678 General Notes. [September, 
nal papers. The report of Mr. Putnam, the curator, sums up the 
- labors of Dr. Abbott, Mr. Schumacher, Mr. Gilman, Dr. Earl 
Flint, Dr. Edward Palmer, Mr. Curtis, Dr. Patrick, and of the im- 
mediate force of the institution. The list of contributions is fol- 
lowed by a series of papers, of which a brief sketch is appended. 
Mr. Lucien Carr, who has thoroughly qualified himself for the 
task by studies abroad, gives measurements of 150 crania from 
California, in which the following characteristics are included : ca- 
pacity, length, breadth height, index of breadth, index of height, 
width of frontal, length of face, length of nose, breadth of nose, 
basi-nasal length, basi-alveolar length, ptereon, nasal index, gnathic 
index, height of orbit, width of orbit, orbital index, zygomatic 
diameter. 
Dr. C. C. Abbot continues his investigations upon the flint 
chips of New Jersey. Two kinds of workshops have been discov- 
ered, one near the natural sources of supply indicates that the In- 
dians came indiscriminately; each to make points for himself; the 
other, that a few skilled workmen plied their handicraft. The 
other important discovery of Dr. Abbott is the existence of argil- 
lite points belonging to an earlier time than the same implements 
of flint-like mineral, and forming a connecting link between these 
latter and those found in the drift gravels of the river valley. 
Mr. Paul Schumacher gives us the methods of making pottery 
and basket ware among the Kahweyahs, on the coast of Cali- 
fornia. The important points to notice are, the use of an oval 
dish for the potter’s wheel, and the use of the bone needle in 
stitching basket ware. 
The article of Mr. Elmer R. Reynolds on soapstone quarries 
has been noticed in another connection. foe 
The Hon. Lewis H. Morgan having visited the Pueblos in 1878, 
