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ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—Major Powell and Mr. F. W. Put- 
nam, after the meeting of the American Association at Nashville, 
made some very important investigations among the mounds and 
slab-graves of Tennessee, of which Mr. Putnam will give an ac- 
count in the next report of the Peabody Museum. 
The Rev. Stephen Bowers has ‘sent to the National Museum 
an exceedingly valuable collection of relics from the southern 
coast of California. The bone and shell implements and ‘orna- 
ments form the most attractive feature of the collection. 
In the last volume of the Proceedings of the American Anti- 
quarian Society, Mr. Stephen Salisbury, Jr., reproduces a romantic 
description of Dr. Le Plongeon’s excavations in Yucatan, and his 
discovery of a statue called Chac-mool, with photo-lithographic 
rawings. 
Some valuable information upon Mexican antiquities will be 
found in “Anales del Museo Nacional de Mexico, Tomo I 
Entrega [*, published in Mexico. ; 
Mr. George J. Gibbs, of Turks and Caicos Islands, sends to the 
Smithsonian Institution a manuscript in which he endeavors to 
prove that those islands, and not Guanihani or Watlings Island, 
were the first landing place of Columbus. Enclosed in the manu- 
script was a photograph of another wooden stool, somewhat 
similar to that figured in the Smithsonian Report of 1876. 
Jansen, McClurg & Co. have published in a separate pamphlet 
Gov. Bross’s paper on immortality, or all life conditionally im- 
mortal, read before the American Association in Nashville. 
The Munich Society of Anthropology have commenced the 
publication of a separate organ entitled “ Beitrage zur Anthro- 
_ pologie und Urgeschichte Bayerns.” The four parts already pub- 
lished are full of interesting matter and elegantly illustrated. 
he following works of interest to anthropologists are an- 
- : nounced: The Origin of Nations, Geo. Rawlinson (Scribner's); 
The Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, R. A. Proctor (Putnam) ; 
Mycenz, Schlieman (Scribner's); Die Bevolkerung der Erde, 
India, Triibner’s Catalogue; Cyprus, di Cesnola (Murray, Lon- 
_ don); The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, Geo. Dennis (ib.); 
-= China,a H istory of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People, 
= Ven. J. H. Gray (Macmillan). 
) : 
In Professor Shield’s recent work on the Final Philosophy are 
_ Some very important sections upon anthropology 
On the shores of Mobile river, just above the city of Mobile, 
_ Vast deposits of shells have been discovered. The Mobile and 
_ Ohio Railroad recently utilized one of these beds to pave their 
_Stock-yard, and in doing so unearthed some beautiful pottery and 
other relics of aboriginal settlement. Through the activity of 
r. K. M. Cunningham this treasure has been secured for the 
