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SCIENCE. 



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of the values of the table with the lines upon the 

 map, that in this case the individual records are 

 quite fairly represented. 



Station. 



NEW BRUNSWICK. 



St. John 



MAINE. 



Bar Harbor, a. .. 



Bar Harbor, b 



Bridgeton 



Buckfield.... 



Eastport 1 



Fairfield 



Gardiner 



Kent's Hill 



May field 



Orono 



Portland 1 



Sebago Lake 



Solon 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Concord 



Dover 



Grafton 



Hanover 



Lake Village 



Littleton 



Manchester, a 



Manchester, b. . . 

 Meredith Centre. . 



Nashua 



Walpole 



Warner. 



VERMONT. 



Brattleboro' 



Burlington, 



Charlotte 



Chelsea 



Dorset 



Jacksonville 



, Lunenbureh 



.Marlborough 



.Newport 



.Strafford 



Townshend 



.Vernon 



.Windsor 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Amherst, a 



Amherst, b 



Beverly Farms. .. 



Blue Hill 



Boston, a 1 



Boston, b 



Cambridge, a.... 

 Cambridge, b . . . 



Chestnut Hill 



Ohicopee 



Concord, a 



Concord, b 



Cotuit. 



Dalton 



Deerfield 



Dudley 



Fitchburg, a 



Fitchburg, b 



Framinghaxii 



Gilbertville 



Groton, a 



Groton. & 



Holyoke 



Hopkinton 



Lake Cochituate . 

 Lawrence 



Ill 



! 112 

 I 113 

 I 114 



I 115 



. .Leominster 



.Lone Plain 



5 Lowell, a 



I Lowell, b 



. .Ludlow 



. .Lynn 



. .Med ford 



. .Melrose 



..Milford 



. . Milton 



. .Monson 



. .Mount Nonotuck .. 



..Mystic Lake 



. .Mystic station 



. .Nantucket 



. .New Bedford 



. .Newbury r.ort 



. -Northampton 



..North Bererly 



..Northfield 



. Princeton 



. -Provincetown 



..Quincy 



. .Howe 



. .Salem 



• ■ South Hingham .... 



. - Springfield 



( Taunton, a 



-. Taunton, b 



( Taunton, c 



• .Walihsm 



• • Wellesley 



. Westborough 



• -Westvale 



■ -Williamstown 



• - Winchester 



J Worcester, a 



( Worcester, b 



RHODE IfLAND. 



• - Block Island 1 



■ Lonsdale 



- -Nurragsnsett Pier 1 . 



• Olneyville 



• .Pawiucket 



5 Providence, a ...... 



\ Providence, b 



S Woonsocket, a 



\ Woonsocket, 6 



CONNECTICUT. 



. .Canton 



. .Oollinsville 



< Hartford, a 



I Hartford, b 



. .Lake Konomoc 



. .Middletown 



..New Haven 1 



. .New London 1 



..Norfolk 



..Shelton 



. .Voluntown 8 



. .Wallingford 5 



NEW YORK. 



..Albany 1 



. .Brooklyn 8 



. .Lebanon Springs I 



. . Menands 



5 New York, a 3 



( New York, & 1 1 4 



.Setauket ! 4 



3.50 



6.22 



Winslow Upton. 



SOME WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT 

 SURVEYS. 



The work of the topographical department of 

 the geological survey during the past fiscal year 

 shows an increase of thirty-nine per cent over that 

 of the previous season, — a result due mainly to 

 the increased experience and efficiency of the men 

 engaged in its prosecution. The following state- 



1 Station of TJ. S. signal service. 



ment presents in brief form the progress made 

 during the past year, the area being given in 

 square miies : Appalachian section, 22,080 ; Mis- 

 souri, 20,000 ; Cascade, 10,400 ; Texas, 8,000 ; 

 Arizona, 8,000 ; Yellowstone Park, 3,600 ; Gold 

 Belt, 2,400 ; Massachusetts, 2,500 ; New Jersey, 

 1,500 ; total, 78,480. Of the maps intended to 

 show the topographic survey of the United 

 States, 88,000 miles have already been completed, 

 and the proof-sheets issued, giving the results in 

 Alabama, Missouri, Texas, Utah, and Montana. 

 Additional work of the department, covering 

 82,000 square miles, is now in the engravers 

 hands, embracing the following states : Virginia, 

 West Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, New 

 Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. The scale 

 of publication of the survey of Massachusetts and 

 New r Jersey is about one mile to the inch ; in the 

 South Appalachian section, Gold Belt, Yellowstone 

 National Park, Kansas, Missouri, and Texas, two 

 miles ; and in Arizona, Oregon, and northern Cal- 

 ifornia, four miles. The draughtsmen of the 

 office have been mainly employed upon work of 

 the originally compiled map of the United States, 

 and the compilation of the map of New York to 

 serve as a basis for the geologic map. 



Major Powell has just received a collection of 

 objects illustrating the character of the Oraibi 

 Indians of north-eastern Arizona, consisting of 

 ancient pottery, war-clubs, ancient clothing, musi- 

 cal instruments, and the wooden implements used 

 by them in making fire in connection with their 

 religious rites. There is also a large collection of 

 bone, horn, and stone implements, among the last 

 being many fetiches and carved animals employed 

 in their religious ceremonies. There are also sev- 

 eral objects used by these Indians in their mar- 

 riage and funeral rites, the uses of which have 

 been previously unknown. The material gathered 

 is especially valuable and interesting, as so little is 

 known of these Indian tribes who were first vis- 

 ited by Major Powell about ten years ago. 



In the archeological investigations in the 

 south-west, about the ruins of Canon de Chelly in 

 Arizona, among the curious things unearthed by 

 an exploring party of the geological survey were 

 several fragmentary ears of corn, with one com- 

 plete and well-developed ear. The latter was 

 found in a grave with a mummified child. It 

 resembles a common ear of red corn, although 

 somewhat smaller ; and the grains, even at the 

 present time, are well developed, and fit closely 

 over the entire cob. The antiquity of this corn 

 can be determined as far back as six hundred 

 years. The ruins in which the corn was found 

 are in the same state of preservation as they were 

 when Coronado first visited this country in 1540. 



