1024 The American Naturalist. [November, 
145 hammer stones, 4 fire sites, and 6 large blocks pecked upon their 
sides to split with the grain. 
The method of quarrying, probably without digging implements, 
and of fracturing the loose masses without fire, has been studied, while 
many conditions bearing on the relation of the place to the neighbor- 
ing river beaches, other possible quarries and the Indian village site at 
Lower Black’s Eddy remain to be examined. 
As yet no positive relic of the modern Indian (unless we except 3 
hammer stones with pecked sides) has been found, though nothing 
suggests the labor of a race more ancient, nor intimates that the chip- 
ped forms, which have not yet been compared with the Trenton speci- 
mens, were finished implements. 
The International Congress of Pre-Historic Archeology 
and Anthropology held its Eleventh session at Moscow Russia, 
August, 22-30, 1892. 
The papers read were as follows: 
GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY IN THEIR RELATION TO PRIMITIVE 
Max.—On the composition of the quaternary deposits of Russia and 
their relation to the works resulting from the activity of prehistoric 
man, S. Nikitine.——A. review of the post tertiary deposits in connec- 
tion with the finding of traces of prehistorie culture in the north and 
east of European Russia, Th. T. schernyshev. Remarks on the cav- 
erns of Oural, O. Clere. On the remains of a paleolithic epoch in 
the neighborhood of Krasnoiarsk gouv. de Ienisséisk, Siberia. J. 
Savenkov. The Russian steppes, ancient and modern, W. Dokont- 
chaiev. On the remains of Ursus speleus and of a fossil Ovibos 
found in Russia, D. Anoutchine. 
PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY (except Kourg d Goroditchtschés) 
——A comparison of the primitive industries of France and Asia, 
G. Chauvet.——The latest conclusions concerning prehistoric arche- 
ology in Bohemia and its relations with eastern Europe, Lübor 
Niederle——A study of the barbarian sculptures belonging to the 
Visigoth epoch in middle France, C. Barriere—Flavy—¥ On nephrite, 
Count Cassini.t—On the questionable objects of nephrite found in 
the Oural O. Clerc. Marks of gnawings on paleolithic and 
neolithic bones, Prince Poutjatine.—- The paleolithic epoch in the 
neighborhood of Novgorod, B. Pèrèdolsky. 
KOURGANES AND GOR G f bones in 
northern Russia, A. Spitzine——Deposits of stone implements in the 
district of Jarausk, gouv. de Viatka, P. Krotov.——The * Jalnik " of 
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