370 Canadian Record of Science. 



Description of Figures. 



Fig. 1. Partially cut boulder of brownish, opaque jade, found in an 

 excavation at Yale by Mr. T. Eales. 



Fig. 2. Portion of a boulder of green, mottled, sub-translucent jade 

 obtained from the Indians at Lytton by Eev. Mr. Good. The 

 figure shows the surfaces of two deep sawn-cuts, with a rough 

 intervening projection where the stone bas eventually been 

 broken. 



Fig. 2 6. Section of the same specimen at right angles to the last, 

 showing depth and gaping character of the saw-cuts. 



Fig. 3. Selvage piece, probably cut from the edge of an adze, ground 

 flat on two sides, and sawn from back and front at both 

 edges. Pale green translucent jade from old Indian graves 

 near Lytton. 



Fig. 4. Front and edge views of a small adze, showing saw-cuts 

 from front and back nearly meeting, and a narrow interven- 

 ing broken rib. Jade nearly identical in appearance with 

 the last, and from the same place. 



EXTRACTS FROM A PAPER BY PROF. A. B. MEYER, ON NEPHRITE 

 AND ANALOGOUS MINERALS FROM ALASKA. 



[Uber Nephrit und ahnliches Material aus Alaska. Jahresbericht 

 (xxi) des Vereins fur Erdkunde zu Dresden, 1884.] 



"The hypothesis has been contended for, principally by 

 Prof. Heinrich Fischer of Freiburg in Baden, and has even 

 recently maintained, that the rough material for the 

 nephrite and jadeite implements which have been found 

 throughout America, is of Asiatic origin. I opposed that 

 hypothesis in my work, 'Jadite und Wephrit-Objecte,' 

 (1882-83) and in my essay, ' Die Nephritfrage, kein eth- 

 nologisches Problem,' (1882-83), taking for my ground 

 general arguments which, however, forced irresistible con- 

 clusions upon me, and in particular I had, by induction, 

 become convinced of the presence, in America, of the 

 required rough material. 



" Meanwhile, sooner than I could have expected, the dis- 

 coveries of later travellers have brought to light facts which 

 establish the occurrence of rough nephrite at least, in North- 

 west America ; consequently, the theory of importation of 

 this material falls to the ground, as far as it refers to impor- 



