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tains that language is almost our only clue to the kinship of 
American tribes; it discovers the motives of the customs, laws, 
social life, superstitions and religions of the savages ; it discloses 
the development of his arts ; it mirrors the re?ations of the sexes ; 
it discloses the Indian’s psychology ; it is the handmaid of historic 
study. Dr. Brinton closes his address with an earnest appeal for 
the endowment of research in this direction. 
Silex Tertiaires intentionellement Taillés, by G. de Mortillet, 
L’ Homme, Paris, Mai, 1885, pp. 289-299, June, 252-262. Two 
propositions are insisted on in this paper, to wit: The flints of 
Thenay were wrought by means of fire, and the being who 
wrought the flints of the Tortonian and the Aquitaine epoch was 
not man, but an intelligent animal. This animal, more intelli- 
gent than the most intelligent recent apes, could not have been 
man like us, for all the higher animals have been modified since 
the middle Tertiary. That creature was intermediate between man 
and ape, a precursor of man. M. Mortillet has always given us 
great pleasure by the energy of his convictions, but in this paper, 
as in others lately published, there is a spitefulness which mars 
their effect. It looks very much like dodging the issues when we 
follow a man like De Quatrefages to the very brink of a conclu- 
sion and then shrink back, saying, “ The geologists tell us man 
could not have lived in that time.” See also an account of new 
diggings at Thenay by D’Ault-Dumesnil. Materiaux, xix. 241. 
Remarks on chipped stone implements, by F. W. Putnam. 
(From the Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem Press.) This 
communication, made in June 29, 1883, has just appeared, and, if it 
were not too late to scold, we might complain from absolute 
knowledge that the author has not told us all he knows about the 
Subject. It is to be hoped that he will put the same nicety of 
analysis into his technical as into his archeological papers. 
Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi valley, by William H. 
Holmes. (From the Proceedings of the Davenport Academy.) 
Washington, Judd & Detweiler. The splendid collection o 
mound-pottery at Davenport is well known. Mr. Holmes sig- 
nalized three pottery areas; Upper Mississippi, Middle Missis- 
sippi, and Lower Mississippi, or Gulf. The great body of the 
Davenport pottery is from the middle province, and of this there 
ae typical regions. The description of Mr. Holmes covers the 
finding, age, use, construction, material, color, form, finish, 
ornamentation. As an artist Mr. Holmes lays himself out on 
the form and ornamental patterns. Believing with Klemm that 
every art commences with a natural object, the author has worked 
out by means of the Davenport pottery the shapes of the vessels 
and the figures traced upon them. 
Prehistoric Dogs, by M. Zabarowski, Materiaux, June, 18835, p. 
263. From the commencement, or at least the middle of the 
Quaternary epoch, before any possible effort at domestication, the 
