1880. ] Geology and Paleontology 905 
The aie caves of La Crosse valley, by Edward Brown. 
The theogony of the Sioux, by Stephen a x iggs 
irae mytholo ogy, by Rasmus B. Ander: 
crifices in ancient times. Trata., ty Poe ' Gratacap. 
Peakiistoric relics of Lowndes county, } Miss., by Albert C. Love, 
In the oriental department we have notes from Selah Merrill, 
A. H. Sayce and O. D. Miller. The correspondence, editorial 
notes, archeological notes, linguistic notes, art and architecture, 
and exchanges are unusually full and valuable. 
Mounn Re ics From ILttnois.—Dr. P. R. Hoy, of Racine, Wis- 
consin, sends us photographs of a cranium taken from one of a 
group of mounds near Albany, Illinois. The tumuli are on the 
summit of a high ridge overlooking the Mississippi river. The 
one from which the skull was exhumed is about eight feet high, 
and forty feet in circumference. The skeleton was in a sitting 
posture at the base of the mound, the soil about it being of a 
darker color than that of the ridge below. On the top of the cra- 
nium was an inverted dish, holding about as much asa good 
sized tea-cup, the depth being just ‘half the diameter. The out- 
side is covered with fine basket markings, and four shields cross- 
barred, two of them with a central ring, are embossed at equal 
distances on the outside. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—The “ Archiv für Antropologie has 
introduced a department of abstracts from anthropological litera- 
ture foreign to Germany. Dr. Emil Schmidt, of Essen, Rhenis 
Prussia, has charge of that portion relating to America. He is 
very anxious to receive copies of all publications relating to our 
special subject. The last number reviews the Peabody Museum, 
the Davenport Academy, the American Antiquarian, and the 
NATURALIST. 
GEOLOGY AND PALAONTOLOGY. 
Tue Devonian Insecrs.—Mr. S. H. Scudder has recently pub- 
lished a memoir on the oldest known insects, those found in the 
Devonian of New Brunswick. The locality from which the 
specimens were obtained, is not far from the town of St. Johns, 
from shales very rich in vegetable remains, and was dis scovered 
- by the late Prof. C. F. Hartt. Six species are described by Mr. 
Scudder, and as may be supposed, are of considerable babel: 
A stratigraphic section by Professor J. W. Dawson accompanies 
the memoir. Mr. Scudder’s conclusions are as follows 
“ It only remains to sum up the results of this madd of 
` the devonian insects, and especially to discuss their relation to 
later or now existing types. This may best be done by a separate 
consideration of the following points : 
“There is nothing in the structure of these earliest known insects 
to interfere with a former conclusion that the general type of wing 
structure has remained unaltered from the es times. Three 
