490 General Notes. [June, 
and is owned by Mr, J. A. Lawyer of this city. Arrow-heads, 
stone-axes, scrapers, knives, bone awls, charred corn, etc., found 
west and south, are dug up from the graves of these people, or 
a j 
strew the sites of their homes.—David S. Marvin. 
Tue AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN.—The number for January of this 
useful Journal makes the following contributions to anthropol- 
ogy:—The military architecture of the emblematic Mound- 
builders, by the Rev. S. D. Peet; Oregon and her Prehistoric 
relics; Lookout mounds in Ohio; Earthworks on the Mis- 
souri river; The ancient pottery makers; Wisconsin copper 
finds and lake dwellings; The rapid formation of rock strata 
in Oregon; Wild rice; Nest of flint relics ; The Mound-builders 
in Minnesota; Indian relics in a mound; Ancient man in Mis- 
souri; Relics of the Mound-builders near Joliet Ill.; Gold orna- 
ments in Tehuantepec; Aleutian mummies. 
GERMAN ANTHROPOLOGY.—Onur readers will remember that there 
enth annual meeting of the German Anthropological Society: 
Under the direction of Dr. A. Voss, of Berlin, an illustrated cata- 
logue and supplement have been published, 619 and 48 page 
In these volumes are brought together not only descriptions of the 
objects exhibited but catalogues of books and lists of localities 
which makes them really a complete hand-book of German alr 
thropology. ‘ 
AnTHropotocy IN Great Britain.—The Journal of the ee 
thropological Institute is coming more and more to reflect the 
labors of British anthropologists. In the number for November, 
1880, No. 11, Vol. x, the original matter is supplemented by t" 
pages of miscellanea, The original papers are as follows: 
Notes on Fijian Burial Customs. By the Rev. Lorimer Fison. 
The Ethnology of Germany. Part v. The Jutes and Fomorians. 
owor 
Observations upon the methods and processes of Anthropometry. By 
By C. Pfoundes: 
TURALIST 
Dr. Paul 
opinard, 
The Japanese People: their origin and the race as it now exists. 
ent ages, to learn the law of the rélative growth of parts; 
races, so as to distinguish them; 3, in all environments, eis 
to ascertain their influence on variation. As the few skeleton 
our museums are insufficient to obtain a just average, 4 
efforts should tend to perfect the methods of operating 0” 
