APRIL 5, 1901.] 
devoted to the teaching of science in secondary 
schools, edited by C. E. Linebarger and pub- 
lished at Chicago, Ill. There are twelve asso- 
ciate editors, all teachers in secondary schools, 
and the contributions given in the first number 
and promised are chiefly from teachers in sec- 
ondary schools, though the present number 
contains contributions from Professor Palmer, of 
the University of Colorado, and Professor Nich- 
ols, of Cornell University. The journal is evi- 
dently edited with care, and will exert an ex- 
cellent influence. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
THE 314th meeting of the Anthropological 
Society was held on March 12th. 
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes presented some his- 
torical documents, consisting of a fac-simile of 
the map of Padre Menchero (1747) of the terri- 
tory now embraced in Arizona and New 
Mexico; a fac-simile of the map of Juan de la 
Cosa (1500), showing the famous demarcation 
line of Pope Alexander II. and the discoveries 
in the New World at that period, and an un- 
published manuscript of Antonio Alzate, des- 
cribing the ruins of Xochicaleo, Mexico. The 
Menchero map, which israre and little known, 
gives the locations of the missions in the South- 
west, and valuable ethnological data. It was 
issued at Berlin. The Cosa map was copied 
during the Columbian Historical Exposition at 
Madrid in 1892-3 from the original lent by the 
Vatican. Dr. Fewkes pointed out that Alzate 
was the first to call attention to the need for 
preserving the ruins in Mexico. 
President W. H. Holmes presented instru- 
ments of execution and torture, exhibiting an 
iron cage found some years ago by workmen 
engaged in road building in King George 
County, Virginia. This cage is constructed 
roughly on the outlines of a human body, and 
on discovery contained a human skeleton, most 
of which is still preserved. Mr. Holmes said 
that no documentary evidence has yet been 
found of ‘hanging in chains’ inthe United 
States. He called attention to a similar gibbet 
found in Jamaica and stated that this form of 
post-mortem exposure of the bodies of criminals 
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is English, and was practised as long ago as 
the twelfth century. The last gibbet was con- 
structed and used in England in 1832. There 
is no very reliable record of the hanging of 
living persons in these cages, although tradi- 
tion has it that such was the practise. At the 
close of his remarks Mr. Holmes exhibited a 
large collection of instruments of torture 
brought to this country from Hanover, Ger- 
many, by Anton Heitmuller, of Washington. 
The first paper of the evening was entitled 
‘Ethnology in the Jesuit Relations,’ by Mr. 
Joseph D. McGuire. Mr. McGuire has care- 
fully gone over the collection of Relations, re- 
cently published under the editorship of 
Reuben Goldthwaites, extracting all ethnologic 
and archeologic data. This paper is the first 
of a series having in view the rehabilitation of 
the American Indian at the period of first con- 
tact with the white man, as far as can be 
done by examination of the literature. Mr. 
McGuire’s paper was listened to with much 
interest. 
Mr. W J McGee’s paper on the ‘Cocopa 
Indians’ occupied the remainder of the session. 
Mr. McGee went into considerable detail as to 
the arts and customs of the Cocopas, whom he 
visited last summer. The custom of burning 
the house of the deceased, and the commu- 
nistic division of the property among the 
friends, exclusive of the relations, in the event 
of a death, coupled with the periodical re- 
moyals from the flood-plain of the Colorado 
to higher ground, and vice versa, have exerted 
a profound repressive influence on the Cocopas. 
These Indians were found to be at a low ebb 
numerically and physically, and are without 
doubt rapidly tending to extinction. 
WALTER HouGH. 
THE SCIENCE CLUB OF UPPER IOWA 
UNIVERSITY. 
THE last regular meeting of the Club was 
held February 27th. Arthur E. Bennett de- 
scribed his researches among the prehistoric 
remains of New Mexico, including skeletons, 
utensils, pursuits, pottery, decorations, wor- 
ship, etc. He stated that the plain, mesa and 
cliff dwellers were really one people. Atthe 
next meeting he proposed to discuss the prob- 
