= son, Jr., of Mansfield, Ohio, to a typographical error which — 
126 : General Notes. [ February, 
numerous flakes with arrow and spear heads of obsidian, many 
of them much tarnished by long erosion. All were lying mingled 
together on the surface of a bed of clay, which was covered by a 
deposit of “volcanic sand and ashes” of from fifteen to twenty 
feet in depth. This had been drifted away by the wind in some 
localities, thus exposing the remains. Great numbers of speci- 
mens of the fresh-water shell, Carinifex newberryi, of a white 
color, were found with the vertebrate fossils. The locality is the 
basin of a lake, a small remnant of which still remains, and is 
visited by numbers of Mammalia and water-birds at the present 
tıme. 
POoWwELLĽ’s NorTtH AMERICAN Erunorocy.— The first volume 
of a series of “Contributions to North American Ethnology” 
has recently been published at Washington, by Maj. J. W. Powell. 
It is a quarto volume of 361 pages, and contains a number of 
_ able papers, of which the following is a summary: Part I contains 
aper “On the Distribution and Nomenclature of the Native 
me author is represented by a second paper, 
“On the succession of the Shell-heaps of the Aleutian Islands.” 
This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Ameri- 
can kywkkenmeddings. The illustrations of the objects of art 
discovered among the different strata which mark the Littoral, 
the Fishing and the Hunting periods are numerous, and are. 
described at length. Another article, by the same writer, “On 
the Origin of the Innuit” or Eskimo, concludes Part I. After 
reviewing ‘the principal hypothesis of origin and migration, he 
assumes that the larger part of North America may have been 
peopled by way of Behring Straits. The appendix to Part I con- 
tains philological papers by Messrs. Furnhelm, Dall and Gibbs. 
Part II consists of an interesting paper by Dr. Geo. Gibbs, con- 
cerning the habits and customs of the “ Tribes of western Washing- - 
ton and north-western Oregon,” with map showing the distribu- 
tion of Indian tribes of Washington Territory, and a linguistic 
appendix, principally by Dr. Gibbs.—E£. A. Barber. — 
Erratum.—Attention having been called, by Mr. E. Wilkin- 
occurred in one of my recent articles entitled “The Ancient and = 
