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694 ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Evrorean FossıL Cetacea.— Prof. J. F. Brandt has published, 
in the memoirs of the Royal Academy of St. Petersburg, an elab- 
orate quarto work on the fossil and ‘sub-fossil Cetacea of Europe. 
It is illustrated with 34 plates. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
RESTORATION or InpIAN Potrery.—The caving of a bank of 
loamy earth on the east side of Connecticut River, about seven 
miles above Hartford, brought to light, several years ago, fragments 
of Indian pottery, which were found by a gentleman then tem- 
porarily residing at East Windsor Hill in that vicinity. They were 
composed of burnt clay intermingled with particles of pounded 
quartz, and as they evidently had a relation to one another, he 
commenced putting them together, using for that purpose slips of 
writing paper, about half an inch wide, and two inches long, coated 
with thick gum-arabic mucilage, and stuck on the inside of the 
pieces opposite the joints. 
When I first saw his work he had reconstructed, from the pieces 
which he had found, about half of a kettle, the rim of which was 
entire, and about ten inches in diameter, and quite elaborately or- 
namented with lines grooved in the clay while it was in a plastic 
state. I was much interested in his work, for though I had fre- 
quently found fragments of that kind of pottery, I had never seen 
pieces of any one utensil sufficient in size or number to indicate 
the forms or dimensions of such ware. I went with him to the 
place of deposit, and we raked and sifted the soil thoroughly , 
and recovered additional fragments, from which we built up with 
the gummed slips, the entire form of the kettle, although there 
were in several places gaps which no shards were found to fil. 
It cost a deal of time and study to locate all the pieces, of which 
there were about seventy-five in number broken (it might a most be 
said) into every shape and size into which crockery could be bro- 
ken. The labor was like that of putting together a dissected map: 
very dissected ; or like that of solving all the figures of @ book of 
Chinese puzzles laid together in one grand design. - 
The gummed slips answered the purpose of their designer ad- 
mirably. Had he interposed between the shards any kind of ie 
ment, that would have prevented strict contiguity, or that woul 
have Set them immovably in their places as they were added o2? 
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