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608 General Notes. [ August, 
ARcH moLoGicaL Hints.—Mr. Josiah Morrow, ina letter to the 
Smithsonian Institution, describes a work in Warren county, 
Ohio, in which the earth of the banks is very much altered by 
fire. Is there any evidence in this of Mr, Morgan’s theory that 
many of our earthworks were sites of communal dwellings? The 
earth may have been baked by the lodge fires, 
n a conversation with Mr. Stevenson about the process of pot- 
tery manufacture among the Pueblo Indians, I found that the 
women, in making those symmetrical, round- bottomed jars, use 
as a support a box of fine dry sand, They turn the mass around 
in the sand while they are working it-up into shape. After finish- 
ing the jar, they wash off the sand and cover the surface with a 
thin paste of prepared clay and water. In this rude support, so 
secure and yet so yielding, I could but see the ga Sig: of the 
potter’s wheel. Since writing the foregoing, I hav en Mr. 
Schumacher’s o of pottery making in California, which 
confirms fia 
The same Tadians in making their wares, owing to the scarcity 
of fresh pE use the rackish waters of the saline pools. The 
clay itself is also impregnated with salt. It may be that this 
necessity, SO frequently the “mother of invention,” is the true 
secret of the quasi glazing found Fo much of the Pueblo pot- 
tery, eel the oldest.—O. 
PROF. Frower’s LECTURES. oe the past season Prof. J. 
W. Flower delivered a course of lectures before the Royal Col- 
lege of Surgeons in Engla e have earnestly desired to see 
a full report of the ee as “yet the best account is a series of 
short reviews in ee British Medical Fournal for April and May of 
this current year. 
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