CURRENT NOTES ON ANTHROPOLOGY. 
STONE IMPLEMENTS FROM THE POTOMAC DIS¬ 
TRICT 
Professor William H. .Holmes con¬ 
tributes to tbe Fifteenth Annual Eeport 
of the Bureau of Ethnology one of 
his excellent and beautiful papers, this 
one on the ‘ Stone Implements of the 
Potomac Chesapeake Tidewater Province,’ 
152 pages, with 104 full-page plates, and 
86 figures in the text. The geograph¬ 
ical and geological relations of the area 
are carefully explained, and the arte¬ 
facts themselves are examined under the 
classification of flaked, battered or abraded, 
and incised or cut stone implements and 
utensils. The typical forms and characters 
are illustrated, the processes of manufacture 
are set forth, and the extensive quarries 
where the material was obtained are de¬ 
scribed. 
The conclusion of the author, after years 
of patient research with reference to the 
antiquity of man’s work in this region, 
maybe given in his own words (p. 146 ): 
“ The art remains preserved to our time 
indicate the prevalence of extremely simple 
conditions of life throughout the past, and 
exhibit no features at variance with those 
characterizing the historic occupancy.” So 
that we shall have to go elsewhere to find 
1 paleolithic man.’ 
