i^i;ihc. ;it the touch of his superior potency. 
This ui<i\' be. Jt is undoubtedly old 
fashioned to believe in American antifi- 
luiies, ;unl (pule :i recomniendation t^r 
luiy one that he has ^iieeeedeiJ in i-aisiii,j,- 
Some (Kiubls over an American arciKCo- 
log'icul tiud. But it is ainu.-ing' to ivoow 
that in a subse([ueiit p.inipliiet o > " 1 lie 
(Jii'Cuhir, Sipnirc and Octa^'oiial ivirtli- 
w orlvs of Oliio." Prof, i'houias limls si.eli 
evidence of geometrical Uimwdeilge in 
tlie construction of ceiiaiii nf tie- Unio 
worlvs that he is forced to .-a.v that, w hile 
"there is notliing in them or connected 
with them colli rai y to the lheor\ of 
tlieir Indian ori,i;iii. except it be the .-in- 
gle fact tliat a few of tliem a[i[iioacli 
very near.y to true geometrical h^^ure.-,'" 
yet ■■that Indians are le.-s able now to 
perform many things which iieee,^,~i i >■ 
formerly compelled Iheni to practice;" 
and once more, "No valid rea-on can be 
presented why Indians taug h^ neces- 
sity and [iractice, could not lay olf by 
the eye and by means at hand, llgures 
with which they were fanii liar, more 
correctly than the white mm. without 
instrtiinenif.' It is impossible to believe 
that the learned Professor was ever jx-r- 
soiially acquainted with an Indian, after 
such stateineiils. 8onie inkling, howev- 
er, ef the straights to which the ohicial 
mind was driven, can be perceived by 
means of these ipiotations, upon w hich 
comment is unnecessary'; tiie frotessoTs 
ow n w ords best answer las thesis. 
The iiiurh is the un\y other pri>[)osit ion 
1 bhall noiice. This is a i o.d s at^ m nl 
that the red-Indians iuid the .Mi. mid 
Biiildejs were the same. When it is i-e- 
called that a lar'ge portion of the mound.- 
were known to the earliest comer.- into 
the Great Basin, and were mysterious 
antiquities to the Indians then; that ob- 
jects have been taken from the mounds 
that (_li.-play a different dress and dilfei- 
eiit arms from any worn by the red-In- 
dians; that some of the works di.-play 
such vast expenditure of menial labor, 
that no one \N ith a knowledge of indiaii 
character, from old L'apt. -foliii Smith 
down to Kit Cai'son, could ue imule lo 
beleive them capable of it; one c.ai ap- 
preciate the delicious audaeit\' dispbiy- 
ed. In tlie Cahokia mound alone was 
U,UOU,0UU cubic leet of earth ; that is over 
f, 000,000 wagon loads ai.d ai lea>t lO.noo. 
Ot)0 "Indian loads. " That is, it would re- 
quire from 1,000 Indians 10.000 loads each 
to erect it. Banish the thought that ihe 
'•Moble red-man'' could ever liave been 
brought to this condition, fhis stupen- 
dous mound alone is sufficient to inter- 
pose as positively decisive that its 
builders and the red-man w ere totally 
and I'adically distinct; and all the Pio- 
fessor's remarkable '•links" cannot nnike 
them the same — unless, indeed, tiie I'ro- 
lessor got his notions of Indian charac- 
ter from Cooper's novels. — IF. IT. 
"We hear of African shne,- being 
bound in INIorocco. Is not this a little 
too luxurious ?" 
Wiiliam Ferrel. 
A CO-"\n'l.l-.'rK LIST UF HIS l'rBLJ( 
'i'liei-e lives, in tmr mid,-t, at 1U41 Bioail- 
way, the niojst eminent Meteorolog'ist the 
\NOild inis ever known; Prof. William 
Ferrel. pos.-essing world wide fame, yet 
engulfed in local ol^curity. lie was 
born in Bedford county. Pa., Januar,^ 29, 
1817. 'When 12 years of age. his father 
moved to a Jarin in Beikeley county, Va., 
whe'-e lie spent his boyhood. In lfS39, 
Fei-rel entered Marshall College, Merceis- 
burg, P.I. After reaching the Junior class, 
he entered Bethany ("oliege. giailuating 
from that institution .J iil\ 4.1844. Pol- 
lowing this, he spent a number of yeais 
teaching; piu-suing, all the while, the 
bent 01 his chiklhood, and irom iimet(i 
lime contributed an ides of -ci- 
entitic value to the leatling scientilic 
journals, jii 1S8^2 Pi'of. Fernd eiigagetl 
in the work of the signal ofiitie. at \\ ash- 
ington, w here he remained lor lour yeais. 
lie came to this cil}- about three years, 
ago. He is a member of the (jcimaii, 
I'^rench. English and Austrian Meleoro- 
logic'.al .Societies and was i'ecentl> elected 
to hoiKiiar}- niember.-hip to the l\an>as 
City Academy of Science. The follow- 
ing is a comi)lete list of Ids scienlitic 
pa[)er.-. 
On the effect of the Sun and Momi up- 
on the iiotary Motion of the Earth. — 
GoukVs Aatrun. Jour.. III. 18")3, 138-142. 
On Vision. — N(i!</ti:i/le Jour. M<;d. it 
Snnj., Vlll, 18,5,^1. '2-2-28, 9-2-ln2 192- 
■202. 
tm the va-iable Mai- A I (>!.— Zio.. \ lil, 
277-282. 
An i-.'s.-ay on i heWinds and the Currents 
of the Ocean.— Z>o , IX.18."G. Hepubli.-hed 
in Profpssiunal Paper of tlir Siyaiil Serv- 
ice, No. XH. 188-2. 
On 'I'he Gyroscope.— i5o.. IX. 18.)U. 
TheProblem of theTides w ith regai'd to 
Oscillations of theSecond Kind. — GuulcTa 
Af^tron. Jour., IV, 18.50. 173-170. 
Inrtuence of the Earth's Rotation upon 
the lielative Motion of bodies near its 
Surface.— Do.. \\ 18.58. 97. 
The Inllnence of the lvarih"s Jvdtalion 
upon Rotating Bodies at it- Sm-face. — 
Dn.. V . Il.!-li4. 
'I'he Motions nf Fluids and Solids liel- 
ative to the 1 arth's Sui-faee. — Cdiithridije, 
Mass.. 3Iath. Month bj. 1 & II. 18.58 & 1859, 
passim. Republished in P rofe^iHiuniil 
Paper of the .Siijnul Service. No. Vill, 
with notes liy Prof. Frank Waldo. .\b- 
stract in Amer.Jour. /S'c('.. XXX I , I.SCI. 
27-r)l. Repniilished in Profett.^iomil Pa- 
per of the Signal Service, No. XIJ. 
Narrative of tiie Amer. Exp. to N. \V. 
British America to observe the Total 
Eclipse of the Sun. July 18,1860. Avu^r. 
Jour. ^ci..XXXI. 139-142. 
On the Cause of the Annual Inundation 
of the Nile.— Z>o., XXXV. 1863. 6-2-64. 
Note on the Inllnence of the Tides in 
(iausing an A]jpareni" Acceleration of 
the Moon's Mean Motion.^ — Proc. Amer. 
^\cad. of Arts and Sciences, Boston. VJ. 
18C4. 379-383. 
Communicatiou supplementary to the 
preceding.— Z>u., 1865, 390-393. 
On Certain Formuhe of interpolation, 
—Do.. Vll, 2-12. 
On an Annual Variation in the Daily 
Mean l>evel of the Ocean, ami its (Uiuse. 
—Do., Vni. 1805, 3l-3b. 
The (Jause of Low Barometer in tue 
Polar Regions and in the Central Parts 
of Cyclones.— .\«<i(/-e, iV, 1871, 226-228. 
Van .Xosiraiid's Eiuj. it/a;/... V, 525-627. 
Republished in Professional Paper of the 
Sigrial Service. No. XII. 
The (Joiistant Currents in the Air and 
the Sea. — Nature, XI, fb6-187. 
Relation Between tlie Barometric Gra- 
dient and the Velocity of the Wind. — 
Amer. Jour. Sci., VIII, 1874. 343-344. 
Washington Phil. Sac. Bull ,i, 100-109. 
Bezieliungzwisclien lieni barouietischen 
Gradienten unci die Windgescheviiid- 
igkeit. — Wieii. Zeitschr. Met..^, 254-l!o5. 
New Converging Series, Expressing 
thefialio Between the Circumference 
the Diameter of a Circle, — Smillisonian 
Ojutr dial ions, IS' o. 'r 
Di.-cutrsion of iheTule.- of Boston Har- 
bor. — U. S. Coast Survey Iieport for 1808, 
Appendix No. 5, 52 pp. 
On tlie Moon's Mass, as detluced fron-i 
a Discussion of the Tides of Boston Har- 
bor.— for 1870, App. No. 20, 10 [>[>. 
Report ot Meteorological Elkcts upon 
Tides from Observations. — ior lb71 , 
App. No. 6, 7 pp. 
Meteorological Eth cts upon tlie Heights 
of the 'fides. — Amer. Jour. Ac; , \' . jS7o, 
342-347. W'as/iinijton Phil. Bull., 1,53-54. 
Discussion of Tides in New Yoik 
Harbor. — U. S. Coast Survey Iieport for 
1S75, App. No. 12, 194-220. 
'Titlal fvcsearches. — Coast Suroeij, 1874, 
4°, 270 pp. 
On a (Jontroverted Point in Loplace's 
Theory of the fides. — Pkil. Mag., 1, 1876, 
182. 
JMetcii. u.ogic.ii Jiesearches for ttie use 
of the (Joa>t Pilot, Part 1; On tue JMc- 
clianics and the General jMotioiis oJ the 
Atmosphere. — ]l'a,^hington, iSil , 4". Also 
in U.S. Coast Survey Iieport tor 1875,369 
-412. Iteviev.'. W'ien. Zeitschr. fur Met., 
XIV, 1879, 386-390. 
Meteorological fUseaichib lor the u.-e 
ol the Coas-t Pilot, Part II; On ( yclonc.-, 
'foriiadoes and \\ ater-spouls. — W'as/ung- 
ton 1880, 4". Also mU. S. Coast Survey p,- 
port for 1878, 170-267. 
Abstract \\\Amer. Jour. Sci.. XXII, 1881. 
33-48. Ab.-tr. ct reprinted in Professional 
Paper of the Signal Service, No. 12, also 
abstract in Naturforscher, XIV, 1881, 345 
-348. and /8'c(>;i«(/!'6' ^lTOer/c««.XLI V, 1881 . 
304. Review in Nature, XXV, 155 and 
291, also XXA'l, 9 and 31. Wien. Zeitschr. 
Met., XVII, 161-175. 
Meteorological Researi'hes for the use 
of the Coast Pilot, Part III; On Baro- 
metric Hypsometry aud the Reduction of 
the Barometer to Sea Level. — Wushing- 
ton. 4°. Also in U. S. Coast aiid Geodetic 
Survey Beport for 1882, App. No. 10. 225- 
269. 
"Wind Pressure. — Van Nostrund's Eng- 
