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and plainly marked sutures, the skull of a child. The base of 
the skull has been roughly cut away and scraped smooth, leaving 
an irregular margin or rim to the vessel. Both the inner and 
outer surface has been scraped with some rough-edged tool, 
€aving numerous scratches. Two holes were drilled through 
the side, near the upper part of the cup, for the purpose of mend- 
ing a crack by tying the fractured parts together. A portion of 
the frontal bone was accidentally broken away by a stroke of the 
spade. This curious relic of barbarism is now in the collection 
of the writer, as is also the well-preserved skull with which it 
was found, Along the gully before mentioned, and within a few 
eet of these remains, were found parts of three other skeletons. 
It may be added that the place where they were found, has, for 
Many years, been known to be an aboriginal cemetery. 
he situation is on the highest terrace formation, about one 
hundred feet above and immediately overlooking the Whitewater. 
The soil is compact clay about two feet thick, overlying clean, 
white sand, in which the bones were found.—Zdgar R. Quick in 
Four. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. 
ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE AMERICAN Association.—Although 
the dread of a terribly hot wave deterred many of the older 
members from going to Cincinnati, the meeting was very largely 
attended. The department of anthropology, inspired by the 
€nvironment, drifted into archeology. It is to be hoped that the 
hext meeting will witness a greater diversity of subjects. All the 
Papers read are given below, with the name and address of the 
author, so that the readers of the NaTuRALIst may, if desired, 
Put themselves in correspondence with them: 
Mason, Otis T. (Washington, D. C.) — The uncivilized mind in the presence of 
higher phases of civilization. 
Horatio Hale—A lawgiver of the Stone age. 
PRs a ri 
McAdams, Wm. (Otterville, Ill.)—The stone images and idols of the mound- 
builders, 
~———Some remarkable relics from the mounds in Illinois. 
Pall, Wm. H. (Washington, D. C.)—On the inhabitants of N. E. Siberia, commonly 
called Chukchis and Namollo. 
Henderson, Hon. J. G. (Winchester, Ill.) —Houses of the ancient inhabitants of the 
Mississippi valley. 
“—>—Was the antelope hunted by the Indians on the prairies of Illinois ? 
——— Mex cassina, the black drink of the Southern Indians. 
———Agriculture and agricultural implements of the ancient inhabitants of the 
Mississippi valley, 
Smith, Mrs. Erminnie A. (Jersey City, N. J.) —Comparative differences in the Iro- 
q4Ols group of dialects. ey 
