1138 : General Notes. 
jos. This is a comparatively new field for anthropological research, 
and Dr. Matthews has been the principal husbandman. His paper 
is deserving of high encomium. It is beautifully illustrated, and 
shows the author to be as equally successful as a poet and historian, 
as he has been in anthropology and medicine. 
Rey. Clay MacCauley devotes fifty pages to the Seminole Indians 
of Florida. He describes their personal characteristics, physique, 
costumes, and personal adornment; their society and tri 
life, their industries, arts, and religion, and makes a valuable 
contribution. 
Colonel James R. Stevenson might have been well denominated 
the soul ol the Bureau of Ethnology. He was the discoverer of its 
protoplasm, and was its Executive officer during the greater part of 
its existence, until his death in August, 1888, at the Gilsey House, 
New York City. This is no place for panegyric upon his abilities. 
Whatever of honor and credit, history shall mete out to him for 
his anthropologic researches among the Zunis and other Indians of 
the interior and western United States, must be fairly divided with 
his wife. She accompanied him in all, or nearly all, his explora- 
tions, and her zeal, ability, faithfulness and address in procuring 
the more difficult secret information concerning the inner life of 
Indians and Indian women, of their mythology, of their religious 
societies, of the ceremonies by which they were carried on, can never 
be fully portrayed or thoroughly understood. His contribution to 
e present volume is the “Religious Life of the Zuñi Child. 
Her paper is illustrated by four full-page chromo-lithographi¢ 
plates, illustrative of the masks, dresses, and other objects used in 
the ceremonies which she describes. 
SOME SUPERSTITIONS OF THE BAHAMA NEGROES.—Some years 
ago, while in the employment of the Bahamas Government, I spent 
a month in exploring the island, or rather islands, of Andros, m 
the west of the Bahama archipelago. The negroes of the northern 
part of Andros are physically the finest in the colony, and are also 
superior in other ways, in spite of their bad repute in Nassau. {t 
is said that during the Indian wars in Florida numbers of Indians 
= made Andros their temporary home, but they appear to have mixed 
_ very little with the negroes. One old man, however, who was my 
host during my stay in the island, says that his grandfather was an 
Indian, and his appearance bears out the statement to some extent, 
his color being of a reddish brown, his features Indian in their cast, 
and his hair not woolly but in long curls. : 
The settlements in Andros are all along the East coast, the inte- 
rior being a great swamp, with occasional ponds, and island-lik 
prb of coral-rock, covered with pines, scattered throughout it. 
I found that many of the negroes curious superstitions 
oe respecting the interior, which they rarely visited. One ony : 
