744 General Notes. [ October, 
ment) are the primary and essential factors. Mr. Ward presented 
an elaborate schedule of human wants. 
30. Mr. Mayer presented to the association a beautiful speci- 
men of a polished “ chungkee stone,”\and from indications upon 
it argued that the common interpretation of their function is 
correct. 
31-34. No abstracts have been furnished. 
35. The purport of this paper may be learned from Mr. Morse’s 
letter in the NATURALIST for September, pp. 656-662 
e next meeting will be held in Cincinnati, with Col. Garrick 
Mallery as chairman, and Judge J. G. Henderson as secretary. 
A section of anthropology will then be formed. 
The Saratoga volume of the association, just issued, contains 
the following papers in full : 
he Sign Language of the North American Indians, by pathes — U.S.A. 
On the Explanation of cpa gan. Tr papais sion, by Lou 
Notes on the Archæology of t Cha amplain valley, b y Gore H. Perkin 
Mythologie, Philosophy. Kaden of Malet John W. Powell, vice- pendi sec- 
UNSYMMETRIC LANCE-POINTS. “uw hits examing the archeologi- 
cal collections of Peter Neff, Esq., at Gambier, Ohio, I discovered. 
a flint lance or arrow-point of such peculiar shape and workman- 
ship as to merit a figure and full 
greatest width, has been a 
shaped. Across the face of the stone 
there extends a natural vein having 
the appearance of a flaw. It is ev vi- 
dent that after undertaking to form a 
concluded to make a smaller an 
more perfect specimen by ingeniously 
using this vein for one of the sides. 
The accompanying figure brings out 
this fact clearly. The specimen is 
wg Mairi and beautifully formed. 
arks from an attempt to break the 
specimen along the vein, are seem 
near both extremities. On page 292, 
ol. xi, of the NATURALIST, Prof. 
symmetrical arrow-heads and allied 
forms, one of which (Fig. 8) bears $0 
“Found ee E Walhonding, Coshocton nope a resemblance to our specimen — 
sg emg o lead to the inquiry whether the 
ie same eae may not bE) ives in both cases. —E. T. Nelson, 
Oho A Unive ersity. 
