1881, ] Anthropology. : 333 
GERMAN ANTHROPOLOGY.—The third of the series of bibliogra- 
phical lists, in the Archiv fiir Anthropologie is a quarto brochure 
of 136 pages, by Frederick Ratzel upon ethnography and travels 
(Volkerkunde und Reisen), covering a period from July, 1878, to 
December, 1879. Dr. Emil Schmidt, of Essen, in. Rhenish 
Prussia, is the editor of the Archiv in charge of matters relating to 
our country, The readers of the Naturawist who have publish- 
ed papers on anthropology would do well to send a copy of eac 
to Dr. Schmidt. 
THE TRENTON GRAVELS AND Earty Man.—Mr. Henry Carville 
Lewis sends us a pamphlet reprint from the Proceedings of the 
Acad. of Nat. Sciences of Philad., entitled “ The Trenton Gravel 
and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man.” After going over the 
ground carefully asa geologist, the author comes to the following 
conclusions: Pe. 
1. That the Trenton gravel, the only gravel in which imple- 
ments occur, is a true river deposit of post-glacial age, and the 
most recent of the gravels in the Delaware valley. 
2. That the paleoliths found in it really belong to and are a 
part of the gravel, and that they indicate the existence of man in 
a rude state at a time when the flooded river flowed on top of 
this gravel. . 
3. That the data obtained do not necessarily prove, geologically 
considered, an extreme antiquity of man in Eastern America. 
Mica Veins.—Mr. W. C. Kerr, State Geologist, Raleigh, North 
Carolina, read a paper before the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers, at the New York meeting, February, 1881, on the 
‘ aboriginal art and their ethnological value. By Col. Charles Whittlesey. 
Ancient quartz workers. By Miss -Frances E. Babbitt. 
Rabbit and the Grasshopper: an Otoe myth. By Rev. 
On the alabaster quarries and flint-works found in Wyandott 
ovey. 
Aboriginal use of co er in war and in peace. Prof, J. D. Butler. _ : 
Correspondence. — ‘Phe Chemakum Liccuaee. Rock-made Effigies. A gaia 
Prehistoric relic. Mounds in Kansas, Another nest of arrow-flints. Ston 
., Mage found in gravel. Indian village sites. ; 
Editorial Notes.—Gleanings from Magazines.—Book Reviews. 
. O. Dorsey. 
J cave. By Rev. H. Gi 
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