1895,] Scientific News. 779 
before. The cramped inaccessible rift, only large enough for entrance 
on hands and knees, could have been no fit shelter for man, and even 
if animals had chosen it for a den it had no more interest for archæol- 
ogy than the so-called “Indian Cave,” on a mountain top near Hun- 
lock’s Creek, on the right bank of the Susquehanna in Luzerne 
County, Pa. There two spacious caverns were reported, but the man 
who led us over the bramble-covered rocks, haunted by rattlesnakes, 
could only find one. This was a damp, drafty fissure between large, 
loose blocks of sandstone. Perfect specimens of Indian earthenware 
have been found hidden in the crevices of rifts like this, and we hoped 
to have found a hidden pot, but the place was too far from water and too 
difficult of access to have presumably served as a primitive habitation, 
and we were not surprised to find no underground relic of man’s oc- 
cupancy when we dug down into the black mold of its floor. 
A century of weather and original rough usage seems to have played 
such havoc with the pottery of the Pennsylvania Indians that scarcely 
anything is left but small sherds. If it had not been for the habit of 
the white man’s predecessor of placing pots in small caves and rock 
rifts for safe keeping, we should have few earthern specimens left per- 
fect enough to show what the old forms were. Scarce as Indian graves 
are in the east Apalachian region of Pennsylvania those containing 
perfect pots are still scarcer. As a great rarity, the Wilkesbarre His- 
torical Society shows an almost complete pot, found by John Kern in 
an Indian grave on the Susquehanna River at Plymouth, near by, and 
another unearthed on the neighboring Kingston Flats, by Millard P. 
Murray ; but one of their best specimens is that found on a ledge in a 
cave near Tunkhannock, by Asa Dana, in 1858. Mr. A. F. Berlin, of 
Allentown, informs us that another perfect pot was found recently, as 
if hidden by an Indian in precolonial times, on the shelf of a sand- 
stone rift on Indian Mountain, near Kresgyville, Carbon County, Pa., 
by Alfred Keppler.—H. C. MERCER. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Professor Thomas Henry Huxley died at Eastbourne near Lon- 
don, June 30th. Professor Huxley was born in 1825 at Ealing, Mid- 
diesex, England. He was educated at Ealing School, of which his 
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