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hai and then to the Phillipines, Siam and Java. The expedition thence 
returns to Europe by sea while Baron Richthofen proposes to cross the 
Asiatic continent. 
4. Correction—A letter from Prof. James Hall, in regard to trilobites 
from the Wisconsin ‘Potsdam,’ says: “The specimen you send me is from 
Annual Report 
we find, among 
comprising the counties of Chautauque and Cattaraugus—by T. AroLeon 
HENEY, Civil Hngi 5 
a cursory perusal of this report and after an inspection of its illus- 
trations, we are convinced that the dominion of that very ancient and 
unknown people, by whom the earth works of North America were 
raised, extended to Lake Erie and was a part of the great system of simi- 
lar works which occupied the territory of several of the Western and 
Southwestern States, to a great extent, also, the valleys of the Ohio anc 
Mississippi and their confluents extending quite to Mexico. There is so 
t asimilarity, not to say identity, of structure, position, arrangement 
and contents whether of human remains, or of artistic works, when art 
Was young, or of collections of minerais and other objects of nature and 
In an extreme degree, : : : 
Ve sincerely wish him every aid to which he is so well entitled—es- 
pecially to enable him to bring a successful result extensive investigations 
in which he is now engaged as to the origin and history of the build- 
ers of the mounds and fortresses which are the only record of that won- 
derful extinct people—s. s. 
2. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy ; by Joseru Lewy, 
M.D., with 392 illustrations. Philadelphia: Lippencott & Co. 1861. 
8v0, pp. 663.—This original and truly admira 
Ay verywhere the signs of its author's genius. Concise i 
clear without formality, learned without pedantry, 1t 1s a model of what 
every text in a descriptive scien ould be. The illustrations are 
