664 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
region are of great interest not only in their racial characteristics, out also in 
their religion. Mr. Hutton gives the following account of the election of a 
Grand Lama: " When a Grand Lama dies an inventory is made of all his 
effects, which are carefully sealed up until his reappearnce in life to claim them. 
Suppose a Grand Lama were to die in Chinese Tartary and to appear at Nako 
in Hangrang in the form of some Lama's child. This child would be known to 
be the new Grand Lama from his laying claim to the sealed-up effects of the 
deceased Grand Lama. He is then called on to state what these effects consist 
of, and where they are. He accordingly describes them one after another. If 
doubt still remain, the effect of the deceased are brought and mixed with other 
things, and the young aspirant is directed to show which are his. If further 
proof be still necessary the child is desired to give some token of the Grand Lama, 
which he does by commanding them to carry him to some spot which he points 
out, and then he places his hand or foot on a large stone, when, if the spirit of 
the Lama really be in him, the impression remains indented in the rock." 
The same author describes the mani, or praying machines. The word 
mani is applied to a small barrel-shaped instrument, about two or three inches 
long, which is made to revolve round an axis, one end of which is held in the 
hand. The oftener this is made to revolve in a day, the greater the chance of 
the operator going to heaven. It is laid aside when the possessor is employed 
in laborious work or in any occupation requiring the assistance of both hands, 
but the instant that task is accomplished the whirling of the mani is resumed. 
In it are enclosed a few scraps of paper inscribed by the Lamas with some 
sacred sentences. 
ANIMAL MOUNDS FOUND IN WISCONSIN. 
PROF. WRIGHT, OBERLIN. 
The ancient earthworks of Wisconsin are not remarkable for their size, but 
for the number among them representing animal forms. It will be remembered 
that in Ohio three of the mounds enumerated were of this character, viz: the 
Alligator in Granville, the Eagle in Newark, and the Serpent in Adams County. 
Those three are exceptional in that region, but in Wisconsin mounds in the shape 
of animal figures are the rule, and over the southern part of the State are very 
numerous. They are specially abundant in the vicinity of Milwaukee, near Lake 
Horicon, around Lake Winnebago, at Madison, and to the southeast, in the 
upper valley of the Fox River, and the lower portion of the Valley of the Wis- 
consin, and for some distance along the Mississippi River, above Prairie du 
Chien. Small mounds occur all over this region, but most of them are simply 
piles of dirt beneath which the dead were buried. 
In that portion of Milwaukee known as Sherman's Addition there was form- 
erly a rude representation of a wolf or a fox guarding a large though low mound 
