222 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
TOLTEC ANTIQUITIES. 
The Smithsonian Institution has received an invaluable addition to its rare 
■collections. This addition consists of the widely advertised plaster casts of Cen- 
tral America antiquities, contributed to the Institution by Mr. Pierre Lorrillard. 
These casts include many wonderful monuments of antiquity existing in the 
ruined cities of Central America, reproducing with absolute fidelity, and in their 
actual size the extraordinary bas-reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions of the an- 
cient temples of Yucatan, Tubasco and other regions in Mexico and Central 
America. The relics have been fully described in the magazines and daily papers 
of the country. They arrived in charge of M, Barbier, the agent of M. Desire 
Charnay, the distinguished French archaeologist, who resurrected the antiquities. 
The collection is packed in eleven boxes, which are now stored in one of the 
-grand halls of the institution. Mr. Barbier unpacked the valuables, and estimates 
that the placing of them in proper order and position will require two months, 
There are about one hundred models altogether. 
Professor Baird said to a Republican reporter that the gift was a most welcome 
one. M. Charnay had gone out to Central America several years ago under the 
patronage of M. Pierre Lorillard. Under the laws of the ancient countries ex- 
plored by him, he was prohibited from bringing any of his discoveries away, being 
permitted only to casts of them. These casts were first shipped to Paris, where 
copies were made for the French government, M. Charnay'sarrangment with Mr. 
Lorillard including that privilege. The casts were then shipped to this country. 
M. Charnay could not come in person to deliver the models, but has sent M. 
Barbier, a noted artist and modeler of Paris. — National Republican. 
CLIFF-DWELLERS OF COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO. 
FLORA ELLICE STEVENS. 
Last winter Colonel ^James Stephenson, who is well known as an archaeolo- 
gist, made some interesting discoveries in exploring the clifif-dwellings on the 
southern boundaries of Colorado and New Mexico. 
Colonel Stephenson is connected with the Bureau of Ethnology and an 
enthusiast in pursuit of discoveries. He found in his work several mummies 
which were wrapped in cloth made of a fabric resembling flax, and in one of the 
dwellings specimens of the reed entire, from which it is probable that the fabric 
-may be exactly defined. 
Colonel Stephenson thinks that the clifif-dwellers were still in existence as 
late as three centuries ago, much later than archaeologists have generally deter- 
mined; and in defense of this theory cites a Spanish author, who visited this 
