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names in all their forms, both autonymous and heteronymous, 
their linguistic affinities, the original location and the migrations, 
the etymology of the names, and the chief authorities. Judge 
Henderson, of Winchester, Il., read a paper before the American 
Association at St. Louis on the same subject. The notes are by 
Prof. E. A. Barber 
In noticing the Eleventh Annual Report of the Peabody 
Museum in the November number of the NATURALIST, sufficient 
emphasis was not given to the fact that Prof. Putnam claims to 
have discovered in the earthwork on the Lindsley estate, a map 
of which accompanies his paper, the vestiges of an ancient set- 
tlement. The work was a fortified camp, the large mound the 
site of some large edifice, the small circular banks “the vestiges of 
are and the see mounds the oe of the dead. 
t gives us great pleasure to record that the paper of Col. 
Garrick Mallery, read before the Nashville ene of the Ameri- 
can Association is attracting the attention which it deserves. 
The author was detailed, some two years ago, to work upon 
Indian matters in the office of Major J. W. Powell, geologist in 
charge of the U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the 
Rocky Mountain region. His previous training in literary mat- 
led him to the conclusion that the former population had been 
greatly overestimated. Favorable notice has been taken of Col. 
Mallery’s work inthe British Association and in the Royal Society 
of London. Indeed, the question was seriously raised whether 
the conduct of the government in controlling its aboriginal popu- 
lation had not been too much influenced by the “ melting away ” 
doctrine. 
The Rev. M. Eells has published at Portland, Oregon, a small 
book of hymns in the Chenook jargon language. It cannot be 
too strongly impressed upon those who have the opportunity that 
we cannot have too much of this linguistic material. 
Jefferson in his “ Notes on Virginia,” p. 193, wrote: “ It is to Be 
lamented then, very much to be lamented, that we have suffered 
so many of the Indian tribes already to extinguish, without our 
having previously collected and deposited in the records of liter- 
ature the general rudiments at least of the languages they 
spoke.” : 
In the October number of the American Journal of Science and 
Arts, Mr. W. J. McGee has a paper on the Artificial Mounds of 
unit of measure in their erection. The author’s profession has 
furnished him with abundant opportunities of measuring mounds, 
and he seems to have made good use of them. It was long ago 
supposed that a common standard had been employed by those 
who erected the earthworks of Ohio. 
