212 General Notes. [February, 
jaw, which was found by Dr. C. C. Abbott in place in the gravel, 
fourteen feet from the surface, at the railroad cut near the station 
at Trenton, New Jersey. It will be remembered that in this same 
gravel deposit Dr. Abbott has found numerous rudely made im- 
plements of stone, and that in 1882 he found a human tooth, 
about twelve feet from the surface, not far from the spot where, 
as he states, the fragment of ,jaw was discovered on April 18, 
1884. Both the tooth and þiece of jaw are in the Peabody 
Museum, and they are much worn as if by attrition in the gravel, 
That they are as old as the gravel deposit itself there seems to 
be no doubt, whatever age geologists may assign to it, and they 
were apparently deposited under the same conditions as the mas- 
todon tusk which was found several years since not far from 
where the human remains were discovered. While there is no 
doubt as to the human origin of the chipped stone implements 
which have been found in the Trenton gravel, a discovery to 
which archzology is indebted to Dr, Abbott, the fortunate finding 
of these fragments of the human skeleton add to the evidence 
which Dr. Abbott has obtained in relation to the existence of man 
previous to the formation of the great Trenton gravel deposit.| 
The discoveries announced in Professor Putnam’s note are of 
the utmost importance, and they could not have fallen into more 
cautious hands. There is no doubt that Dr. Flint is an enthusiast 
on the antiquity of man in Central America. In a recent volume 
of the Smithsonian Annual Report, he is said to have found a 
cave that had been filled, after its formation, by tertiary sand- 
stone. Now, on the removal of a portion of this sandstone, 
carvings, rock inscriptions were found on the walls of the cave, 
showing that man had arrived at the stage of rock carving in 
Central America before the deposits of tertiary sandstone. It is 
a pity that this cave cannot be visited by Professor Putnam. 
_ Dr. Abbott’s discovery, on the other hand, is simply in a line 
with his other finds. If man’s works exist in the Trenton gravels, 
there is no improbability that man’s remains will be found there. 
Wisely has Dr. Abbott yielded his own geological notions con- 
cerning his finds to the judgment of those who have studied 
systematically the Delaware basin. 
ITINERANT ANTHROPOLOGY.—A new event in the history of 
anthropology in our country is the decision of Professor Baird 
to participate in the great State fairs. and notably in the cotton 
exposition at New Orleans. A system of glass knock-down 
cases has been devised, so that the objects may be mounted in 
the museum and shipped safely. On arriving at their destination 
the cases can be set up by two or three workmen in a day or two. 
The recent appropriation of Congress for the New Orleans ex- 
hibit was so amended as to include Cincinnati and Louisville. 
The brief space allowed for preparation necessarily made the 
