32 FIELD AND FOREST. 



EDITORIAL PENCILINGS. 



Recent Valuable Collections in Ethnology. — One section of 

 Lt. Wheeler's Expedition, during the present Summer field season, 

 has been making extensive excavations of Indian graves, in the vicin- 

 ity of Santa Barbara, on the coast of Southern California. Their re- 

 sults have been simply enormous, and a collection of twenty or thirty 

 tons weight has been secured for exhibition at the Centennial. 



The objects of interest secured are crania, ollas or pots of stealite 

 sand-stone, mortars, war-clubs, hatchets, pipes, spear and arrow-heads, 

 daggers, besides many smaller objects, bone implements, shell orna- 

 ments, &c. The party was in charge of Dr. H. C. Yarrow, the Nat- 

 uralist of the Expedition, assisted by Dr. J. T. Rothrock, Mr. H. W. 

 Henshaw and Mr. Shoemaker. While this party were operating on 

 the main land another party in charge of Mr. Paul Shumacher, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, were investigating the grave mounds of the 

 Islands in Santa Barbara Channel. They, also, have secured a vast 

 amount of material. 



Florida Litany. — A well known entomologist "who has been 

 there," sometimes gets off the following unique and original "litany," 

 which we are happy to reproduce for the benefit of suffering human- 

 ity: 



1-rom red-bugs and bed-bugs, from saiid-flies and land-flies, 



Mosquitoes, gallinippers and fleas — 

 From hog-ticks and dog-ticks, from hen-lice and men-lice 



We ])ray thee, good Lord, give us ease; 

 And all the congregation shall scrcUi^i and say Amen. 



Cedar Keys, Florida, mtist be a healthy locality for enthusiastic nat- 

 uralists, as we were lately informed by a gentleman from that State, 

 that a couple of the ''profession" Avere arrested in this hamlet in June 

 last, and given considerable trouble by the authorities, who assigned 

 as the reasoii for the detention, "violation of the game-laws." 



Col. P. E. Dye of Des Moines, Iowa, tells us that it is a common 

 occurrence, during an invasion, for the grasshoppers to take off the 

 edge of a scythe, dulling it completely. They "attack" the scythe for 

 the sake of the juices of the grass, which have become hardened into a 

 gum, along the edge, and in removing this with their hard jaws, the 

 edffe is worn off. 



