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Wiggins, near Chulu, Amelia County, Va. He not only suc- 
ceeded in finding the localities where the ancient workmen had 
operated, but discovered in the neighborhood the quartz bed 
where they had obtained their implements for working the pot- 
stone. Mr. Cushing, to test their method, — a quartz 
pick and detached with it a mass of steatite. made an accu- 
rate survey of the quarry and has reproduced in sister a Miniature 
model of it similar to the plaster representations of the cliff dwell- 
ings prepared by Mr. Jackson, of the Hayden Survey. A large 
number of pots, in mauls, tomahawks, &c., were also secured 
for the National m. 
Mr. Edwin A. ka, of West Chester, Pa., is collecting mate- 
rials for a work upon pipes and smoking customs in all ages and 
nations. In order to make his work exhaustive he desires to know 
of every article ever written upon that subject. e also wishes 
sketches, photographs, cuts, electrotypes of aboriginal pipes, an- 
cient and modern. Chewing and snuffing will come in for their 
share in the description. Inasmuch as we cannot get together often 
in our country, owing to the great distances, and talk over those 
matters which are interesting to all, the next best phe is to make 
the NATURALIST our medium of communication. shall be 
glad to publish the name of any anthropologist hos is working 
in a special field. 
Dr. Theodor Poesche, of Washington, has published through 
Costenoble of Jena, a volume of 240 pages, entitled “ Die Arier, 
Ein Beitrag zur Historischen Anthropologie.” The author has 
collected a great deal of evidence to show that the theory of the 
ndian origin of the Arian races is untenable. The relationships 
existing between the various European races of that stock is 
traced and the author is inclined to believe them to be autoch- 
thonous so far as we know anything about them. 
Part second of the Revue d’ Anthropologie opens with a learned 
paper from the pen of Dr. Broca, upon cerebral nomenclature, 
including the names of the divisions and ar ae ot of the 
hemispheres as well as their anfractuosities. Those us who 
grew up in the notion that the human brain was a mass of con- 
volutions, having no more order than the viscera ora dish of 
maccaroni, will be pleased to see what progress has been made in 
the investigations originated by Gratiolet, and since prosecuted 
by eminent anatomists, among whom M. Broca occupies a high 
rank. The object of this study is to localize and name the parts 
of the brain so that cerebral topography may become a useful 
part of anthropological study. The Revue always contains a large 
amount of useful matter edited by the most distinguished men in | 
France under the titles: Revue Critique, Revue Préhistorique, 
Revue des Livres, Revue des Journaux, Extraits et Analyses, and © 
‘Miscellanea. The Bulletin Bibliographique, a very valuable fea- 
Dur 
=~ ture, is conducted by M. 
