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11. Specimens of minerals which have served as material for 
- ante-historic and primitive man for the fabrication of 
tools, and charts of their distribution. 
12. Specimens of fossil and extant plants which are important 
in the study of the conditions of existence as affecting 
primitive races. 
13. Remains of Pag Pat animals, or such as are snalee 
to the conditions of existence among the lower races. 
Skeletons and ick models of pee Bek 
necessary to the comparative study of fossils. 
14. Apparatus of si es i Na research. 
15. Anatomical models for the ii study of races, 
necessary for yalt and the study of general 
anthropological quest 
16. Chemico-technical aA upon objects of pre- 
historic arc gy. 
I7. paeng manuals designed to impart knowledge con- 
erning the races of men, used in the courses of history 
oa geography of the primary and secondary schools. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati, 
have issued a pamphlet of 75 pages, by Judge M. F. Force, con- 
taining two papers, the first of which is entitled, “Some Early 
Notices of the Indians of Ohio,” the second, “ To what Race did 
the Mound-builders belong.” In the latter half of the seventeenth 
century, after the destruction of the Erie s by the Five Nations, 
in 1656, what is now the State of Ohio was uninhabited. In the 
next half century, the first half of the eighteenth, various tribes 
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settlements into the North-western portion of Ohio and became 
permanently fixed there. Shawnees settled the Scioto Valley, 
Delawares moved to the valley of the Muskingum. Little detach- 
ments of the Five Nations, mostly Senecas, occupied part of the 
northern and eastern borders. The band of Senecas who settled 
between the Muskingum and the Pennsylvania border were called 
Mingoes. Parties of Cherokees often penetrated north of the 
Ohio, between 1700 and 1750, and later a party of them settled 
among the Wyandots, in nas neighborhood of Sandusky. The 
history of the Eries and the Shawnees occupies the most of the 
first paper. and is well fortified by references to-the original 
authorities from which the author has drawn. The paper upon 
the Mound-builders was read before the Congrès International 
des Americanistes, at Luxembourg, September, 1877. The con- 
clusions to which the author arrives, are as foilows: “ The present 
state of information, therefore, leads to the conclusion that the 
Mound-builders were tribes of American Indians of the same race 
with the tribes now living; that they reached a stage of advance- 
ment about equal to that of the Pueblo Indians; that they were 
flourishing about a thousand years ago, and earlier and later ; and 
