828 The American Naturalist. [September, 
It is possible to compute the age of this interment within somewhat 
wide limits. Articles of European manufacture had not become com- 
mon among the Senecas of this region till within quite a short time of 
De Nonville’s expedition. On the other hand, the history of Victor goes 
back about a hundred years, so that it is practically certain that this 
grave is not earlier than 1650 nor later than 1800. So far as could 
be judged by the appearance of the bones—by comparison with others. 
in which some idea of the age of interment may be formed—and by 
the state of preservation of the relics, the remains date back of English 
influence and come within the period of French influence, somewhere 
about the close of the seventeenth century. 
The grave referred to as opened at the site of the village of Gana- 
garū, was described in the Naruraxist several years ago. The skele- 
ton was that of a young person, the wisdom-teeth not having been fully 
developed and the bones being immature, though nearly of adult size. 
The body had been put or had been left in the “mummy attitude,” 
with elbows and knees bent at the sides of the trunk. Strangely 
enough, the remains were found head downward. With this skeleton 
rested that of a turtle—perhaps indicating the clan of the deceased— 
thirty feet of French glass beads, ninety feet of wampum, a brass ket- 
tle, a bone head-comb, showing in silhouette, the figures of a man on 
horseback and of another person standing behind him, and other orna. 
ments. These would seem to indicate that the person was a woman, 
and doubtless a young lady of distinction, from the wealth buried with 
her. 
Other burials in the same vicinity have shown somewhat similar 
relics, and belong to the period when the wares of the French traders 
were mingled with the weapons and implements of the Stone Age. 
A. L. BENEDICT. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Mr. J. E. S. Moore has an interesting sketch of some of the faunal 
features of Lake Tanganyika in Nature of July 1. He concludes “ that 
the fauna of Tanganyika is comparatively old, for it is unlike anything 
now inhabiting the sea, and if it is derived form a previous freshwater 
stock, much time would be required for the evolution of its widely 
divergent present forms.” : 
The natural history building of the University of Illinois, dedicated 
a few years ago, was struck by lightning on June 17 and partially de- 
