528 General Notes. [August, 
lish a library of anthropological works which shall be free to all 
students in this department of science. At an early day classes 
wil] be formed which will be instructed in the various branches of 
the subject by means of a course of lectures, to be delivered by 
competent teachers and illustrated by means of the collections at 
hand.” 
CHUNGKEE STONES AND Quolts seem to occur on the Sus- 
quehanna, in South-eastern Pennsylvania, the former with a 
shallow concavity on each side, deepening toward the center ; the 
latter roughly lenticular, margin chipped to an edge; in a speci- 
men before me (three and a-half inches in diameter) one side has 
a fovea for the thumb. Dr. Abbott’s figure 210 may represent a 
quoit.—S. S. Haldeman, Chickies, Pa. 
Iron Axes like figure 31 (AMERICAN NATURALIST, Dec., 1878, 
p. 785) are regarded as French. They occur in Pennsylvania on 
the Susquehanna, and are without steel. One before me has on 
each side the three impressed circlets thus ,*,, their interior 
shaped like a rude star, and not as in figure 31, which may be 
erroneous, See American Antiquarian, Jan., 1879, p. 170-2.— 
A Hey 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—In the Magazine of American His- 
tory for April, Dr. Charles Rau gives a letter from Mr. Worsaae, 
director of the Museum of Northern Antiquities, at Copenhagen, 
upon the transfer of the Dighton rock to the Society of Northern 
Antiquaries by Mr. Niels Amzen, and its re-transfer to the Boston 
committee upon a monument to commemorate the landing of 
the Northmen in North America. 
_ Dr. Frank L. James, of Osceola, Arkansas, writes to the Smith- 
sonian Institution describing vases with the orifice on the side of 
the neck, and bearing upon the bottom unmistakable evidence of 
having been moulded upon a gourd which was subsequently 
burned out. 
Prof. Cleveland Abbe draws attention to an article in the Mew 
England Historical and Genealogical Register, Jan.. 1879, by the 
Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, on pre-historic copper implements. The 
communication is in the form of an open letter to the Historical 
Society of Wisconsin. Mr. Slafter seeks, at first, to show from 
the cultivation of the savages in other directions that it does not 
seem to be an act of credulity to believe that the Indians of the 
early settlers were capable of manufacturing these copper imple- 
menti, by shaping them under the hammer or by casting them in 
moulds. 
The second part of the article consists of testimony drawn 
from the journals of early European explorers or colonists show- 
— ing that implements of copper were in use among, or were made 
~ by the Indians then inhabiting the country. Jacques Cartier, in 
