429 Scientific Intelligence. 
which has been thus far supposed to be the originator of our com- 
mon tamed ducks.’ 
i i nahMaptahe cree = Sh demeresg den Novt- 
tates C Jonchologice, herausgegeben . von Martius, Pro- 
fessor in Berlin. Band 1. ce ee 0, ae 18 colored plates. 
Cassel, Germany, 1881, (Theodor Fischer .)—The plates illustrate 
species (with their varieties) of the genera Nanina, Helix, Bulimi- 
us, Pleurotomaria, Pleurotoma, Buceinum, Pupa, Helicarion, 
Limnaea, Tornatellina, Stenogyra, and Parte la. 
Ill MisckLLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
First Annual Report t of the Bureau of magwhee, (i to the 
Secretary of - Smithsonian Institution 1879-80; b ae 
OWELL, Director. 604 pp. Roy. 8vo, with eats plates and 
woodcut uit ey Washington, 1881.—After a prefatory 
statement, by the Director, of the work now in progress, under the 
auspices of the E thnological Bureau, by a number of special inves- 
tigators, this volume presents a series of ver y eg papers 
pertaining chiefly to the North American Indi The subjects 
of Mr. Powell’s own reports are (1) the Evolution “of language, (2) 
sketch of the oe a the Nort h Am n Indians, (3) Wy 
andot government, ae Limitations to eh e of some anthropo- 
logic data. ese are follow d by other nae as follows: a 
further contribut on 6 the study of the Mortuary customs of the 
Nortl can “Todians y H. C. Yarrow; Studies in Central 
American Pictai ing, by E. S. HOLDEN ; Jessions of land by 
Indian tribes to the | a nited States, by C. OYCE; Sign lan 
among Nort merican Indians, by Col. Garrick [ALLERY ; 
Catalogue of linguistic manuscripts in the library of the Bureau 
of Ethnology, by J. C. Preurye; Illustrations of the method of 
recording Indian languages, from the MSS. of J. O. Dorsey, A. 
'S. Garscuer and 8. R. Ries. The numerous illustrations of the 
volume are highly instructive as to Indian rites, modes of life, 
hyeroglyphics, and sign language, and other topics discussed. 
OBITUARY. 
Bees “gh the as thought nite t as abra upt 2 as a turn 
in the pee and whose later — ave successively led the way 
into new fields of research, died on Wednesday, the 19th of 
i i b nt ; 
ris 
ts of dredging under the supervision of Alexander aos, in the ind of 
Mexico, 1877-78, by the United States Coast Survey Steamer “Blake.” 
ambridge, 1881. 
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