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SCIENCE. 



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died since last Jvily, and it is only through 

 the last survivor, Augustine Pecos, that 

 first hand information concerning the lan- 

 guage, customs, folklore and religion of 

 the Pecos Indians can be had. Some in- 

 foi'mation gained from this old man was 

 given. 



Sheet Copper from the Mounds is not 

 Necessarily of European Origin: Clar- 

 ence B. Moore. 



It was shown in the paper that, while 

 some of the sheet copper from the mounds 

 is of European origin, much sheet copper 

 is purely aboriginal, as is evident by the 

 lack of association of any objects of Euro- 

 pean make, and the fact that analyses 

 show that the copper is in many instances 

 hammered from pure native copper, and 

 is far purer than any copper produced in 

 Europe during the fifteenth, sixteenth, 

 seventeenth or eighteenth century from the 

 arsenical sulphide ores which have to be 

 made itse of in Europe to obtain copper, 

 inasmuch as native copper is not present 

 in quantities sufficient for commercial use. 



The Hopewell Copper and Other Objects, 

 are they Pre-Columbian? Warren K. 

 Moorehead. 



A summary of the evidence in favor of 

 the pre-Columbian origin of the objects 

 taken from the Hopewell Group, based on 

 personal exploration of the group in ques- 

 tion. 



The Fossil Human Remains Found Near 

 Lansing, Kansas: W. H. Holmes. 

 Reports of the finding of human remains 

 deeply imbedded in loess or loess-like for- 

 mations near Lansing, Kansas, came to the 

 writer's attention early in the year 1902. 

 In September he visited the site, accom- 

 panied by Professor T. C. Chamberlin and 

 other geologists. Excavations were under- 

 taken for the purpose of giving geologists 

 an opportunity of examining the forma- 

 tions more critically, a month being spent 



in this work. The interpretation reached 

 by those geologists who first visited the 

 site was that the deposits enclosing the 

 remains were of Glacial age, probably ex- 

 tending back to the middle of the lowan 

 Epoch. Later interpretations, however, 

 favor the view that the deposits are of 

 post-Glacial age, that they are a remnant 

 of a fan-like delta built in and about the 

 mouth of the little valley that opens out 

 upon the flood-plain of the Missouri River 

 at this point. The osteological characters 

 and state of preservation of the himian 

 remains seem to favor the latter interpre- 

 tation. 



Economic Anthropology: Lindley M. 



Keasbey. 



In the domain of physical anthropology 

 good results have been reached. By ap- 

 plying the biological principles of varia- 

 bility and variation anthropologists have 

 succeeded in elaborating a fairly full ac- 

 count of the origin, dispersion and differ- 

 entiation of the human species. But in 

 the domain of cultural anthropology con- 

 fusion still prevails. This is due to the 

 fact that no principle of continuity has 

 been applied to the cultural activities of 

 primitive people. The economic activities 

 of man are necessarily antecedent to his 

 cultural activities— true, man does not live 

 by bread alone, but unless man labors for 

 his daily bread he is not able to live. 

 Therefore, anthropologists should begin 

 their enquiries by studying the economic 

 activities of primitive people. By apply- 

 ing the economic principles of utility and 

 utilization, the anthropologist should be 

 able to establish the first stages of indus- 

 trial development and determine the essen- 

 tial characteristics of primitive culture. 



The Excavations of the Gartner Mounds: 



W. C. Mills. 



The mound which was located near sev- 

 eral other famous mounds of the Ohio area. 



