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Center, and M. de Mortillet of the North-west. Algeria is 
entrusted to M. Pomel. M. Daubrée is specially charged with 
carved erratic boulders; M. Falsan, with the region of the Alps, 
and M. Trutat with the Pyrenees. 
In accordance with this scheme the inventory of monuments is 
rapidly progressing, and a series of questions to observers has 
been issued, 
ANOTHER ELEPHANT Pipr.—From Prof. J. D. Putnam, secretary 
of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, we have received 
photographs of three interesting pipes from Iowa, one of them 
representing an elephant. Mr. Putnam writes: “The elephant 
pipe is of especial interest as confirming the genuineness of the 
one previously found, being made of the same fine sandstone. It 
was found by the Rev. J. Gass and the Rev. A. Blumer ina 
mound on the farm of Mr. Hass, two miles east of Grandview, 
Louisa county, Iowa, in a bed of ashes, beneath a bed of har 
burned clay. There were no indications of disturbance in the 
mound and the pipe was taken out by the gentlemen with their 
own hands. There is no reasonable doubt of its authenticity. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—Prof. Morse’s Prehistoric researches 
Our views as to t 
(including man) came to be what they are to-day. For Astron- 
