934 The American Naturalist. [October, 
‘and streams. A summary of the dithensions and groups of these villages 
was given and an outline of the tribal organization, with a brief 
account of the mode of living in the village and some deductions 
concerning the relation of the environment to the development of the 
people. A short biographical sketch of the Indian who made this map 
was also given and his photograph shown. 
Dr. Wilson told of his connection with the Nez Perce tribe of 
Indians in his endeavor to recover possession of the land now occupied 
by the Lapwaii reservation for the benefit of the A. B. C. F. M. (for- 
eign missions), who had sent the first missionaries to that country 
before it became the property of the United States, and who had by 
their possession materially aided in making it such. The title of the 
board to the 640 acres, one mile square, was, he said, as good as that of 
any person in Washington to the house in which he lived; but they 
had never been able to get possession. 
Mr. Frank Leverett, of Madison, Wisconsin, described by means of 
maps and charts the ‘‘ Relation of the Loveland, Ohio, Implement- 
Bearing Terrace to the Moraines of the Ice Sheet.” 
‘“‘ The Utility of Physical Study of Child Life” was next presented 
by Mrs. Laura Osborne Talbott. If ‘« the child of to-day is to become 
the man of to-morrow,”’ is not the responsibility of the present gener- 
ation great regarding the civilization of the coming century? No 
thoroughly philosophical study has taken up the subject of child life at 
a sufficiently early period; the school laws do not permit a child to 
enter the public school before the age of six years, This is the most 
important period of a child’s life, as its acquired perceptions then are 
most numerous, its inherited tendencies become fixed, and the creative 
power of the brain is most easily awakened. From the time that 
consciousness begins to unfold there is begun a series of acts that 
might engage the attention of psychical experts whose duty it would: 
be to watch every indication of development for good or for evil. No 
crude management is required for child life, but teachers of rarest gift, 
whose tact, discernment, and wisdom will best assist in bringing forth 
from the embryo the fully rounded and complete being. Comcnius, 
Pestalozzi, and Froebel have, in their philanthropic labors, conferred 
great benefits upon mankind, yet deeper insight into the child’s mind 
is demanded than has been afforded by them. The demand of the 
age is for more creative power, or for an intellectual force that may be 
able to harmonize the different elements of our civilization. All ques- 
tions arising from the mixed conditions of our present civilization must 
eventually revert to the final question, How can we best develop all the 
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