626 General Notes. [ October, 
In Part IV. of the last volume of the Journal of the Anthropological 
Institute the following subjects of general interest are discussed: The 
Measurement of the Officers and Men of the Second Royal Survey Mili- 
tia, by Col. Lane Fox; The Chalk at Cissbury, by J. Park Harrison; 
The Ethnology of the Germans, by H. H. Howorth; On the Classifica- 
tion of Arrowheads, by W. J. Knowles; On Language and Thought, by 
Henry Sweet. 
Prof. Wills de Hass has issued a Syllabus of a Course of Lect- 
ures on American Prehistoric Archeology before the College of Fine 
Arts, Syracuse University. This being the first attempt to popularize 
in this manner the whole subject of prehistoric archeology in our 
country, we would congratulate his hearers if the richness of the lectures 
bear any comparison with the luscious bill of fare. 
We would call the attention of our readers to two works of extraor- 
dinary merit, from the pen of our countrymen, and regret that want of 
space forbids an extended review of them. The one is Peru; Incidents 
of Travel and Exploration in the Lands of the Incas, by E. George 
Squier; and the other, Ancient Society : or, Researches in the Lines of 
Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism, to Civilization, by 
Lewis H. Morgan. Both are the mature if not the final work of our 
most distinguished anthropologists, — authors whose works are known 
and whose praises are spoken wherever men are found who look with 
tenderness upon those mementoes of antiquity which in their day were 
the stepping-stones of history. 
Many archeologists have been astonished at the beauty of form and 
the exquisite finish of the jadeite celts found in the West Indies, and 
have often wondered how they were hafted and put to use. The problem 
has been solved recently by two celts sent to the National Museum from 
Turk’s and Caicos islands, by Mr. George Gibbs. One of them is à 
light jadeite, oval-sectioned celt set in a mortised handle of hard wood ; im 
the other, the handle and blade are of a single piece of jadeite, sculpt- 
ured to imitate a celt in a wooden handle. They will be figured in am 
forthcoming Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. From 
the same locality two low wooden stools were sent by Professor Gabb and 
Mr. Frith, answering exactly to those described by Herrera and the other 
historians of the voyage of Columbus. They are made of a single 
piece of wood, in imitation of a turtle, the head and fore legs projecting 
in front, and the tail rising to form the back of the stool. These, aie 
valuable in establishing the use of certain sagged stone implemen 
hitherto called metates. One of these stone seats in the National Mu- 
seum, belonging to the Latimer collection, is a fac-simile of the w e 
stools above described. These will also be figured in the Smithsonian 
report for the present year. hy 
A very valuable contribution to American ethnology is EthnograP 7 
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- and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians, by Washington Matthews, 
