378 General Notes. 
prehistoric, Philippe Salmon; Ethnography and Craniology, 
Manouvrier; Sociology, Letourneau; Linguistic, Abel Hove- 
lacque ; Folk-lore, Paul Sébillot; Mythology, Girard de Rialle ; 
Geography medical, Bordier; Demography, Mondiére ; Philoso- 
phy, André Lefévre. 
The cause of cessation of the journal is not from failure of any 
kind, but from greater devotion to science. These gentlemen, indi- 
vidually and collectively, are the founders and organizers of the 
Bibliothique des Sciences Contemporaines, of the Dictionaire des Sei- 
ences Anthropologiques, and of the Bibliothique Anthropologique, and 
they have decided to suspend, the journal that they may devote 
their entire time to the two libraries and the dictionary. 
he Prehistoric Anthropologists of the United States send their 
wishes of fraternal good fellowship. 
The enquiry started by the Smithsonian Institution in regard to 
the existence and geographic distribution of the so-called “rude 
and unfinished implements of the paleolithic type,” is one of high 
importance in the study of American Prehistoric Anthropology- 
Responses have been received from thirty States and Territories, 
the implements already noted amount to between six and seven 
thousand, and their distribution extends nearly all over the United 
States. Several hundred implements have been sent to the Institu- 
tion, some of which do not belong to any paleolithic age, but many 
of them do. None seem to have been found in the mounds. 
The implements themselves are of no merchantable value. The 
Institution desires them principally for verification, to see that they 
are really paleolithic implements, and not the leaf-shaped spear and 
arrow heads so common; also to know their geographic distribu- 
tion. It wishes to know, approximately, how many have been 
found within a given district or State, if there has been anything 
peculiar in their finding, position or locality, especially with refer- 
ence to river gravel drift. 
e present examination is tentative and does not attempt to deal 
with the antiquity of this paleolithic age, but only to discover if 
there was such an age in America, and, if so, whether i had 
any extended existence. The attention of the average relic collector 
has never been called to this sort of specimen, and they have not 
usually been gathered. It will be something gained for science, 
to know how these implements are distributed over the Unit 
States, and especially their relationship to the glacial moraines. 
