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French — Riviere deLaConception, Riviere de Colbert, Riviere de St. 

 Louis, and Mississippi. 



Spanish — Rio Grande, Rio Grande del Espiritu Santo, Rio de la Eulata, 

 Rio de la Palisada, and Rio de Chuchaqua. 



Indian names for the Missouri — Pekitanoui, Missouri. 



French — Riviere des Ozages, Riviere de St. Philip, 



English — Yellow River. J. 



In 1834 there was pubUshed in the Osage language, at Boston, Mass., a 

 book entitled, Washashe Wageressa Pahugreh Ise, i vol., 18 mo. Is there any 

 reader of the Review who knows of a copy of this book ? Osage. 



The Rev. James French, in his article entitled "Science in Revelation," 

 published in the last number of the Review, is in the fog when he asserts that 

 the real mathematical ratio existing between the diameter and the circumference 

 of the circle has been found. I do not know anything about Mr. Parker's investi- 

 gations in regard to the quadrature of the circle, but this I will say : That Mr. 

 Parker never found the exact ratio; and furthermore, the so-called "Parker 

 Formula " is not sufficiently accurate for mathematical computation, as can be 

 easily demonstrated. Respectfully submitted, 



J. M. Greenwood. 



In reply to inquiry in Review, will say: E. P. Walsh, of St. Louis, Mo. 

 is Secretary of the Missouri Historical Society. G. C. B. 



MOUND EXPLORATIONS IN NORTHERN MISSOURI. 



On June 9, in company with Drs. Kimlin, Berry, and Rutlon, and Messrs. 

 Tindall, Swayze, Murray, W. Witlen, T. Witlen, and laborers, we opened a 

 mound about three miles northeast of Trenton, from which we removed portions 

 of at least twenty-five human skeletons, without finding any reHcs or implements. 

 Said mound is nearly circular in form, may possibly be a little longer east and 

 west than north and south. We estimate that the mound, only thirty to forty 

 feet in diameter, has contained from 150 to 200 skeletons. There appears to 

 have been a stone floor upon which the bodies have been placed; over them a 

 stone covering, supported probably by stones set edgewise ; upon which were 

 placed other bodies ; this continuing until there were four layers of corpses and 

 five layers of stone. The bones are now on exhibition at Kimlin's drug store. 

 * >iJ >i< * Many of the bones crumbled to pieces on exposure. We 

 have, however, an almost perfect sacrum, many femurs, acetabula, portions of 

 ihum and ischium, humerus, spines of scapula, cranial bones, and bones of 

 feet and hands; also tibias. 



Respectfully, E. F. Horton. 



