1202 General Notes. [November, | 
10. In a minute and careful manner, assisted by diagrams, Mr, 
Dorsey described, from personal observation, the shape and ar- 
rangement of the Osage camp, and the intricate system of vigil 
discussions, and dances preparatory to a war, a foray, or a horse- 
stealing expedition. This paper will be published in full by 
Major Powell in the Contributions to North American Eth- 
nology. si 
11, 14. Miss Fletcher has been spending two years among the 
Indians, living in their camps, and her experiences are of the 
most absorbing interest. l 
13. Mr. Chick’s apparatus for mounting delicate crania was 
exhibited and explained by Mr. Putnam. 
16. The Charnay collection is pretty well understood from 
notices in Science, the Century Magazine and the AMERICAN Nat 
URALIST. Dee 
20. Miss F. E. Babbitt exhibited a series of rude palæolithic 
implements of milky quartz, found in the modified drift of the | 
Mississippi river above Minneapolis, fifteen feet beneath the sur- 
face. Quite a discussion was evoked by these rivals of the finds 
in the Trenton gravels. ey 
22. The classification of Major Powell was general as regar® 
science at large and elaborated only in the field of anthropology. 
he author discarded all merely biological studies, and viewed 8 
anthropological par excellence only psychology, language, arts, 
sociology and mythology. a 
The meetings of this section were generally well attended, and 
the discussions showed that the audience were in T 
thy with the speakers. At the next meeting Professor R 
rse will preside, and Mr. Wm. H. Holmes will act as% 
Mo 
retary, = 
Wisconsin HısroricaL CoLLecTIONsS.—The ninth volume a 
this excellent series covers the years 1880, 1881, 1882. shat i i 
tor, Mr. Lyman C. Draper, has brought together much a ua 
teresting in the early history of the State, and thé 
papers on archæology and ethnology : celia 
1, Emblematic mounds in Wisconsin. By the Rev. S. D. Peet. 
2. A mound near Boscobel. By the Hon. C. K. Dean. 
3. Early historic Relics of the Northwest. By Professor J. D. Baler. 
4. Indian customs and early recollections. By Mrs. H. S. Baird. ; a 
The first paper begins with the history of explora d 
the effigy mounds, and gives many valuable bibliograp me 
ences. The author then summarizes his own studies of these 
them. It isa remarkable fact that the large major a 
works were situated on the natural lines of travel an settlers 
prominent places which first attracted the apent paper, 
The significance of the mounds is not discussed in U6 F 
fix on paper 
author's design being to describe them and to 
