556 The American Naturalist. [June, 
that the Tallegwi formerly occupied Ohio, and were thence driven 
south by Huron-Iroquois and Lenapé. (We wish this bark record did 
not depend on Rafinesque for its authenticity.) While willing to agree 
with Dr. Thomas that the Cherokees have been mound-builders, we 
are not ready to admit that he has proved that they were the sole 
mound-builders, nor that he has connected them beyond a doubt with 
the Tallegwi, although we admit that there is a syllabic, rhythmic and 
vocal correspondence between the latter and the name Chellakee. In 
the second paper Thomas points out some of the errors of measurement 
in regard to the surveys of Squier and Davis’ great work, besides giv- 
ing accurate surveys made by the Bureau of Ethnology. ‘* Accurate 
surveys,” by the way, are rather amusing concoctions. We have seen 
a compilation of ‘accurate surveys” of the great Serpent Mound, the 
largest of which was nearly double the smallest, while two made the 
same week, varied about two hundred feet. 
Pilling’s Bibliographies.'—In these, as in the previously-issued 
Eskimo and Siouan lists, the Bureau of Ethnology has made a valuable 
contribution, not only for the student of American linguistics, but for 
those in other lines of American anthropology. The evident care 
bestowed upon them, the references to libraries where copies of the 
rarer works may be found, and the abundant bibliographical notes, 
make the series indispensable for all who wish to know something of 
the American Indian. - To review such works is impossible; to point 
out omissions, or typographical errors, is but cheap criticism, but to 
call attention of those interested to the existence of such works is to 
do them a favor. 
1 Pilling, J.C.: Bibliography of the Muskh. 
es. Pp. 208. 
- Pp.1r4. Bibliography 
of the Iroquoian Languag - 
n Languages, 
Bureau of Ethnology: Washington, 1889. 
