February 32, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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the tlieory that Haida, Tlinkit and Tinn^' 

 are related to each other, and tliat after a 

 more thorough study the three will be found 

 to form one and the same linguistic family. 

 Dr. Boas' discovery is remarkable for this 

 reason, that the great TLnne family is al- 

 most exclusively an inland nation, and has 

 pushed its branches to the ocean only at two 

 places, viz., in Southern Texas (Lipans) 

 and in .Southwestern Oregon (Rogue 

 Rivers), contiguous to the northwest coast 

 of California, where little Tinne tribes have 

 settled also. 



Alai>l;a. This name was originally ap- 

 plied only to the narrow peninsula situated 

 at the southwest extremity of the Alaska 

 Territory. , It is a corruption of alakshak, 

 mainland, continent, a term of the Eastern 

 dialects of the Ale-ut language. The name 

 of Unaluxhka Mand contains the same word, 

 for it is contracted from iingun alakshak, 

 'to the west of the mainland.' Anguu, 

 tveat, also enters into the composition of 

 TJnangun, a division of the Ale-ut people, 

 which is reducible to nn, people, and iingun, 

 tixxt. ( From notes by Ivan Peti-oflf. ) 



The Department of Anthropologj-, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has just published 

 Bulletin 1 — Xote.t on Me.eican ArchiroJofjy, by 

 Frederick StaiT. A full description is given 

 of the ruins of an interesting ' painted 

 house' at San Juan de Teotihuacan. The 

 walls were decorated with pictures, in a 

 varietj' of colors, representing warriors and 

 religious personages. The designs ai-e re- 

 produced in a series of a dozen cuts. Some 

 notes are also given regarding ^Mitla and 

 Monte Alban. Paintings from a wall at 

 Mitla are reproduced in full size. 



It is the intention of the University to 

 publish Bulletins in tliis Department from 

 time to time as fresh material is secured. 



ZOOLOGY. — THE M.\MM.\IJS OF FLORIDA. 



Mr. Frank M. Chapman has recently 

 publislied a list of the Mammals known to 



inhabit the State of Florida (Bull. Anier. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. vi. pp. 333-346). He gives in 

 all, the names of 53 species and sub-species. 

 Aquatic species are excluded. The largest 

 forms are the Virginia deer, the black bear, 

 the puma and the wolf. The last-named 

 is approaching extinction. The beaver is 

 believed to occur in the Chij)ola River. 



The sole "West Indian form is a leaf-nosed 

 bat (Artibeug carpolegus), and this is believed 

 to be only an accidental visitant. The 

 house-rat of Florida is the white-bellied 

 roof rat (Mu.i alcxandmig') rather than the 

 Norway rat. F. AV. T. 



GEOLOGY'. 



At a meeting of the Council of the 

 Michigan Academy of Sciences, Messrs. A. 

 C. Lane and I. C. Russell were appointed 

 a committee to present to the Legislature a 

 j)lan for a topographical survey of Michigan. 

 The plan to be proposed will be in cooper- 

 ation with the U. S. Geological Survey and 

 the preparation of a map similar to the 

 maps of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and 

 Connecticut, recently compiled at the joint 

 expense of the States named and the L^. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



Profes-sor J. E. ToDD, State Geologist of 

 South Dakota, has just issued his first re- 

 port. It is entitled ' South Dakota Geo- 

 logical Survey, Bulletin Xo. 1: A Preli- 

 minary Report on the Geologj' of South 

 Dakota.' In this volume the present state 

 of knowledge concerning the geology of the 

 State is presented briefly and in a form that 

 is acceptable to the intelligent citizen as 

 well as to the specialist. The report is an 

 octavo- of 172 pages, and it is accompanied 

 l)y several plates and a geological map of 

 the State. 



The committee appointed by the mem- 

 bers of the Johns Hopkins University to 

 mature a plan for securing a permanent 

 memorial of the late Professor (Jeorge 

 Huntington Williams are able to announce 



