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mining engineers, the college men, the wheel- 

 men, the chambers of commerce and the prin- 

 cipal newspapers all co-operated in securing the 

 gratifying result already mentioned. 



Ohio oflFers many interesting problems in to- 

 pographic history, reaching as it does from the 

 deeply-trenched, unglaciated southeastern por- 

 tion, with its great systems of reversed drain- 

 age, to the flat lake plain of the north, with its 

 beaches, moraines and buried channels. In due 

 time this area will be added to that of the States 

 to the eastward, where similar systems of co-op- 

 erative survey are giving, or have already 

 given, their topographic structure to the world 

 in accurate and worthy maps. 



Albbet a. Weight. 



THE AECH^OLOGICAL REPORT OF ONTARIO. 



The usual Ontario Archteological Eeport by 

 David Boyle has appeared for 1899. It is 

 printed by Warwick Bros, and Eutter, Toronto, 

 1900, as part of the appendix to the report of 

 the Minister of Education. Upwards of two 

 thousand specimens have been added to the 

 museum of the Education Department, Toronto. 

 A number of pipes and other specimens are 

 figured. Of special interest are a description 

 and figures of two perforated skulls found in 

 Simcoe County, Ontario. The perforations are 

 considered to be post-mortem, or at least to 

 have been made immediately before the individ- 

 ual's death. The skulls are considered to be of 

 Huron Indians, and remind one of the similarly 

 perforated skulls described by Dr. Henry Gill- 

 man. Mr. E. H. Crane, of Niles, Michigan, 

 has a skull from the Saginaw Valley which is 

 also perforated in this manner. 



An ' Iroquois Medicine Man's ' mask is 

 figured and described, and a brief report is 

 given of the exploration of mounds examined 

 by Mr. Boyle on Pelee Island in Lake Erie. 

 Mr. G. E. Laidlaw contributes a paper on new 

 sites in Victoria County ; Mr. Andrew F. 

 Hunter, on sites of Huron villages in the town- 

 ship of Tay, Simcoe County, with some bib- 

 liographic references ; Mr. W. J. Winternberg, 

 on Indian village sites in the counties of Ox- 

 ford and Waterloo. ' The Wyandots,' by Wil- 

 liam E. Connelly ; The War of the Iroquois,' by 

 M. B. Suite : ' Notes on Some Mexican Relics,' 



by Mrs. Wm. Stewart ; ' Music of the Pagan 

 Iroquois,' with music by Mr. A. T. Cringan; and 

 ' A Study of the Word Toronto,' by General 

 John S. Clark — are also included in the re- 

 port. 



Mr. Boyle has patiently worked for years to 

 create interest in the archaeology of his province. 

 These labors are at last being supplemented 

 by assistance from other students in the same 

 region. Until the subject is more studied, it is 

 well that his efforts to preserve the records and 

 specimens be encouraged. 



Haelan I. Smith. 



EXPERIMENT STATION EXHIBIT AT TEE 

 PARIS EXPOSITION. 



At the meeting of the Association of Ameri- 

 can Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions, held at Minneapolis in 1897, a resolution 

 was adopted in favor of a co-operative experi- 

 ment station exhibit at the Paris Exposition. A 

 committee, consisting of H. P. Armsby, chair- 

 man ; W. H. Jordan, A. W. Harris, M. A. 

 Scovell, and A. C. True, was appointed to take 

 charge of the matter. The stations were invited 

 to contribute materials and charts illustrating 

 special features of their work and results, orig- 

 inal pieces of apparatus, models, designs, etc. 

 The material as it was prepared was shipped to 

 Washington. Dr. True, Director of the Office 

 of Experiment Stations, undertook to make a 

 collection of photographs and publications of 

 the stations, to prepare a monograph on the ex- 

 periment station enterprise of this country, and 

 to look after the temporary installation of the 

 exhibit in Washington and its final ship- 

 ment. 



The photographic exhibit includes about 750 

 selected pictures of station buildings, grounds, 

 laboratories, apparatus, experimental plants, 

 herds and other features, in addition to a col- 

 lection of photographs of the station directors 

 and staff members. The pictures are mounted 

 in groups on sheets of heavy cardboard, 22 by 

 28 inches, and will be displayed in portfolios 

 of twenty-four each. 



A series of root cages, furnished by the North 

 Dakota Station, shows the formation of the 

 roots of maize, wheat, flax and brome grass j 

 models of sweet potatoes, peppers, apples and 



