and Georgia; it extended into Florida, 
but practically is not met with further east than St. 
Andrew’s. Inhumation was almost universally practised in 
Florida; true cremation has not been met with in the 
peninsula, but it was occasionally practised on the main- 
land, or north-western portion. These observations confirm 
the statement of Cabeca de Vaca, who spent some years 
among the aborigines of the north-west Florida coast; he 
says that persons there in general were buried, but that 
doctors were cremated. Mr. Moore is to be warmly con- 
gratulated on having brought his labours to so successful 
a termination, and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 
Sciences is fortunate in possessing so liberal a benefactor. 
It is to be hoped that these instructive collections will be 
suitably and worthily displayed. INE AGS Jel 
NO. 1776, VOL. 69] 
NATURE 
[ NOVEMBER 12, 1903 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE, 
CamBripGE.—In accordance with general expectation, Dr. 
J. N. Langley, F.R.S., has been elected professor of physi- 
ology in succession to Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., F.R.S. 
Dr. A. Hill has been reappointed university lecturer in 
advanced human anatomy. Dr. A. C. Ingle,,has; been 
appointed university lecturer in midwifery. Mr. J. de 
Gruchy Gaudin has been appointed a governor of the 
University College of North Wales, Bangor. 
An Allen studentship of the value of 250l. for one year, for 
research in any branch of study connected with medicine, 
mathematics, physics and chemistry, biology and geology, 
or moral science, will be vacant next term. Candidates 
must be graduates of the university and not more than 
twenty-eight years of age. 
Mr. Newall will lecture next week on Hale’s recent in- 
vestigations of the sun’s surface, with illustrations obtained 
from Prof. Hale, of the Yerkes Observatory. 
The State Medicine Syndicate reports that during the pre- 
sent year eighty-eight candidates have presented themselves 
for examination in sanitary science. Forty-one were 
successful in obtaining the university diploma in public 
health. 
Sir Walter Gilbey has been appointed an additional 
member of the board of agricultural studies. 
A syndicate is to be appointed ** to consider what changes, 
if any, are desirable in the studies, teaching, and examin- 
ations of the university, to confer with any persons or 
bodies, and to submit a report or reports to the Senate 
before the end of the Easter term, 1904.’’ The members 
proposed are the Vice-Chancellor, Sir R. C. Jebb, Dr. 
A. W. Ward, Mr. Austen Leigh, Mr. W. Chawner, Dr. 
D. MacAlister, Prof. A. R. Forsyth, Dr. J. N. Keynes, 
Prof. J..J. Thomson, Mr. R. S. Parry, Mr. J. W. Cart- 
mell, Mr. W. Durnford, and Mr. W. Bateson. It is under- 
stood that one of the first questions to be considered will 
be that of ‘“‘ compulsory Greek.”’ 
Tue War Office has sanctioned the provision of a guard 
of honour on the occasion of the visit of Lord Kelvin to 
Cardiff to receive an honorary degree from the University 
of Wales. ° * 
Tue Commissioners for the Exhibition of 
1851 have 
offered a nomination for an 1851 science exhibition to the 
South African College, Cape Town, for 1904, and hope to 
repeat the offer in 1906 and subsequent alternate years. 
Dr. C. S. Myers has been elected to the lectureship on 
experimental psychology at King’s College, London, 
rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. W. G. Smith, who 
has been appointed to a similar post at the University of 
Liverpool. 
Tue Prince and Princess of Wales will visit the Battersea 
Polytechnic on Wednesday, February 24, for the annual 
distribution of prizes to evening students and the formal 
opening of a new block of buildings in the women’s depart- 
ment. 
At the half-yearly meeting of the governors of the Uni- 
versity College of North Wales, held on October 28, the 
chairman stated that in all probability sooo/. would be 
received from the trustees of the late Dr. Evan Thomas, and 
that it had been decided to allot that sum to the new build- 
ing fund. 
A NEW Royal college at Posen was opened on November 
4 by Herr Studt, the German Minister of Education. Herr 
Studt, in declaring the building open, referred to the 
Emperor’s deep interest in the education of eastern Germany, 
to which the new college largely owed its existence. The 
new foundation was to be a university in the true sense, he 
continued, for it would serve the needs of all the popula- 
tion, including even: that section of the Poles which still 
held aioof, 
Tue civic inauguration of the University of Liverpool 
took place on. November 7 in St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. 
The Lord Mayor of Liverpool presented the charter of the 
university to the Chancellor, remarking that no one had 
