434 - General Notes. [July, 
Moses Strong, Assistant State Geologist. These investigations cover a 
portion of the State to which very little space is given in the great work 
of Lapham in the Smithsonian Contributions. 
An event of considerable interest to anthropologists was the sale of 
Hon. E. G. Squier’s entire library and collection of archeological speci- 
mens, on the 24th of April last. 
The Archives de la Société Américaine de France, has come to hand, 
a pamphlet of four hundred pages, containing, in addition to the journal, 
etc., of the society, treatises upon the Eskimo, the Indians of the Great 
Interior Basin, the Californians, the Mexicans, the Mayas, the Peruvi- 
ans, the Patagonians, and the Fuegans. 
The Hon. Louis H. Morgan is the author of two very elaborate trea- 
tises on American Archeology. One, entitled Montezuma’s Dinner, in 
the April number of the North American Review, aims to overthrow the 
florid descriptions of Mexican political organizations deduced from Span- 
ish authorities by Prescott, Brasseur de Bourbourg, and latterly by H. 
H. Bancroft. The other is an attempt to reconstruct the ancient com- 
munal dwelling of the mound builders of the Mississippi Valley from 
the data of excavations as compared with the testimony of historians and 
the evidence of the modern Pueblos. 
The following European journals, devoted to anthropological investi- 
gations, can receive a brief mention only. Journal of the Anthropolog- 
teal Institute, No. 15, April, 1876, contains papers on the Bhutas, 
on the International Symbols, on Rhabdomancy and Belomancy, on the 
Maories, and on Kitchen Middens in California. 
Revue d’ Anthropologie, 1876, No. 1, in addition to the usual amount 
of valuable critical matter and bibliography, contains original papers ©? 
the Gorilla, on the Brains of Idiots, on Stature, and on the Avares of 
Daghestan. 
No. 3 of Matériaux pour l Histoire Primitive et Naturelle de t Homme 
is a very interesting number. The following subjects are treated: The 
Ossiferous Cavern of Kesserlock at Thayngen, near Schaffhausen ; Sep- 
ulture of the Lacustrian Populations of Lake Neuchatel. (A short 
critique of this work is accompanied by full lists of tertiary diggmg® 
quaternary diggings, surface finds, and cave finds.) Le Dictionnaire 
Archéologique de la Gaule. Reviews are given upon several recent al- 
thropological treatises. The article on lacustrian sepulture is based upon 
the discovery of a tomb in excavating the foundation of a house near the 
remains of a pile-dwelling on the borders of Lake Neuchatel, between 
Auvernier and Columbier. The dead were inclosed in cists, s¢¥ 
corpses in one grave interred from time to time. This sepulchre scene 
to have been in the transition period between the neolithic and bep 
es, because we have in the same cist rude, bronze burial deposits ond 
uncremated bones. The further exploration of this find is expected to 
yield useful results. 
