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The Implements of the Trenton Gravels. — Mr. Henry W. 

 Haynes, of Boston, read a paper before the Boston Society of 

 Natural History last January upon the argillite implements found 

 in the gravels of the Delaware river, &c, compared with the 

 palaeolithic implements of Europe. The communication is pub- 

 lished in Vol. xxi of the Proceedings. The author comes to the 

 following conclusions : The objects have come from the gravel 

 beds of the Delaware valley, and only occasionally have they 

 been found upon the surface. They show incontestable marks 

 of human workmanship. The general appearance "of the country 

 is similar to that of the palaeolithic gravels of the Old World. 

 Dr. Abbott has sent us a pamphlet reprint from the Society's 

 Proceedings reviewing the whole subject. 



Antiquities of New Mexico and Arizona. — Dr. W. J. Hoff- 

 man, of the Bureau of Ethnology at Washington, sends us a revised 

 edition of a pamphlet on the above named subject, which first 

 appeared in the Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natu- 

 ral Sciences. The author has had a great deal of experience in the 

 Indian country as a physician, is a man of great tact and address, 

 and has been connected with the government surveys for a long 

 time. We have in the brochure before us an excellent epitome 

 of our knowledge of the Pueblos. The subject of glazed pottery 

 is treated at length and several analyses given.' On the subject 

 of crania and deformations the treatise is especially full and the 

 bibliography invaluable. 



Asiatic Tribes in North America. — From the Proceedings 

 of the Canadian Institute, we are in receipt of a brochure of 38 

 pages from the pen of Professor John Campbell, on the Asiatic 

 Tribes of North America. In this the author indicates the origin 

 of three Indian families: the Tinneh or Athabascans, the Iroquois, 

 and the Choctaws. The Tinneh family are associated with the 

 Tungusians of Siberia and Northern China, and the Iroquois and 

 Choctaws (who with the Cherokeesare simply disguised Iroquois) 

 with the populations of Northeastern Asia, classed by Dr. Latham 

 as Peninsular Mongolidae. With respect to the Tinneh, Professor 

 Campbell, at the close of his argument remarks, " Certainly, no 

 two families representing the Old World and the New present 

 closer affinities in name, vocabulary, grammar, physical appear- 

 ance, dress, arts, manners and customs, than do the Tungus of 

 Asia and the Tinneh of America." 



Under the term Choctaw is included the entire Muscogee fam- 

 ily, together with the Cherokees, the Choctaws representing the 

 Tehuktchi or Tshekts, and the Cherokees the Koriaks or Koraeki. 

 The Tuscaroras of the South are taken as the oldest and purest 

 form of the Wyandot-Iroquois and through them the last named 

 family are brought into relationship with the Choctaw-Cherokee, 

 and by this path with the Koriak in Northeastern Asia. 



