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volume ii. of their proceedings, a handsome brochure of 148 pages. 
The academy, which has grown to be one of the most efficient local so- 
cieties in the country, contemplates erecting a building for its meetings 
and for the exhibition of its specimens. ‘The following is a list of the 
papers on archeology: Exploration of a Mound near Utah Lake, by 
Julia J. Wirt; Manufacture of Pottery by Mojave Indian Women, by 
Dr. E. Palmer; Shell Money and other Primitive Currencies, by W. 
H. Pratt; Mound Explorations in Jackson County, Iowa, by C. T. 
Lindley ; Exploration of Mound No. 3, Cook’s Farm Group, and Dis- 
` covery of Inscribed Tablets, by Rev. J. Gass; On the Inscribed Tablets 
found by Rev. J. Gass, by R. J. Farquharson; Recent Find of Skulls 
and Skeletons in Ohio, by Rey. S. D. Peet ; Exploration of Mound No. 
10, Cook’s Farm Group, by Rev. J. Gass; Description of Inscribed 
Stones found in Cleona Township, Scott County, Iowa, by Rev. J. Gass ; 
Exploration of Mounds on the Farm of Col. William Allen, by W. H. 
From the author, C. C. Abbott, M. D., we have received a pamphlet 
reprinted from the Tenth Annual Report of the Peabody Museum, en- 
titled Discovery of Supposed Paleolithic Implements from the Glacial 
Drift in the Valley of the Delaware River, near Trenton, N. J. As the 
result of his investigations the author comes to the conclusion that “ the 
tude implements found in the gravel were fashioned by man during the 
glacial period, and were deposited with the associated gravels as we now 
find them.” 
Mr. W. H. Jackson, of the Hayden Survey, has added another trophy 
to those that decorate his cliff dwelling in the fourth story of the Second 
National Bank Building, Washington. Having gone out to New Mex- 
10 in the spring he made accurate measurements of one of the best pre- 
served of the pueblos, and has now reproduced it in plaster in exact 
Proportions. These plaster models by Mr. Jackson are certainly the ` 
best object-lessons in American archeology we have ever seen. 
The State Archeological Association of Indiana held its meeting 
September 12th and 13th, at Indianapolis. The American Anthropo- 
cal Association met at Cincinnati, September 5th, and the Anthro- 
Pological Subsection of the American Association at Nashville, Tenn., 
August 29th. | 
Nature for May 24th and the following five or six numbers contain 
a valuable report of a conference held by the London Anthropological 
Institute, concerning our present knowledge of the antiquity of man in 
England. Messrs. John Evans, Dawkins, Hughes, Teddemann, Busk, 
Rolleston, Fox, Sayce, Callard, and Harrison took part in the discus- 
— The result of the conference seems to have been that as yet no 
Positive evidence has been adduced of the preglacial or intraglacial ex- 
nee of man in England. Messrs. Belt, Geikie, and Sketchly, in sub- 
Sequent communications to Nature, take issue with this opinion. 
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