404. General Notes. [ June, 
bed of steatite had been lowered several feet by the removal of 
the stone, and it is certain that great numbers of vessels were 
fashioned at this quarry. —Z. A. Barber. 
urgeon John H. Janeway has presented to the Army Medical 
Museum five crania from the shell-heaps near St. Augustine, 
Florida. These crania are especially remarkable for the position, 
shape and size of the foramen magnum, and for the great size o 
the basilar process, occasioned by the extremely backward posi- 
tion of the foramen magnum. The museum has also received 
from Second Lieutenant C. A. H. McCauley a cranium from the 
ruins of Mesa Morasis, on the Rio de los Animos, near its 
mouth. This is the fourth cranium from these cliff structures, 
‘furnishing a good beginning for a comparative study. It is to be 
hoped that this splendid collection, now under the charge of Dr. 
Otis, will be fostered by anthropologists in all parts of our 
country. The Quartermasters Department have orders to trans- 
mit all specimens to Washington, free of charge. 
r. Spofford, of the Congressional Library, is now publishing 
a complete catalogue in one alphabet of everything in the library, 
with titles complete, including the Smithsonian additions, under 
the names of societies. 
In the Magazine of American History for February, Dr. Charles 
Rau publishes the paper on the Dighton Rock Inscription which 
he read before the American Anthropological Society last 
September. 
Mr. E. A. Barber communicates the fact that in the “ Museum of 
the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art,” in the Memorial Hall, 
Philadelphia, isa collection of relics from the Swiss Lake Dwellings. 
We shall be glad to publish the location and special character of 
public and private collections of merit in our country. 
The following works and papers have appeared: Mound Ex- 
plorations in South-eastern Missouri (in Madrid county), by C. 
Crosswell, Trans. of the Acad. of Sciences of St. Louis, Vol. 11, 
No. 4; Antiquity of Caverns and Cavern Life in the Ohio valley, 
by Prof. N.S. Shaler, Boston Soc. of Nat. History; Les Esquimaux 
(based on the presence of a group of them in the Jardin d’Acclima- 
tion de Paris), Révue Scientifique, Jan. 26th; Colored People consid- 
ered scientifically and socially, by D. H. Jacques, Phrenological 
Fournal, Dec.; The Southern Negro as he is, by George R. Stetson 
(A. Williams & Co.); Cuban Antiquities: the Caneys of the 
Dead, by Antonio Bachiller, Magazine of American History, Dec.; 
The Second Conquest of Peru, by C. P. Mackie, Penn Monthly, 
Feb.; Pottery: How it is Made, by George Ward Nichols (G. P. 
Putnam’s Sons); A Hand-book of Ceramic Art, by M. S. Lock- 
wood (id.); Bibliotheca Americana, by Robert Clarke & Co., Cin- 
cinnati. 
| Foreicn.—An interesting course of lectures has been inaugu- 
_ rated in connection with the new museum of ethnography at Paris. 
