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Stone tubes, used in smoking tobacco. Am. Antiquarian, 11, No. 
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In closing this section, the writer would enter a mild and 
friendly protest against the careless and ruthless manner in which 
our antiquities are being destroyed. Upon those wealthy gentle- 
men whose tastes have led them to make aboriginal relics a 
matter of merchandise must certainly rest the responsibility of 
having them procured by the most competent hands, and all the 
circumstances and surroundings of the find accurately recorded. 
Somatology.—Whatever may be our opinion respecting the 
materiality of the mind, no one denies that man resembles all 
other living creatures in the method of his generation, in embry- 
onic development, in the periods of growth, maturity, and decay, 
in amenability to his material environment, in disease and he- 
redity, and, briefly, in all those structural and functional charac- 
teristics which go to make up his animal nature. It is also true 
