persons wounded, 44,203 dwelling houses completely and 21,378 par- 

 tially demolished, 23,379 damaged and 4159 burned after collapse, in 

 addition to 1744 other buildings demolished or damaged. The total 

 number of buildings thus affected in the ken was therefore 88,011. 



Recent Deaths. — Charles Smith Wilkinson, government geolo- 

 gist, in Sydney, N. S. W., Aug. 26, 1891, aged 46 years. August von 

 Pelzeln, the well-known ornithologist, in Vienna, Sept. 2, 1891. P. J. 

 F. Lowrey, lepidopterologist, at Clapham Park, England, July 24, 

 1891, at the age of 30 years. Dr. Max Quedenfeldt, a traveler and 

 collector of Coleoptera, in Berlin, July 13, 1891, aged 40 years. 

 Fried rich Wilhelm Meves, the ornithologist, in Stockholm, in April, 

 1891, aged 77 years. Cesare Tapparone Canefri, the conchologist, 

 August 6, 1891, at Quattordio. Dr. Edward Killias, in Chur, Switz., 

 Nov. 14, 1891, aged 63 years; he was a botanist and entomologist. 

 George J. Bettany, December 2, 1891, at the age of 42. He was best 

 known for his labors in condensing the papers of the late W. K. 

 Parker into the useful volume " Morphology of the Skull." 



Indian Literature.— The Bureau of Ethnology has just issued 

 a collection of Omaha and Ponka letters collected and edited by James 

 Owen Dorsey. Seventy-seven of these letters are included, each being 

 given first in interlinear and then in translation. 



Another most valuable publication for the student of American 

 archaeology, published by the same bureau, is Dr. Cyrus Thomas' 

 " Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky Mountains." 

 This is arranged first by States and then by counties, and is compiled 

 from various sources. Like any similar first catalogue there are nec- 

 essarily many omissions and mistakes, but the work will be useful, not 

 only as a record of what is now known, but also as a means of collect- 

 ing more information and correcting errors. Notes will be thankfully 

 received by Prof. Thomas. 



