128 | General Notes. [ February, 
The following papers on American anthropology have appeared: 
Recent Discoveries in the American Bottom, : 
Howland, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sc., Mar. 2; The Mound-build- 
ers of Illinois, Western Rev., Nov.; in the same periodical, the 
paper of H. A. Rush on Mound-builders in Missouri, before the 
American Association; Are the Indians dying out? S. N. Clarke, 
Bureau of Education; Col. Garrick Mallery read a paper before 
the Washington Philosophical Society, Dec. 8, upon the same 
subject; Rink’s Greenland is reviewed in Nature, Nov. 22d; Die 
Indianer Canadas, Globus, xxxii; Aboriginal Pottery of Salt 
Springs, Ill., Geo. E. Sellers in Popular Science Monthly, Sept.; 
On the Antiquity of Man in America, Dr. Daniel Wilson in Can- 
adian Fournal, Oct.; two volumes of Maj. Powell’s Contributions to 
American Ethnology will soon appear, Vol. II, by Gatschett, 
Mallery, and others, and Vol. III by Powers, Crook, Hazen, and 
Powell; Notes on the Zaparos, paper read before the London 
Anthropological Institute, Nov. 27th; Explorations of Don F. P. 
Moreno in Patagonia, Geographical Magazine, 1877, No. 8; Ueber 
die Eingeborenen von Chiloe, L. Martin in Zeitschrift fir Ethnolo- 
gie, 1877, H. 3; Das Land der Yukararer und dessen bewohner, H. 
v. Holten, same, Heft 2; Die gegenwartige Lage der Indianer in 
den Vereinigten Staaten, Fred. v. Theilmann.—QO. T. Mason, 
Washington, D. C. 
GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY. 
A New Mastopon.—A new species of the 7etralophodon type 
has been recently discovered by Russell S. Hill, in the Loup 
Fork beds of Kansas, which is called by Prof. Cope (Palæonto- 
logical Bulletin, No. 28) T. campester. It is allied to the T. sivalen- 
sis C. and F. in its dentition, and to the T. dongirostris Kaup © 
Europe, in its lower jaw with prolonged symphysis. The spec — 
men obtained has no indication of tusks in the symphysis, and 
the superior tusks have a broad band of enamel, which is not 
found in T. longirostris according to Vacek. T, mirificus Leidy, 
the only other American species of the group, has a short sym- 
physis and a very different composition of the molar teeth. The 
T. campester is about the size of the African Elephant. 
THE Snout FISHES oF THE Kansas CHALK.—Prof. Cope rè- 
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