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THE ATLANTIC SLOPE NATURALIST. 



of the geese floated down stream at a 

 rapid rate. 



The members of the East Reading 

 'Coon and 'Possum Club, under the 

 leadership of Captain Harry Kemp and 

 William Batt, turned out in full force, 

 and killed eighteen wild ducks and 

 geese. It is believed by many that 

 this flock of geese is the same that flew 

 eastward over the city the day before 

 last Thanksgiving, when upwards of 

 200 families secured a wild bird for 

 the Thanksgiving dinner." 



Clippings are always acceptable. 

 Sometimes valuable items of a scien- 

 tific nature are recorded in the daily 

 press, which are more accessible and 

 more readily preserved when recorded 

 elsewhere. In the present instance 

 the migration referred to has been 

 observed in a number of sections of 

 Pennyslvania. The article fails to 

 note the species observed. The Mal- 

 lard and Wood Ducks are frequently 

 recorded in the above section, and 

 sometimes the Canada Goose or occa- 

 sionally the Brant. 



A QUERY. 



I have a very large willow tree on 

 my farm within six feet of my well 

 from which we get all of the water for 

 household purposes. The roots of this 

 tree have formed such a mass that we 

 are obliged to clean them out and 

 in so doing find that they come into 

 the well through every little crevice 

 and have resulted in giving to the 

 water a very peculiar taste. This tree 

 is about fifty years old and will meas- 

 ure in circumference about six feet. 

 Some of the limbs are dead and I 

 would cut it down but am afraid the 

 roots will still live. Can you tell me 

 how to kill these roots? It is not 

 practical to dig them all out. 



X. 



This question is too much for us. 

 Can any of our botanical friends give 

 any information? 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES. 



According to the newspapers the 

 investigations which have been con- 

 ducted by Dr. Max Uhle in Peru prom- 

 ises to be of great interest to anthro- 

 pologists indicating that ancient Peru- 

 vian culture was even greater and older 

 than it has long been known to have 

 been. The investigations which Dr. 

 Uhle has carried on for many years 

 past among the Central and South 

 American tribes guarantees that any- 

 thing that he may announce relative to 

 the ancient Peruvians will bear great 

 weight. 



Dr. Emile Houze, the well known 

 president of the Societe d' Anthropol- 

 ogic de Bruxelles, has been appointed 

 to occupy the chair of Anthropology 

 at l'Ecole des Sciences Sociales de 

 Bruxelles which is a department of the 

 University. 



The meeting of the American Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science 

 at Pittsburg last year was of especial 

 interest to anthropologists; for the 

 reason that it resulted in the creation 

 of a special organization under the 

 name of the American Anthropological 

 Association. The necessity for an or- 

 ganization of this character has been 

 apparent to the members of Section H, 

 of the A. A. A. S. for some years past, 

 and the formation of the new associa- 

 tion will probably designate an epoch 

 in the history of Anthropology in 

 America. 



Mr. Charles H. Ward, of Roch- 

 ester, New York, writes that he 

 has just obtained from the Musee de 

 Palaeontologie Animale, Universite de 

 Liege, a copy of their cast of the in- 

 terior of the brain cavity of the Nean- 

 derthal skull, copies of which he has 

 added to his stock and is prepared to 

 furnish. The writer would doubt 

 very much whether any interior cast 

 of this skull is of any special import- 

 ance. 



W. E. R. 



