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writings of most North American tribes, ancient and modern, in 
which the sun symbol occurs frequently. 
5. Also in the position of ruined stone houses which look to- 
ward the east, the larger rectangular buildings of the Pacific slope 
being built so as to face the cardinal points. 
6. Finally, we can observe signs of this worship in the orienta- 
tion of dead bodies in graves. 
If we accept these briefly stated facts, there can be no reason- 
able doubt that the worship of the sun entered, to some degree, 
into the religions of the American aborigines; how far, we have 
not the means of determining; yet, quoting the poet Southey’s 
words,— 
: “ I marvel not, O sun! that unto thee 
In adoration man should bow the knee, © 
And pour the prayer of mingled awe and love; 
For like a god thou art, and on thy way 
Of glory sheddest, with benignant ray, 
Beauty, and life, and joyance from above.”’ 
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A NEW LOCALITY FOR CORDYLOPHORA. 
BY S. F. CLARKE. 
HIS interesting form of compound hydroid was first discov- 
ered in this country by Prof. Leidy, a number of years ago. 
It was found living “in a slightly brackish pond near the coast,” 
in the neighborhood of Newport, Rhode Island. In October, 
1870, it was again taken by Prof. Leidy, this time in the Schuyl- 
kill river, near Philadelphia. A record of the same will be found 
in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 
Philadelphia, for 1870, page 113, from which we learn that 
Prof. Leidy had not decided whether his specimens were dis- 
tinct from C. lacustris Allman. He says “It appears how- 
ever to be much smaller. Allman says the colonies are sev- 
eral inches and the polyps a line in length. Ours are not 
more than one-half that size. As a variety it might be named 
C. americana.” Unfortunately there are no specimens to refer to 
and their specific identity must be left undetermined. 
On the thirteenth of last October a collecting party of three 
from thé John Hopkins University, consisting of Dr. Brooks, Dr. 
Uhler and the writer, were so fortunate as to find Cordylophora 
lacustris Allman, living in great abundance within seven or eig 
miles of Baltimore. The mouth of Curtis’ creek, from the point 
