328 General Notes. [ May, 
in Southern California. His work era chiefly confined to Santa 
Barbara county and portions of San Luis Obispo and Ventura 
counties. The regions of the Santa Inez, Santa Maria, Arroyo 
rande, Ventura and Santa Clara rivers, and some of their tribu- 
taries, were examined, and the sites of old pueblos mapped. In 
the collections made, and the study of the remains of the nearly 
or quite extinct Santa Barbara stock, much additional light has 
been thrown on their hitherto scanty history. A remarkable 
feature, of Mr. Bower’s discoveries in the burial places of this 
race is that he has found exact duplicates of the stone imple- 
ments figured in Dr. Schliemann’s Mycenz. Mr. Bowers is pre- 
paring an exhaustive monograph of his interesting soe 
which will be published by the Department of the Inter 
CRANIA AS CINERARY URNS IN THE MOUNDS OF HB arti- 
cle in the NATURALIST for November, 1878, by Mr. Henry Gil- 
man, on the utilization of crania as cinerary urns, calls to mind 
what is probably a parallel case, which recently came under the 
writer's observation in this vicinity. 
In this ae the mound, which was opened under the direc- 
tion of Dr. Charles L. Metz, of gon sane UE was composed of a 
light sandy can like the surrounding soi t had received an 
additional layer of yellow clay, ranging oari six to twelve inches 
in thickness. Its measurements are, approximately, as follows : 
Circumference 200 feet, height 7 feet. It is situated on the “ sec- 
ond bottom” or plateau of the Little Miami river, about one 
hundred and fifty feet above the water line, and distant about one- 
third of a mile from the river. A trench four feet in width and 
as deep, apparently, as the original surface, was carried to its cen- 
ter from opposit® sides, but without at first finding anything to 
indicate the former presence of man. Continuing a little deeper, 
however, almost directly in the center, there was found a sma 
circumscribed deposit of ashes mixed with fragments of char- 
coal and charred bones, about three or four handsful in all; with 
these were mingled pieces of a human skull in perfectly ‘sound 
condition so far as the action of fire was concerned, but very soft 
and friable through decay. They regained their hardness to some 
extent after being dried by exposure to the air..— Frank W. Lang- 
don, Madisonville, Ohio. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—The Yournal of the Anthropologi- 
cal Institute, Vol. vim, No. 2, for November, 1878, contains a clus- 
ter of very important oo s. Mr. W. Flinders Petrie discusses the 
vexed question of Metrology and Geometry in Ancient Remains. 
Two P seem to be certain upon this subject: all builders of 
historic Monum t e Miami valley,” with C vare Charles L. Metz, 
of the Cincinnati Society “ Natural Histo, Vol. 1, No 3,0 > r, 
1878. mound he » , Group A, and has been open nce 
