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far from Asher creek, on the southwesterly side of the Solomon 
river, in Cloud county. The locality is on a rolling prairie, just 
ve the river bottom, which is here aie narrow. he most 
marked feature of this village is the pottery, where their domestic 
articles were manufactured. It covers an area of from one-fourth 
_ to half an acre, rising irregularly at the highest point about two 
feet above the level of the adjoining prairie, and is composed to a 
great extent of the materials and debris from the old workshops. 
In it we found a considerable quantity of the clay, dug from the 
banks of an adjoining ravine, which had never been moulded ; ; and 
The extent of the village was obscure, as the rank grass had 
Covered the ground for long ages and nearly obliter ated all traces 
of what once existed.” 
The next meeting will be held at Topeka, in Sept., 1874. Prof. 
Snow was elected president, Prof. Fraser retiring from the chair. 
Tue first award of the Grand Walker prize of $1,000 was voted 
by the Council of the Boston Society of Natural History, on Oct. 1, 
to Mr. Alexander Agassiz of Cambridge, for investigations on the 
embryology, structure and geographical distribution of the Radi- 
ates, and especially on the Echinoderms, and the publication of 
the results as embodied in his recent work. 
The Annual Walker prize, for 1873, of $60, was, at the same 
meeting, awarded to A. S. Packard, Jr., for his essay on the devel- 
opment of the common house fly. 
very deserving institution has recently been established in 
Cincinnati, under the title of the Cincinnati Acclimatization So- 
ciety, its object being to effect the introduction of such foreign 
irds as are worthy of note for their song or their services to the 
farmer or horticulturist. The society announces that during last 
Spring it expended $5,000 in introducing fifteen additional spe- 
cies of birds, and that it has already successfully accomplis! 
the acclimatization of the European skylark, which is stated to 
be now a prominent feature of the summer landscape in the vicin- 
ity of Cincinnati. Among the species which it is proposed to in- 
troduce is the European titmouse, considered abroad as one of the 
most successful foes of insects injurious to vegetation.— Nature. 
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