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the bones of which were twenty-five arrow 

 points. Twelve of these were made of deer 

 antler and four of bone. Many of the 

 bones of the skeletons were shattered and 

 pierced; one rib in particular presents a 

 cleanly cut hole which was made by a long 

 tapering antler point. 



At the time of this discovery only one 

 antler arrow point had been recorded from 

 this portion of New York state. 



Certain Rare West Coast Baskets: H. 

 Newell Wakdle. 

 This paper was read by title. 



Stone Graves and Cremation Cists in the 

 Vicinity of St. Louis: H. Kinner. 

 A resume of explorations in the mounds 

 and bottom lands in the vicinity of St. 

 Louis with an endeavor to determine pe- 

 riods by the manner of inhumation. 



Some Drawings from the Estufa of Jemez, 



New Mexico: A. B. Reagan. 



The drawings shown were made by the 

 speaker during a two years' stay with this 

 Pueblo tribe. The paintings from which 

 the drawings were made were cosmic signs 

 which may be noted in many of the estufas 

 in the southwestern pueblos. The element 

 of white contact was shown in the faces 

 depicting the sun and moon. 



This paper was discussed by George A. 

 Dorsey, who dwelt upon the fact that it 

 was no easy matter to persuade the con- 

 servative Indians of the Rio Grande region 

 to divulge the meaning of their sacred 

 symbols. 



A Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Lan- 

 guage: J. D. Prince and Frank G. 

 Speck. 

 Read by title. Will be published in the 



American Anthropologist. 



The newly elected officers for the Wash- 

 ington meeting are : 



Vice-President — Walter Hough, U. S. National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Secretary — George H. Pepper, American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York City. 



George H. Pepper, 



Secretary. 



CHARLES EMERSON BEECHER. 



Dr. Charles Emerson Beecher, pro- 

 fessor of paleontology and curator of the 

 geological collections in the Peabody Mu- 

 seum of Yale University, died very sud- 

 denly at his home in New Haven on the 

 fourteenth of February, of an affection of 

 the heart. Up to within an hour of his 

 demise he had appeared in his usual health. 



Dr. Beecher was the son of Moses and 

 Emily (Emerson) Beecher, born at Dun- 

 kirk, New York, October 9, 1856. He was 

 prepared for college at the high school of 

 Warren, Pa., took the scientific course at 

 the University of Michigan and was grad- 

 uated as B.S. in 1878. His tastes had led- 

 him to a study of the native invertebrates, 

 living and fossil, and after graduation he 

 became an assistant to Professor Jam^s 

 Hall, State Geologist of New York, and 

 incidentally an expert collector and skilled 

 preparator of fossils, in which the State 

 Museum is so rich. Here he remained ten 

 years, during which he perfected himself 

 in the science of invertebrate jjaleontology, 

 and then through the influence of Professor 

 Marsh was placed in charge of the collec- 

 tion of invertebrate paleontology at Yale. 

 Here he pursued his studies for the doc- 

 torate of philosophy, which he received 

 from the university in 1889, his thesis be- 

 ing a memoir on a group of Silurian 

 sponges. At the instance of Professor 

 Marsh he spent the summer of that year 

 collecting fossils in Wyoming. Subse- 

 quently he accompanied Dr. G. Baur on a 

 visit to various European museums. He 

 had had the advantage of a course in geol- 

 ogy under Dana, and in 1891-2, during the 

 illness of that veteran teacher, he conducted 



