﻿332 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Frank Baker: Torsion of the humerus in North American Indians. 



Edw. S. Morse: Additional observations on ancient methods of arrow release. 



Geo. M. Maxwell: Child mind. Ancient fortifications in the Ohio Valley. 



F. W. Putnam: The way bone fish-hooks were made. The diversity of the 

 mounds aud earthworks of the United States. 



John Muller: The Maori of New Zealand as compared with other members 

 of the Polynesian group. Self-evident limits regarding a knowledge of the origin 

 of languages. 



J. R. Walker: Some notes on the possibility of the re calcification of the 

 human teeth. 



J. Owen Dorset: Uses of the terms grandfather and grandmother among the 

 Siouan tribes. An Indian secret society. 



Zelia N. Pinart: Preliminary note on the analyses of the Mexican inscriptions 

 and codices. 



"W". Mc Adams: The salt kettles and pans of the mound builders. An old 

 copper kettle of Spanish origin from a mound in Illinois. 



Cyrus Thomas : The testimony of some recently explored mounds. 



Edward P. Vining: A query as to the sepulchral rites of the mound builders. 



D. G. Brinton 1 : The phonetic elements in the graphic system of the Mayas and 

 Mexicans. 



Chas. P. Hart : Piute herbalist. 



H. O Hoyet : Eyah Shah, a sacrificial stone of the Dakotahs. 



T. C. Mendenhall : Characteristic curves of composition. 



Section I. — Economic Science and Statistics. 

 John Muller : How can spelling reform become a success ? A more humane 

 and novel mode of criminal correction. 



Joseph Jastrow: CenteDarianism in the United States. 

 L. L. Seaman : The social waste of a great city. 



E. T. Peters: Errors in the Ricardian theory of rent. 

 Lorin Blodget : Silk culture. 



E. B. Elliott : Tables showing for a series of years the rates of interest realized 

 by investors in the securities of the U. S. Government. Formulas for determin- 

 ing the U. S. gold value of silver bullion. 



Peter Collier: Recent results in the sorghum sugar industry. Statistics 

 relating to the dairy industry. 



4. Van N'ostrancPs Science. Series. — Two recent issues of this 

 series are : No. 85, The Luminiferous iEther, by De Volson Wood, 

 121 pp. 18mo, a series of papers reprinted from the Philosophical 

 Magazine; No. 86, Handbook of Mineralogy, etc., J. C. Foye, 

 180 pp. 18mo, containing determinative tables and brief descrip- 

 tions of minerals found in the United States. 



Errata for the August Number. 



Page 129, line 15 from bottom, for millimeters read centimeters. 

 Page 132, line 11 from top, for four hundred times read forty times. 



