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the flag oi her people in friendly triumph over the heads of her brother anthro- 

 pologists. 



The next paper was by Judge Henderson upon the question as to whether 

 the antelope ever ranged over the prairies of Illinois. The speaker said that he 

 read a paper in February last, before the Natural History Society of Illinois, on 

 the " Ancient Inhabitants of Illinois," in which he enumerated the antelope as 

 one of the animals hunted by the primitive people upon the great prairies of that 

 State. From the fact that Judge Caton had failed in attempting to domesticate 

 this animal in Illinois, some of the members of that Society raised a question as- 

 to whether it ever was a part of th.Q fauna of that locality. In a letter from Judge 

 Caton to the speaker, the writer stated that he attached no importance to the 

 failure in attempting to domesticate this animal, as similar attempts within the 

 present range of the antelope proved more abortive than those made by him. 

 Judge Henderson then proceeded to give extracts from old French authors, some 

 of which were written more than two hundred years ago, in which two distinct 

 animals of the deer family were mentioned, the cerf, or deer proper, and chev- 

 reuil, or the antelope. 



The Secretary read two papers by Mr. Watson G. Holbrook, of Illinois, one 

 0.1 " Prehistoric Hierogl}^phics," and the other upon "Stone Implements in the 

 Drift," after which Mr. S. H. Trowbridge, from Missouri, exhibited some remark- 

 able archasological specimens found in this State. 



At the opening of the general session of the Association, the fourth day,. 

 Professor Rogers of Boston^ the first president, was elected to the honorary fel- 

 lowship of the Association, the first one to receive that title. 



Professor Mendenhall, of Columbus, by permission, rose to state that the 

 Seismological Society of Japan, was making valuable contributions to science on 

 the subject of earthquakes. Japan has facilities for observing the phenomena at- 

 tending terrestrial disturbances that are equaled by no other country. Earth- 

 quakes occur on an average once in two weeks, and this Society, though poor and 

 contending with many diificulties, is doing a noble and important work — a work 

 which can be done by no other society in the world. 



The Association resolved to hold its next meeting at Montreal, and a warm 

 and pressing invitation to hold the meeting in 1883 in Minneapolis, was referred 

 to the standing committee. 



The authors of papers No. i and No. 2 being absent, they were read by title 

 only. The first was " Upon the Use of the Induction Balance as a means of De- 

 termining the Location of Leaden Bullets in the Human Body," by Professor 

 Alexander Graham Bell. It gave an account of the experiments made to locate 

 the bullet in the body of President Garfield by means of the induction balance. 



The second was also by Professor Bell. It was "Upon a New Form of 

 Electric Probe," and gave an account of the experiments which have led to the 

 discovery that the presence of a bullet imbedded in the human body in any sus- 

 pected locality can be demonstrated by the insertion through the skin of a fine- 

 needle electrically connected with the telephone. 



