port in the meetings of the International Commission and with which he might advise regarding concessions to be made or requested in those points upon which American opinion differs from the views held in some of the other countries." This Advisory Committee has now been completed and is made up as follows: Dr. Gill, representing the National Academy of Science. Dr. Dall, representing the Smithsonian Institution. Prof. Cope, representing the Society of American Naturalists. Prof. Packard, representing the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The September issue of the Western Field and Stream, published in St. Paul, Minn., is noteworthy as presenting a scheme for the protection of the game of the country. Briefly, it contemplates dividing the entire territory of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific, into two concessions along the line of the forteith parallel of latitude, or near it, for each of which there shall be uniform laws and uniform close time, the whole to be under the police surveillance of the National association for the protection of game and fish through its multifarious state auxilliaries. The close time for the northern concession will be from January 1 to September 1, and in the southern concession from February 1 to September 1, during which no shooting shall be allowed on any kind of game whatever, excepting that woodcock and shore birds of the order Limicolæ may be shot in August. The gen eral close time for all kinds of inland fishes, recognized as game fishes, to extend from October 1 to June 1, excepting that fishes of the family Samonidæ, may be caught in April and may. These close seasons conform very nearly to the distribution, habitat, and breeding seasons of the various animals which are sought to be protected; and where they do not, especial exceptions may be made, if deemed expedient. The laws which are to dominate will inhere by legislative enactment; uniform in all the states, and coöperative throughout. Emergencies and bodily stress will always stand in plea for exemption from penalty for violation of the laws when well proven. By private gifts, a Japanese fellowship in economics has been established at the University of Wisconsin, and Mr. M. Shiozawa, of Tokyo, Japan, has been elected to the fellowship for the coming year. Mr. Shiozawa is highly recommended by two distinguished Japanese pro fessors, Professor Iyenaga, of the Higher Commercial College, of Tokyo, Japan, and Professor Motora, of the Imperial University, of the same city. He is spoken of as one of the talented young men of Japan, and it is expected he will do a great work for his native country. He has already graduated from a Japanese college, and has published results of his work. He is now on his way to this country to enter upon his studies at Madison. The members of the Geological Society of France attending the meeting to be held in Algiers, October 6, 1896, will have an opportunity of examining the following localities: October 8-13, Sahel d'alger, Massif de Blida, Médéa; October 14-18, Kabylie du Djurjura; October 19-26, Constantine, Batna and Biskera. In addition to these excursions there will be one preliminary to the meeting. Mr. Brive proposes, October 3-5, to conduct a party to Chélif and Dakra to study the Miocene and Pliocene beds of these districts. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences has in process of construction a Museum of Arts and Sciences. It is proposed to group on one of the four porticos the names of seven great and representative men in science; on another, seven great and representative men in art; on a third, seven great and representative names in philosophy; and on the fourth, seven great and representative names in the realm of the "practicum" or the application of science and art to the so-called material wants of men. Information has been received that Prof. Daniel G. Elliott, of the Field Museum, Chicago, who is now travelling in Somaliland, has returned to Berbera from Gallas Mountains. He intends to make arrangements at once for exploring the interior of the country. He has been fortunate in securing a good collection of the fauna of the country, including quite rare species. The well-known naturalist Mr. Charles H. Sternberg has been collecting fossil plants in the Dakota Group in Kansas during the past season, and has obtained a collection of fine specimens which he offers for sale, either as a whole, or by the single specimen. The first or "general" part of Dr. Richard Hertwig's Lehrbuch der Zoologie has been translated by Professor George W. Field of Brown University, and will be published soon by Henry Holt & Co. Errata of Paper on The Mushroom Bodies of the Hexapod Brain in the August No. Page 644, line 6, after "Fig" insert I. 646, 647, 647, 66 647, 66 647, 648, 66 649, 31, before "uses" insert and. 11, for "brablets" read branchlets. 1, for "which" read a bundle that. 648, after "Fig." insert I. 3, for "afferent" read efferent. 19, after "some" insert of. 649, in note for "Dujardin " read Dujardin's. 649, line 11, for "crythrocephala " read erythrocephala. 66 649, 12, for "Diehl" read Dietl. 649, 66 17, for "Ordunung" read Ordnung. 649, 19, for "Fourmics" read Fourmis. 649, 24, for "Retzins" read Retzius. 66 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST VOL. XXX. November, 1896. 359 PINEY BRANCH (D. C.) QUARRY WORKSHOP AND ITS IMPLEMENTS.1 BY THOMAS WILSON.2 Prof. W. H. Holmes, one of our most accomplished and versatile members, on Nov. 16, 1889, read before our Society an extended report of his investigations in the quartzite boulder quarry at Piney Branch, which was published in the American Anthropologist, January, 1890, pp. 1-26, and is being reprinted in the 15th Annual Rep., Bur. Ethnology. The work described consisted of an excavation up the face of the hill near Piney Branch, in the form of trenches, one 75 feet long and some places 10 feet deep, and other shorter but similar trenches and soundings in the same neighborhood. At the conclusion of his paper, I stood up and complimented him upon the character of the work, and saying that heretofore speculation and theory in the office and with pen and ink, had been employed, instead of actual excavation in the field with the pick and shovel. I congratulated him and the Society upon the new era inaugurated. I said the fact that I did not agree to his conclusions had naught to do with this question and did not prevent me Read before the Anthropological Society, Tuesday Evening, December 4, 1894. Curator of Prehistoric Anthropology, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. |