THE

American Antiquarian

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ORIENTAL JOURNAL.

VOL VII-JANUARY-NOVEMBER, 1885.

Edited by Stephen D. Peet.

STANFORD LIBRARY

CHICAGO, ILL.

F H. REVELL, PUBLISHER,

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOLUME VII. NO. 1. JANUARY, 1885.

THE RACES OF THE INDO-PACIFIC OCEAN-POLYNESIANS-2d paper, By
Prof. J. Avery.

THE IROQUOIS SACRIFICE OF THE WHITE DOG. By Horatio Hale

ANCIENT AGRICULTURAL WORKS IN AMERICA-Illustrated-By Stephen

D. Peet.

CORRESPONDENCE-Footmarks in Kentucky, by E. A. Allen; Conical

Mounds in Europe, by E. Boetticher, "Bangs" among the Indians, by

E. G. Broadhead; Ancient Dams in the Klamath River, by Wm. F.

Clark; New Vocabularies from Oregon, by J. Owen Dorsey; Relics of

Copper from Eastern Pennsylvania, by A. F. Berlin; The Great Serpent

Mound, by J. P. McLean; Errors in the Location of tribes, by D., G.

Brinton.

EDITORIAL-NOTES ON ENGLISH ARCHEOLOGY-AVotive Tablet; Prof. A.

H. Sayce in Egypt; W. S. Ramsey in Phrygia; Dr. Ward; The New

Fiall of the British Museum; Lectures at Cambridge and Oxford; the

Excavations at Zoan; Cope Whitehouse; Xenophon's March Traced

Out; Armlets in South Kensington Museum; Paleolithic Implements at

Reading: Rev. W. S. Lach, Szyrma

NEW DISCOVERIES-Lake Dwellers' Relics; Catechumen Cross in Michi-

gan; Cliff Dwellers' Ruins Photographed; Greek Ostrakas in Egypt;

Stone Grave; Posts in a Mound; Discoveries in New Mexico; Antiquities

of Ohio; Jewish and Zulu Customs; A Large Indian Mound near Car-

terville, Ga.; Monoliths in Central America .

NOTES FROM THE FAR EAST, by Prof. J. Avery-Ancient Intercourse of

China with Foreign Nations; The Kubus of Sumatra; Ptolemy's Geog-

raphy of India and Southern Asia; Word Transformation in Sinhalese

NOTES ON CLASSICAL ARCHEOLOGY, by Prof. A. C. Merriam-The latest

Discoveries from Epidaurus; Pompeii; The Archæological Institute of

America; Salamis in the time of Solon; Excavations at Olympia; The

Egypt Exploration Fund; An Ancient King of Tello; The Temple of

Esculapius.

REPORTS AND MAGAZINES-Young Mineralogist; Western Antiquary; The

Critic; The Orientalist...

BOOK REVIEWS-Lectures on the Origin of Religion, by Abbie Reville,

D. D.; A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, by Albert S. Gat-

schet; Marcus Aurelius Antonius, by Paul Barron Watson; Truths and

Untruths of Evolution, by John B. Drury; The Study of Origins, or

The Problem of Knowledge of Being and of Duty, by E. DePressense, D.

D.; Natural Law in the Spiritual World, by Henry Drummond; The

Destiny of Man, viewed in the Light of his Origin, by John Fiske;

Universalism in America, by Richard Eddy, D. D.; Brahmaism, or,
History of Reformed Hinduism, by R. Chandra Bose.

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VOLUME VII. NO. 2. MARCH 1885.

WHO WERE THE Mound BuildERS?-Second paper-By Cyrus Thomas.

SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIAN EARTH AND SHELL MOUNDS OF

THE ATLANTC COAST OF FLORIDA-By A. E. Douglass .

GAME DRIVES AND HUNTING SCREENS AMONG THE MOUNDS-By S. D.

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