332 General Notes. [April, 



The Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical So- 

 ciety. — Tracts 54 and 55 contain the report of the thirteenth annual 

 meeting, and the address of the venerable president, Col. Charles 

 Whittlesey. The address, although seemingly without connection 

 with ethnology, is after all a very interesting piece of work. Indeed, 

 Col. Whittlesey makes the State of Ohio the arena for the drama of 

 five distinct populations : 1. The Symmes purchase, with Cincin- 

 nati as a center, settled by the Swedes and Dutch of New Jersey; 

 2. The Virginia military district, with Cmlicothe as its metropolis, 

 settled by Virginians ; 3. The Ohio Company, around Marietta, 

 recruited from Massachusetts; 4. The seven ranges of townships 

 next to Pennsylvania, populated from that State ; 5. The Western 

 Reserve, about Cleveland, designed to be called New Connecticut, 

 because settled from that State. Alluding to the five most promi- 

 nent men at the inauguration of the late President (the Shermans, 

 ^Waite, Hayes and Garfield), the speaker said : " Was it not the 

 result of a long train of agencies which by force of natural selec- 

 tion brought them to the front on that occasion? " 



Antiquities of Anderson township, Hamilton county, 

 Ohio. — The archaeologists of the American Association, who 

 visited the Madisonville cemetery last summer, will not soon for- 

 get the small, delicate, enthusiastic and modest gentleman who 

 contributed so largely to their happiness. The editor of these 

 notes spent one entire day with him, in company with Mr. C. F. 

 Low, visiting the mounds and earthworks of Anderson township. 

 We suspected at that time something was brewing, and was not 

 surprised to receive a few days ago, " The Prehistoric Monuments 

 of Anderson township, Hamilton county, Ohio," by Charles L. 

 Metz, M.D. [From the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of 

 Natural History, Vol. iv, December, 1881.] The description is 

 a pamphlet of twelve pages, prefaced by a map, in which the 

 Smithsonian symbols are used. For this and for all his self-deny- 

 Linqualified praise of archaeolo- 



The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain. — The 

 August and the November numbers appear in the same binding, 

 and contain the following papers : 



1. Foote, J.— Note on Carib chisels. 



2. Lewis, A. L.— Notes on two stone circles in Shropshire. 

 "" -Surgery a lithic times. 



he north-east Irontiei of India. Parti. 



-, W. H.— On a collection of monumental heads and artificially de 



