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phlets of the Western Reserve & No, Ohio Hist. Soc., containing 
the Indian narrative of Judge Hugh Welch, and Wyandotte mis- 
sions in 1806 and 1857, both edited by Mr. C. C. Baldwin. The for- 
mer is a letter to General Garfield onthe subject of Indian education, 
which takes a rather gloomy view of the subject. Of the latter, 
as well as of all the publications of this society, we take great 
pleasure in saying that the permanent records of an association 
can be valuable in the highest degree without being in the least 
costly or pretentious. 
THE Census oF ALASKA.—The Mew York Herald for January 
Io and II, gives a detailed account of the exploration of the 
Alaskan peninsula for the purpose of enumerating the population, 
and of studying the habits of the natives. No one better fitted for 
this service could have been found than Mr. Petroff, who adds to 
his thorough knowledge of the Russian and English, a practical 
acquaintance with ethnology, acquired while assisting Mr. Ban- 
croft in the preparation of his great work on-the native races of 
the Pacific States. Mr. Petroff will prepare an elaborate paper 
on Alaska for the next census and will contribute a memoir to 
the volumes of the Ethnological Bureau. 
THe Davenport Acapemy, Iowa.— The Davenport Daily 
Gazette for January 6, 1881, contains the record of the annual 
meeting of this thriving society. The retiring president, Mr. 
Pratt, devoted the annual address to the discussion of the mound- 
builders. Mr. J. Duncan Putnam was elected president for the 
ensuing year, and Dr. C. C. Parry, corresponding secretary. 
Notice is given that the printing of volume 11 will be resumed 
at once. 
GEOLOGY AND PALAONTOLOGY 
APPARENT GLACIAL Deposits 1N VALLEY Drirr.—While col- 
lecting facts regarding the question whether there was in Maine 
a re-advance of the glacier subsequent to the deposition of the 
sedimentary Champlain clays and valley drift, the writer observed 
certain large boulders lying on or in the valley drift which 
seemed too large to have been deposited by any of the ordinary 
forces of valley transportation. Sometimes numbers of boulders 
were found in pell-mell masses quite morainal in appearance, and 
I was for a time inclined to regard them as glacial. The smaller 
stones and boulders might readily be supposed to have been car- 
ried down in spring by floating blocks of ice, but the largest of 
them staggered me, until one day I found a boulder weighing not 
far from one hundred tons lying on the undisturbed silt of the 
present flood plain of the Piscataquis river. Its history was as 
follows: Ever since the first settlement of the country that rock 
had stood right in mid-channel, a constant object of apprehension 
and vituperation to the lumbermen, for many were the “jams” of 
logs which it had caused, some of them of large size. But nothing 
