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lications in ethnology and archaeology, the contents of Vol. XXII, 

 Contributions to knowledge, and the archaeology of the West 

 Indies. On page 56 Professor Baird makes the following announce- 

 ment, which will be welcome to many of our older anthropolo- 

 gists : " Among the collections which will form part of the ob- 

 jects in the National Museum, a very interesting and instructive 

 exhibit will consist of the Indian portraits and scenes painted by 

 the late George Catlin. These pictures were presented to the 

 institution in 1879 by Mrs. Harrison, of Philadelphia." On page 

 62 will be found an account of the relations of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology to the Smithsonian Institution. The destination of 

 Dr. Berendt's papers on Guatemala is given on page 69. The 

 list of contributors given on pages 1 10-135 contains the names 

 of many who have added to the anthropological collections. 

 With the present number a more systematic scheme of summa- 

 ries in different sciences is begun. The paper upon the progress 

 of anthropology is by the editor of these notes in the Natural- 

 ist, pages 391-448. 



Colonel Stevenson's Collections from the Pueblos. — The 

 readers of the Naturalist are not unfamiliar with the very ex- 

 tensive collections which Colonel James Stevenson, of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology, has been making during the past three years in 

 the Pueblo country. There is now passing through the govern- 

 ment press an illustrated descriptive catalogue of these objects. 

 Part 1, nearly ready, contains the enumeration of 2858 specimens 

 of pottery, implements of war and hunting, articles used in 

 domestic manufacture, clothing and personal ornament, basketry, 

 horse trappings, images, toys, stone tools, musical implements, 

 those for gambling and religious ceremonies, fabrics, foods, paints, 

 pigments, medicines, dye-stuffs, &c. By far the best part of the 

 collection is the pottery, which Mr. Stevenson divides into six 

 classes: 1. The red or uncolored ; 2. The brown ware; 3. The 

 black ware ; 4. The cream white decorated in colors ; 5. Red 

 ware decorated; 6. The ancient pottery. There are 350 illustra- 

 tions to the report, nine plates of colored lithographs by Julius 

 Bien, the remaining figures being woodcuts. Mr. Stevenson's 

 catalogue is much more than a mere printed list. The descriptive 

 text contains the observations of a man singularly gifted in win- 

 ning the confidence of the savages, who allowed him to witness 

 all the operations of their quaint industries, and to collect the 

 materials and imp] m< nts foi all -t igt s of their barbaric art. The 

 best informed technologist will find something to awaken fresh 

 thought on every page of Col. Stevenson's narrative. The most 

 important part of the material was gathered at Zuni, but valuable 

 specimens are also enumerated from Wolpi, Laguna, Acoma, 

 Cochiti, Santo Domingo, Tesuque, Santa Clara, San Juan, Jenez, 

 Old Pecos, the Canon de Chelley, the Jicarillas and from miscel- 

 laneous sources. Part 11, now in course of preparation, will enter 



