760 The American Naturalist. [August, 
Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau, where a distinguished observer, 
writing under the sanction of his chief, alludes to the manner of Black 
Hawk's burial, and brings that forth as a proof that Indians built 
mounds within the historic period.” 
Prince Poutjatine presented an interesting paper accompanied i 
specimen illustrations of imprints of textile fabries on Russian prehis- 
torie pottery, and he brought for comparison, a collection of stamps 
and imprints similar in decoration and manufacture on prehistoric 
pottery of the United States of America prepared by Mr. Wilson of 
Washington, from the United States National Museum. The speci- 
men presented by Prince Poutjatine were the result of excavations 
made by himself on his own property at Bolgoje, in the Province of 
Novgorod, midway between Moscow and St. Petersburgh. The simi- 
larity between these two sets of specimens from nearly opposite sides of 
the globe was truly remarkable. Pottery with these imprints of tex- 
tile fabrics have been found in other parts of Russia—the Provinces 
of Wladimir and Laroslaw—as is noted in the work of the late Count 
Ouvaraw in the “Age de pierre en Russia.” Prince Poutjatine 
argued that these facts were evidences of communication between 
Russia and Siberia with America across the Straits of Bering. To 
this opinion, however, Mr. Wilson did not agree, because the pottery 
of the United States thus decorated was not found in that part of the 
United States approaching Bering Strait. 
M. Marcel Daly read an Essay at the Chronologic Classification of 
Monuments of Prehistoric America, but he presented it as nothing 
more than a working hypothesis, recommended to investigators for the 
determination of the truth. 
Other papers upon American Archeology were those on Frescos on 
the Ancient Palace of Mitla, by Dr. Ed. Seler ; Archeological Studies 
in Salvador by Capt. Montessus de Ballore; and Petroglyphs on the 
Isthmus of Panama and Central America and the Antilles by M. Pin- 
He concludes that the art of making petroglyphs was most 
art 
highly developed in the Antilles especially in Porto Rico, but never- 
theless in the Islands of Granada, Guadeloupe, St. Christopher and 
St. John. He attributes this higher art to that race of prehistoric 
people who preceded the conquering Caribs. In Cuba, the petrogly- 
phs are rare, and they are not to be found in Jamaica. The ruins of. 
'ialuanaco were explained by M. T. Ber, who presented a photograph 
of these ruins, which he alleged to be the first ever taken. Interesting 
among them were huge blocks of stone 20 and more feet long in pro- 
 eess of being sawed. The quarry whence they came was well known, 
