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= Itza, Ausland, 4. 
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mounting an image of the sun. In the upper corners are fac- 
similes of bird-pipes, and in the space between the pipes and the 
human figure occur various hieroglyphics and the figure of a 
copper axe. The indefatigable industry of the Davenport archæ- 
ologists has more than once received the commendation of this 
journal, they will therefore receive a word of caution with kind- 
hess, and not allow themselves to be duped by some wag who 
will throw discredit upon the discoveries for which we are 
indebted to Messrs. Gass, Farquharson and others. 
The Hon. N. E. Dawson, of Burlington, Ohio, presented to — 
Congress, Feb. 5, a memorial on a Reformed Alphabet and Or- 
thography. 
Keith Johnson will publish a compendium of Geography and 
Travels, one volume to be devoted to each continent. The work 
will be similar to Von Hellwalds’ “ Die Erde und ihre Volker.” 
An Ethnological Museum opened at the Hotel des Invalides, 
Paris, contains a collection of papier maché warriors of all times and 
peoples, civilized and uncivilized, in order to exhibit in one view 
the history of the destructive agencies employed by man. 
The Sociétié d’ Anthropologie has arranged for a series of 
“ Séances pleniéres internationales des Sciences anthropologiques,” 
in connection with the anthropological exhibit at the Paris Ex- 
position. The paper read will be published in a separate volume. 
An Archeological Society has been organized in Japan, called 
Kobutzio-Kai (Society of Old Things). H. Von Siebold, a mem- 
ber of the Society, has opened a mound at Ozmuri near Jeddo, 
containing over 5000 articles in stone, bronze, &c. r. Siebold 
Says that prior to the Christian era it was customary to surround 
the grave of a deceased king or queen with a number of attend- 
ants, buried alive to the neck. Subsequently clay images took the 
place of the living subject, and numbers of these images are found 
in old grave yards. : 
Mr. Frank Cushing has made a very interesting discovery in 
connection with the pottery recently sent from the shell heaps of 
Japan by Prof. Morse. Comparing the marking on this pottery 
with the ornamentation upon a collection of Aino clothing, pre- 
viously sent to to the National Museum by Hon. Horace Capron, 
Mr. Cushing finds the constant recurrence of a conventional pat- 
tern on both, to wit, a series of elongated hexagons, joined at 
their apices, and filled with ornamentation which resembles 
hatching in a wood cut. This marking is produced on the pot- 
tery by the impression of a coarse bast cloth, and on the clothing 
by embroidery. This seems to indicate that the makers of the 
shell-heaps were the ancestors of the Ainos. 
The following papers on American Anthropology have been 
noticed: Grönland und seine Bewohner, l., Ausland, No. 2; 
Vom Amazons und Madeira, Dr. Robert Lallement, Gaea, I. ; Ent- 
deckung der Statue eines Itza-königs in den ruinen von Chichen. 
