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THE ATLANTIC SLOPE NATURALIST. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Mr. Adolf F. Bandelier, who eleven 

 years ago went to Peru, and Bolivia 

 to make archeological and anthropo- 

 logical investigations lias returned to 

 the United States. The American 

 Museum of Natural History in New 

 York City has received extensive ma- 

 terial in these lines as the result of 

 Mr. Bandelier's labor. 



Dr. Nicholas Leon, of the National 

 Muesum of Mexico, has been conduct- 

 ing some important archaeological and 

 ethnological investigations in the 

 State of Coahuila. Near the preseut 

 town of Paredon, which is about 500 

 miles north of the City of Mexico, it 

 is considered that the remains of an 

 ancient city have been found, which 

 was at one time destroj-ed by a flood. 

 Walls have been unearthed which 

 were covered with a layer of earth 

 sixty feet in thickness. According to 

 The American Antiquarian, which 

 does not vouch for the accuracy of the 

 account, the indications are that this 

 city was a large one, with possibly a 

 population of 50,000. The osseous re- 

 mains of man and some of the lower 

 animals have been found, the most re- 

 markable of which is the elephant. 

 Dr. George H. Pepper, the Secretary 

 of Section H of the American Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science, 

 and Dr. George A. Dorsey, Secretary 

 of the American Anthropological As- 

 sociation, conjointly announce in a 

 circular tlu\t there will be a meeting 

 of the anthropologists of both associa- 

 tions at St. Louis, Mo., from Decem- 

 ber 28, J 903, to January 2, 1904. 



Dr. George J. Engelmann died on 

 Monday, Nov. 1(>, in Nashua, N. H., 

 where he was stricken with pneumonia 

 while on a visit, He was fifty-five 

 years old. He was born in St. Louis, 

 and was the son of Dr. George Engel- 

 mann, who a, generation ago was 

 recognized as one of the foremost of 

 American botanists. Dr. George J. 

 Engelmann was educated in this 

 country and in Europe and served as a 



j surgeon in the Franco-Prussian war 

 I 1870-71 ; he was for some years profes- 

 | sor of obstetrics in the Post-Graduata 

 | School of the Missouri Medical Col- 

 lege. He was an author of ability, 

 his best known work being "Labor 

 Among Primitive Peoples." He col- 

 lected a very fine series of Missouri 

 Flints and Pottery which is now in 

 the Peabody Museum at Cambridge, 

 Mass. During the later years of his 

 life he devoted a good deal of atten- 

 tion to demograp])3 r and ethnology. 

 It is but a few years since lie moved 

 from St. Louis to Boston. 



Dr. Richard Andree, the German 

 anthropologist, who for a number of 

 years past has been the editor of 

 Globus has retired from that position 

 and is succeeded by H. Singer. 



The volume just issued of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science indi- 

 cates that the section, section H, of 

 Anthropology received some very in- 

 vesting papers. The address of the 

 chairman of the section, Mr. Stewart 

 Culin, is entitled "America the Cradle 

 of Asia," and it contains quite a 

 number of suggestive thoughts based 

 largely upon the author's studies of 

 the games of the American aborigines. 

 There are a number of interesting 

 titles published of papers read before 

 the section but which unfortunately, 

 apart from Mr. Culm's, are not pub- 

 lished, not even abstracts. 



In the American Antliropologist for 

 July-September, 1903, Mr. Samuel P. 

 Verner contributes an article on "The 

 Yellow Men of Central Africa" in 

 which he states that individuals whose 

 skin is of a bright copper color are by 

 no means rare. He estimates that 

 fifteen per cent of the entire popula- 

 tion are of a light color and that they 

 are distributed from the Central Sou- 

 dan to the Cape of Good Hope. They 

 do not comprise separate tribes but are 

 families in various tribes. 



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