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sion. 2. In a late number of the American Art Review, Mr. F. 
“plant.” If the Davenport tablets and pipes are clever “ plants, 
some very shrewd gentlemen have been hoaxed, but really it is 
unkind to harbor such thoughts if there is any other possible 
explanation of the phenomena. 3. While many of the mounds 
of this continent are of unknown antiquity, it is proved beyond a 
doubt that many are quite recent. It is within the range of pos- 
sibility that the mounds at Cook’s farm were constructed after the 
Indians had received from the Catholic missionaries an idea of 
recording events upon bark, stone, metal, etc. 4. Granting the 
Asiatic origin of the Mound-builders, it is not inconceivable that 
the recollection of the elephant and of written characters, which 
play such a prominent part in the civilization of Asia, should have 
been brought to this continent and permanently recorded in stone. 
5. It is yet an open question whether man existed on this conti- 
nent contemporaneously with the mastodon, or, what amounts to 
the same thing, whether the mastodon survived until man had 
appeared in America. If such had been true, we have in our 
elephant pipes another graphic witness of this acquaintanceship. 
6. The theory that these graphic signs and images are only unde- 
signed coincidences will close our list of conjectures for the pres- 
ent regarding these truly wonderful objects. The paper of Mr. 
the Peabody Museum and the United States Fish Commission. 
The latest testimony is rather unfavorable to the cannibal theory. 
ANTHROPOLOGY IN FRANCE.—The second number of the Revue 
M. J.-J. Da Silva Amada. 
The observations of Dr. Féré were made upon 133 males and 
67 females. Without attempting to repeat his processes, we may 
give some of the author’s results. There is no fixed relation be- 
tween the width of the skull and of the pelvis, notwithstanding. 
M. Pruner-Bey thinks that the form of the cranium agrees with 
that of the thorax and of the pelvis in well marked races. Again, 
while the proportions of the diameter of the skull and of the bi- 
