904 General Notes. { December, 
marriage brings early wrinkles: and the countenance of the god- 
dess of mercy will ever afterward be favorable. 
“On another occasion we may possibly describe other forms of 
divination.” 
BURIAL OF THE DEAD.—The third in the series of Introductions 
to the study of the North American Indians, issued by the Bureau 
of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, is a study of mortu- 
ary customs by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, U. S.A. In the preface Ma- 
jor Powell defines the work of the Bureau and the value of a study 
of mortuary customs in order to comprehend the philosophy of 
the people among whom they are practiced. Dr. Yarrow, after 
quoting from a circular issued by him three years ago, containing 
a series of questions upon burial customs, prooeeds ‘to give a 
ca: KOENA of burials, which we produce in full: 
Inhumation in pits, graves, holes in the ground, mounds, 
ae. sad caves. 
2. Cremation, generally on the surface, occasionally beneath, 
the resulting ashes or the bones being placed in pits, in the 
ground, in boxes placed on scaffold or trees, in urns, or some- 
times scattered. 
3. Embalmment, or a process of mummifying, the remains be- 
ing afterwards placed i in the earth, in caves, mounds, or charnel- 
houses, 
4. Aerial sepulture, the bodies being deposited on scaffolds or 
trees, in boxes or canoes, the two latter receptacles supported on 
scaffolds or posts, or on the ground, 
. Aquatic burial, beneath the water or in canoes, which were 
turned adrift. 
This order is not observed in “the volume, the sub-divisions of 
the subject occurring as follows: Inhumation ; burials in cabins, 
wigwams, or houses, called ‘“ lodge-burial ” ; stonegraves, or cists ; 
burial in mounds; cave burial; mummies ; urn-burial ; surface 
burial ; cairn- burial ; oe partial» «cremation, by which a 
-clay mold is taken ; burial above ground ; box burial; tree and 
urial ; ; partial scaffold burial, and ossuaries ; superterrene 
and aerial burial in canoes; aquatic burials; living sepulchres 
(by which is meant exposure to birds and beasts of f prey); and can-. 
nibalism. The volume of 114 pages is made up of quotations 
from published works and from the author’s correspondence illus- 
trative of the kinds of material which he is most anxious to gather 
for a large and exhaustive work on mortuary customs. Commu- 
nications should be addressed to Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Bureau of 
Ethnology, Washington, D. C. 
THE American ANTIQUARIAN.—The editor of this journal has 
widened its scope somewhat by introducing papers on Orienta 
archeology. Number four concludes the volume and the second 
year. The contents are as follows: 
