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Colonel F. A. Seeley, of the U. S. Patent Office of Washington, 
is interested in the various inventions of time-keeping, and has read 
a paper before the Anthropological Society in Washington on time- 
keeping in Greece and Rome. He is pursuing the subject, and 
invites correspondence and assistance. He proposes to trace the 
existence and development of the notion of time-keeping among 
savage and barbarous races; also the history of time-keeping from 
its dawn down to the middle ages. 
Spurious ĪNDIAN ARROWHEADS.—An enterprising individual 
in the vicinity of Orwigsburg, Pa., has recently put on the market 
well-made arrowheads of curious design, against which it may be 
well to warn collectors. These relics, instead of being made directly 
from flakes, are genuine arrowheads rechipped, thus increasing the 
depth of the notches, sometimes the base of the shaft, and usually 
allowing so much of the lateral edges of the anterior portion of the 
arrowhead as to make it resemble at the point a small lozenge or 
diamond attached to the original base by a stem. One specimen 
which had been broken across was retouched, so as to permit the 
original base to remain, but presented two points, the intervening 
The National Geographic Society has been organized under 
excellent auspices. The Hon. Gardner C. Hub is President, 
and the membership amounts to two hundred. 
Its fourth meeting, held 30th ult., was a symposium of geogra- 
phers, ach scientist was allowed ten minutes in favor of his spe- 
ros ; % a contribution to the formation of a Sa atlas of © 
sical geography. General Greely spoke for the climatic repre- 
Sentation ; Conan Bartlett, foe the den and its shore; Profes- 
sor Ward, for Paleo-Botany ; Dr. Merriam, the distribution of bird- 
life. Mr. Henshaw’s subject was of greater interest to anthropol- 
ogy. He showed the distribution of Indian yon in North 
America at the dawn of its history. He presented a map made at 
the Bureau of Ethnology, the result of eleven years of labor of him- — 
self and Major Powell. This map covers the entire area of North 
