952 General Notes. [September, 
their mothers on the opposite bank, one ran around neighing sor- 
rowfully. Soon this foal of three months came to the bank, and, 
gazing over the stream, perceived his mother, who was already car- 
ried some thousand feet down stream. With a piercing, indeseri- 
bable cry, and a prodigious bound, he sprang into the water. For 
an instant he disappeared, then came into sight swimming vigor- 
ously towards his parent. Unable to see her for the waves, the 
young creature, who just before had feared to enter the water, 
seemed again to care for life. The foal reached its mother, al- 
lowed her head to rest on his shoulder as he swam towards shore, 
and succeeded in saving her. “The horses here have more moral 
sense than the people,” says M: Briot. He who reads the daily 
papers will be likely to come te the same conclusion as regards 
‘other countries than Albania. 
ANTHROPOLOGY .' 
Bureau oF Erunotocy—The second annual report of the 
Bureau of Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, 1880-’81, by J. W. Powell, director, is just issuing from 
e Government press, bearing the date 1883. The volume will 
be uniform in appearance with the first, and will contain XXxvII— 
about 500 pages, 77 plates, 714 figures and 2 maps. The ollow- 
ing is the table of contents : 
Report of the director, pp. XV-XXXVII. 
Zuñi fetiches. By F, H. Cushing. pp. 9-46. 
Myths of the Iroquois. By Erminnie A. Smith. pp. 47-116. 
Animal carvings from the mounds of the Mississippi valley. By H. W. Henshaw. 
pp. 117-166. 
Navajo silversmiths, By Dr. Washington Matthews. pp. 167-178. 
Art in shell of the ancient Americans. By W. H. Holmes. pp. 179-306. 
Catalogue of collections, etc. By James Stevenson. pp. 307-422. 
Catalogue of collections, By James Stevenson. pp. 425-466. 
The editorial work on the volume has been in charge of m, 
James C. Pilling, and the reader will feel his obligation to him on 
ties, viz., arts, institutions, languages and opinions. The facts H 
each field of research throw Goch Teit dpo each other field p 
one cannot be neglected without injury to the others.” The p 
of the bureau is carried on mainly by specialists in its employs 
but collaborators in all parts of the country assist in many woy” 
; : JC 
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