46 General Notes. (January, 
found in an Ohio mound, lying on the neck of a skeleton. The three, 
occurring in widely separated localities and made by different races, must 
be considered as accidental specimens. No one of them, however, can 
be certainly considered as a purely aboriginal production, all having 
been either tampered with or manufactured for purposes of fraud. — 
BARBER. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News. — Number 23 of the publications of the 
Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society is a tract of 
eight pages upon Archxological Frauds, written by Colonel Charles 
Whittlesey. A list is given “of all the engraved stones in the United 
States,” nine in number, which have come under the observation of the 
author. They are the Grave Creek Stone; a quartz axe, sketched by 
Dr. G. J. Farish for Professor Wilson ;-a grooved axe or maul, repro- 
duced by Dr. Wilson, on page 412 in his Prehistoric Man; the Holy 
Stone, of David Wyrick ; an epitome of the ten commandments in He- 
brew, found by Mr. Wyrick; a stone similar to the Holy Stone, from 
a mound in Licking County, Ohio; a grooved stone axe, from Butler 
County, Ohio; a stone alleged to have been plowed up on the eastern 
shore of Grand Traverse Bay, Mich.; and a stone maul found, in 1875, 
in an ancient mine pit, near Lake Desor, Lake Superior. The prinicpal 
part of the tract is devoted to.the various copies and versions of the 
famous Grave Creek Stone. Six drawings are given, the last being a 
copy used by Monsieur Levy Bing, at the Congress of Americanists, at 
Nancy, in good faith, as a Canaanitish inscription. Colonel Whittlesey 
joins with our ablest archeologists in deprecating the credulity which 
attaches to these palpable frauds. 
The Pennsylvania Historical Society have published Heckewelder’s 
Indian Nations, as the twelfth volume of their series. The apology that 
Mr. Heckewelder had filled his book with “ the national traditions and 
myths of the Indians” can but provoke a smile from those who have 
sought for days through wearisome pages to hear the story of the red 
man’s faith from his own lips. This reprint of an old book has our un- 
qualified praise for the spirit which conceived it, and the taste and accu- 
racy which characterize its execution. 
The Smithsonian Report for 1875 is just issued and contains the fol- 
lowing anthropological matter: International Code of Symbols for 
Charts of Prehistoric Archeology (illustrated), by O. T. Mason; Cer- 
tain Characteristics pertaining to Ancient Man in Michigan, by Henry 
Gillman (illustrated) ; The Stone Age in New Jersey, by C. C. Abbott, 
M. D. (223 illustrations). 
The war in the Turkish provinces has awakened a fresh interest in 
the ethnological questions involved in this classic land. Perhaps there 
is no corner of the world where the questions of race, religion, language, 
and government more overlap and intermingle. To those of our readers 
who take an interest in these phases of the controversy we recommend the 
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