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 ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES

WE regret to record the death of one of our honorary members Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff, Director of the Ethnographic-Anthropo- logical Museum in Petrograd. Radloff was born in Berlin on January 17, 1837. A long sojourn in West Siberia enabled him to make those profound investigations of Turkic culture which established his scientific fame. Among his works may be mentioned the Volksliteratur der nordlichen turkischen Stdmme (1896-1900), and Aus Siberien (1884, 2nd edition 1893). The latter is a sketch-book, but contains valuable accounts of the Altaian and Kirgiz tribes, a general account of West Siberian shamanism and a report of archaeological excavations.

DR. ROBERT MUNRO, the well-known Scottish archaeologist, died on July 18, 1920 in his eighty-fifth year. His reputation rested par- ticularly on investigations of European lake dwellings. An obituary appeared in Nature of July 29, page 685.

ON February 18, 1920 the Anthropologische Gesellschaft of Vienna celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. During the past months a series of lectures has been given under its auspices under the caption " Rassen- und Kulturfragen der Menschheit." Among the speakers were Drs. Poch, Haberlandt, and Oberhummer.

MR. ALVIN H. DEWEY, President of the Morgan Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association, has been conducting field- work near Rochester Junction, New York. Among other finds of interest, a pottery jar of Algonkian type was unearthed by Mr. Dewey in what seems to have been a Seneca Iroquois grave. The vessel may have been made by some Algonkian captive of the Seneca.

MR. ARTHUR C. PARKER, New York State Archaeologist, has been continuing his exploration of the early historic Seneca stronghold at Boughton hill, near Victor, N. Y. Two pottery jars of the degenerate period of plastic art among the Seneca, which just preceded the abandon- ment of the manufacture of ceramics by that people, were discovered; several bone combs, some of them of unusual form, were likewise obtained.

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