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GaTscHET’s “ A MIGRATION LEGEND OF THE CREEK INDIANS.” 
—This publication brings forward some scientific results obtained 
while studying the language and ethnology of the Creeks and 
their congeners. It commences with an account of the southern 
families of Indians, and concludes with the Kasi’hta migration 
legend. The settlements of the Creeks, their government, war 
customs, initiation and other ceremonies, history and dialect are 
describe 
RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, 
ii iay von—Ueber einige enine a an fossilen Crinoiden. Abd. der “ Palæ- 
ontographica,’”’ 1885. From the a 
ewberry, F. S.—The ero TN Peg jo ice. Rep. from School of Mines Quar- 
terly, 1885. From the a 
Scudder, S H.—The earliest say insects of America, 1885. 
——Palzodictyoptera, or the affinities and classification of Palæozoic Hexapoda, 
arpa Alon, 1 insects a a palzontological po ara Şi view. The last two from Mem 
t. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1885. All from the author. 
tage —An account it the Eeu, i oly in the year 1883. From Smith- 
sonian report, 1883. From the a 
sigh as —Comstock mining and miners. U, S. Veer Surv., 1883. From the 
Wi i D a ldunggeschichte und arag song ei unite des Eies von Nepia cinerea 
und Notonecta glauca L. 1885. Fro 
Pr H. M.—Notes on the structure of ear Aa: Corallium and 
1882, 
Tubipora. 
——On the ee of an unknown Holothurian of the family Dendrochirote. phe 
——On the presence of eyes in the shells of certain Chitonide. 1 A 
the Oiarterty. youstial of Micecasupicel Science and from the author. 
us. D’ Hist. Nat.—Rapports Annuels de MM. les professeurs et chefs de service. 
is, 1882. 
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Fordice, M. ME d Eigenman, C. H—A review of the American Eleotridinz. 
Ext. P Gs Sci. Phil., rade oe the authors 
Brinton, D. se —tThe lineal measures of the ba nations of Mexico and 
Ce pg America, 1885. From the author 
Lyman, B. S.—A review of the Atlas of the westen middle aT anthra- 
cite field. Rep. Ming. Herald, Dec., 1884. m the author 
pippan . W.—Variations in the form of the tes that take piace during its 
wth i in the short-tailed albatross. From the Auk, 1885. 
The osteology of 4 calva. Ext. Ann, Rep, Comm, Fish and Fisheries, 
1885. Both from ie arith, 
Holbrook, M. L.—The termination of the nerves in the liver. 
——tThe structure of the muscles of the lobster. Both from the Rep. Proc. Amer. 
Soc. Mi hor. l 
Lupton, N. T.—Meteoric iron from Coahuila, Mexico. Ext, Amer. Journ. of Sci- 
ence, Vol. xxix, March, 1885. From the author 
Smith, Miss R.—Notes on fishes oe at San Cristobal, Lower So oe ie 
Mr. Chas. H. Townsend. Ext. ~ U, S. Na Mus., 1884. 
author. 
Fritsch, A. Paia der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permformation Böhmens. 
Band it, Heft. Prag, 1 
——Ueber der Auffindung eines Mchschenechtdels 3 im diluvialen Lehm von Stre- 
bichovic bei Schlan. Both from the author. 
14 Migration d of e Creek Indians, By ALBERT S. GATSCHET. Vol.1. 
Philadelphia, D. G. Brinton, 1884. 
