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esjiecially when accompanied by a south wind, makes them active. 
During the day they commonly remained motionless, hidden 
behind the bark of the branches, with feet and hands compactly 
folded under the body ; but as soon as night comes, they are alert. 
About the first of October they left the branches and nestled 
away in the damp earth, where they now remain unless exposed 
to a temperature above 60°, when they occasionally creep out, but 
soon return to their quarters. 
Dr. B. Joy Jeffries described a peculiar expression in the 
eyes of color-blind persons, first noticed by Professor Wilson, but 
to which he had been unable to find a single other reference in 
the literature of the subject. Upon their attention being drawn 
to it others have noticed this “ look,” which gives the color-blind 
a sort of vacant, far-away, or frightened expression, and Dr. 
J effries hoped for further study of the matter. 
Mr. F. W. Putnam exhibited a small carved bone that had 
long been a mystery to him, and it was only lately that he had 
obtained a clue to its character and probable origin. The bone 
was a small jfiece of the upper part of a human humerus about 
two inches long, which had been carved in a peculiar manner to 
represent a human head and body with large hands. The features 
of the face were large and fiat and represented in a peculiar way. 
This interesting object was given to Mr. Putnam several years 
ago by the late J. Wingate Thornton, who obtained it at Scar- 
borough, Maine, where it was found in a well in 1871. 
From the testimony collected by Mr. Thornton, there is not 
the least doubt that the bone was found as stated in the affidavit, 
by Edward Tompson, who was engaged in clearing out his well 
and making it a little deeper. It is also certain that none of Mr. 
Tompson’s family ever saw the bone before it was brought up 
from the well in 1871, and there is no knowledge of any visitor 
to the house between the years 1860 (when the well was dug) 
and 1871 (when it was deepened) having had such an object, and 
the well is so situated away from the road as not to be visible to 
the few strangers who might be passing the house. Further 
there can be no doubt that the bone was found in one of the last 
