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viduals are represented: of man, 8; bison, 4; me ss birds, 3 5 
hares, 3; big-horn or Rocky Mountain goat, i; , 1; prairie 
lf, ‘1; " non-deseript animals, 3. of the last chee it is sug- 
gested may be the Mastodon, and as. and in view of other 
oe: announcements, the cotemporaneity of Man and the 
Tastodon is deemed probable. fe ~ number contains also a few 
zoological A bls by J. D. Put 
Tw. &. Geographical and fae ogical Survey of the pea 
Mountain Region. J. W. Powe11, Geologist in charge. Depart 
ment of the Interior.—This surve , under the Interior Department, 
has recently issued volume I of Cinniiations to North American 
Anology, a quarto volume of 362 pages, with many illustrations. 
Part I contains a Report on the tribes of the extreme N orthwest ; 
by W. H. Datz; Part I, on the tribes of Western Washington 
and Northwestern Oregon, with a ma y GrorGE GI 
cluding, in an appen of 122 pages, CO mparative vocabularies, 
and a a Niskwalli-Roglish and English-Niskwalli Dictionary. 
Burial Customs of North American Indians ; Mr. H. C 
Yarrow, of Washington, D. C., has issued a circular requesting 
information in aid of a memoir he is preparing, upon the “ Bu a 
apt of the Indians of North America, both ancient and m 
tion to the following points in regard to which information is 
desired: Name of the tribe; locality; manner of burial, ancient 
at the xeny Medical Museum aa D GC, 
cular contains more detailed statements, 
On the Science of Weighing and ie nante Pata and Stand- 
ae 
ards of Measure and Weight ; by H. W. Cutsnotm, Warden of 
the Standards. 192 pp. 8 ndon; 1877, (Macmillan & Co. 
ture ).—This little volume contains a very interesting 
account of the ancient standards of weigh easure, mo 
ployed in’ the restoration of the imperial pound and yard after 
their destruction by the burning of the Houses of Parliament in 
1834, Another chapel is devoted to the Metric Bh tena and one 
also to instruments for weighing and measuring. The numerous 
illustrations of the ancient standards add much to the foitarest of 
the description. 
. How to draw a Straight Line; A Lecture on Linkages 
by A. B. Kemps, B.A. : pp. 8vo. London, 1877, (Macmillan 
Jo. Nature Series). —A description of the ingenious Me tel 
