1 882.] Editors' Table. 311 



the same great division ; i. e. buryers of the dead. Their war-like 

 enemies compelled them to live in brush huts, built together in a 

 wooded country in winter, and in the openings in summer; thus 

 the mounds with human remains therein occur in these sections. 



A difference in the kind of dwellings or tools do not of them- 

 selves warrant the conclusion of some writers that each distinctive 

 class was an evidence of tribal or race difference. We might as 

 well consider the makers of pottery a distinct people ; but they 

 were not, for every race of Indian made and used pottery in 

 ancient times, and at the present time, even the warlike Indian, 

 without fixed habitations, has his though of a plainer kind. There 

 are some who think that the kind of pottery argues a different race 

 origin ; this is not so, the different qualities of pottery and forms 

 are designed to suit the different purposes for which they were 

 made, and not for a display of race distinctions. In Mexico and 

 the United States in ancient times, the Indians used the same 

 method of rendering their pottery hard and smooth as is now 

 practiced by the Indians of Mexico to-day. A pebble of agate or 

 jasper is used to rub over the surface of the pottery as soon as the 

 new made article is dry; a fine, hard, smooth surface is the result ; 

 it has been considered a varnish. I saw it in general use ; it is a 

 new fact not known to writers before my visit to Mexico in 1877 

 and 1878. 



In conclusion, I would say that there are two races of Indians 

 to-day, as there were in ancient times, circumstances causing 



EDITORS' TABLE. 



EDITORS : A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE. 



Professor E. DuBois Raymond has recently delivered a 



lecture before the physicians of the German army, on exercise or 

 use, in which he makes some important admissions. We hope to 

 give an abstract of the lecture, but content ourselves, at present, 

 with the following extracts : " We should be, therefore, free to 

 admit, with some appearance of reason, that the vigor of the 

 muscles of wings and of digging feet; the thick epidermis of the 

 palm of the hand and of the sole of the foot ; the callosities of 

 the tail and of the ischia of some monkeys; the processes of 



