956 General Notes. [September, 
writer of this note earnestly implores all concerned to examine 
cautiously their ground before hurrying onward. Perhaps Mr. 
Peet is a little too fond of the old explorers and a little to hard on 
Mr. Thomas and Mr. Carr. However that may be, it can do no 
harm to put the gentlemen on their guard. 
Peasopy Musrum.—The 16th and 17th annual reports of the 
trustees of the Peabody Museum, forming Nos. 3 and 4, of Vol. 
III, contains the following anthropological papers: 
Report of the Curator. 
List of Additions to the Museum and Library. ee 
Social and Political Position of Women among the Huron Iroquois Tribes, By Lo- 
cien Carr, Assistant Curator 
i Ca 
Human Remains from Caves in Coahuila, Mex. By C. A. Studley. 
The White Buffalo Festival of the Uncpapas. By Alice C. Fletcher. 
Ohio. With reference to the large mounds near cemeteries the 
author is led to suspect that they are simple monuments marking 
burial sites. The spool-shaped copper ornaments found in collec- 
tions are identified as earrings. But the most notable revelation 
is that with reference to the discovery of wrought meteoric a 
This may lead to the revision of some late discoveries. 
r. Carr, having examined the literature of the subject, a 
to the conclusion that “ the Indian woman was not the overworke 
drudge she is usually represented to have been.” parse 
The most fascinating part of the report is that containing t 
papers of Miss Fletcher. A young woman of rare intelligenc®, 
filled with benevolence, and thristing for knowledge, lives for a 
years in the wigwams of the Omahas and Sioux for the wits 
purpose of doing them good and of learning their social cone! 
tion. We have no doubt she was successful in the former, wee 
certain of her complete success in the latter. Indeed, some oft 
rites mentioned in Miss Fletcher’s papers are for the first time 
described and illustrated, jon 
The long lists of donations and accessions to the cole 
show how complete has been the success of the Peabody Museu™ 
MICROSCOPY AND HISTOLOGY.’ 
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MOUNTING AND PHOTOGRAPHING SECTIONS OF Contat An 
VOUS SYSTEM oF RerriLes anp Batracuians.—Dr. J. J- from 
salon the methods he employed in mounting the sections 
which the plates illustrating his book? were “ artotyped. 
: Saer. Dr. C. O. WHITMAN, Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass g pate 
ae tructure of the Central Nervous System of certain Reptiles an 
chians of America, 1879, 1882. cf. 111, p. bg 
