I02 Calif ornian and Poly yiesiaii Fish-Hooks. 



foes, and to the end, considered himself a most deserving, 

 though unrequitted, laborer for the promotion of human 

 knowledge." 



Peace to his memory ! May his enthusiam and scientific 

 spirit, which, in some respects were in advance of the age in 

 which he lived, be duly honored; and may naturalists ever 

 take heed, as a lesson from his career, to join to their zeal, 

 wisdom ; and to wisdom, modesty. 



Josiah Keep. 



CALIFORNIAN AND POLYNESIAN FISH-HOOKS. 



In his work on pre-historic fishing in Europe and North 

 America, Dr. Rau has drawn attention to the similarity of 

 South Californian and Polynesian fish-hooks of shell and 

 bone, and he has figured a few from South Sea Islands for 

 the sake of comparison. In consequence thereof, he received, 

 a short time ago, from the ethnological department of the 

 British Museum, a communication, together with a large 

 plate of drawings of Polynesian fish-hooks preserved in the 

 museum. Some of these are strikingly like the Californian 

 specimens; not only does the curved points in these hooks 

 approach very closely the shank, but they also show, like the 

 Californian hooks, a barb on the outside. This analogy is the 

 more significant, as some ethnologists have claimed a rela- 

 tionship between the Polynesians and South Californians. — 

 Amei'ican Naturalist, 



HORIZONTAL WELLS. 



Many people are now deriving their water supply from tun- 

 nels in the hillsides. It has been found that water can be thus 

 obtained at an elevation which admits of its being distributed 

 over wide areas either for house use or irrigation. In some 

 places in the southern counties of California, tunnels have 

 been run in near the sources of small streams, and thus a 

 much greater supply has been developed than found its way 

 into the streams originally. In other cases, the beds of such 

 streams have been tunneled under, and the underground con- 

 duits of water cut off, and thus again supplies have been de- 

 veloped. Tunnels into the hillsides nearly always yield 



