Kneeland.] 306 [April 21, 



of Prof. R. H. Richards of Boston, these tubes are of brass, not 

 of bronze nor copper ; and were probably made from parts of a 

 brass kettle obtained from the whites. The grave most likely 

 dates from about 1650, when the locality had been occupied by the 

 whites about thirty years. The girdle was doubtless an ornament, 

 and in no sense armor. It is placed in Copenhagen among the 

 American antiquities of the Stone Age. Though copper tubes of 

 similar structure have been found in various parts of the United 

 States, especially in the west, and these tubes were undoubtedly of 

 Indian manufacture, he thought that the idea of this kind of orna- 

 mentation was of European origin, and most likely from Scandina- 

 via, using this term in a geographical and not in an ethnological 

 sense, antedating the visits of the Northmen in 1000-1007. He 

 gave many instances of similar ornaments from the Bronze Age in 

 Northern Europe, to be seen in the Antiquarian and Ethnographic 

 Museums of Copenhagen, quoting works, recently published, in 

 which they are figured. He thought that the Norsk colonies in 

 Greenland, for three centuries, had imparted, many European ideas 

 of art and ornamentation to the Eskimo tribes and to the Algon- 

 quin races of the American Indians. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam showed some brass arrowpoints from an In- 

 dian grave at Revere like those found with the Fall River skeleton, 

 and also some similar tubes, but of copper, from a western grave. 

 The tube style of ornament seems a common one among the Amer- 

 ican Indians. 



General Meeting, April 21, 1886. 



Vice President, Mr. F. W. Putnam, in the chair. 



Mr. Percival Lowell read a paper on the Korean language, dis- 

 cussing its affinities, and peculiarities of construction. 



Professor Hyatt showed and explained a series of models illus- 

 trating the development of Amphioxus. The models are a gift 

 to the Laboratory from Mr. R. C. Greenleaf, and afford most val- 

 uable aid to students in acquiring an intelligent idea of vertebrate 

 embryology. 



A note on the supposed Myriapodan genus Trichiulus Scudder, 

 by S.H. Scudder, was. read by title. (See Memoirs, B.S.N.H., in.) 



