Major Rust was a warm friend of the Mission Indians and did much to alleviate their sufferings. He was interested in educational matters and was largely instrumental in the founding of the Pasadena Public Library, of which he was chosen president. He was twice married — in 1851 to Fidelia Humphrey, who died in 1899, afterward to Miss Hattie S. Elliott. His wife and five children survive him.

George W. H. Stouch, Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. A., retired, was born in Gettysburg, Pa., March 3, 1842, and died in Washington, D. C., November 11, 1906. Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, when but nineteen years of age, he enlisted in the 11th U. S. Infantry, was promoted for gallant conduct at Chancellorsville, prostrated later by typhoid fever, seriously wounded at Gettysburg, and came out at the close of the war as a commissioned officer in the 3d U. S. Infantry, to be assigned at once to active duty on the Indian frontier, where he spent most of the remaining years of his life up to his final prostration a few months ago, due directly to his old wound.

The passing away of Colonel Stouch loosens another of the few remaining links which bind the present to the past of the great Western Plains. His personal acquaintance included Colonel William Bent, of Bent's Fort, John S. Smith, the old-time Cheyenne trader, Lone Wolf, Little Raven, Roman Nose, Dull Knife, and a score of other famous

chiefs and frontiersmen of forty years ago. He commanded a company of regulars at the great treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1867, the first treaty by which the wild Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho, and Comanche recognized the power of the U. S. Government and consented to come upon reservations. This was perhaps the largest Indian gathering in the history of the Plains, there being about 5,000 Indians in attendance, besides some 600 whites, including commissioners, military, and civilians. The Colonel's description of the defiant entry of the Cheyenne on this occasion was graphic-charging down in military order, every man mounted, painted, and stripped to the G-string, swinging his rifle above his head, with a belt of cartridges around his naked waist and another wrapped in bracelet fashion around his arm. Before a year had passed the Colonel's command was fighting these same Cheyenne along the Kansas frontier. In all these dangers and alarms his young wife was always near his side. Incidental to this campaign was the heroic stand on Arickaree Fork by Colonel (General) Forsyth, who also has passed away within a few weeks, fifty men against five hundred for a whole week until help arrived. In 1894-98 Colonel Stouch acted as agent for the Northern Cheyennes and Crows of Montana. On December 15, 1898, he was put on the retired list for disability. From January 1, 1900, until the beginning of his

final illness in the summer of 1906 he served in the same capacity with the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho in Oklahoma, being thus brought into daily friendly contact with the chiefs and warriors whom he had formerly met in battle. His honorable record of forty-five years as a soldier is a matter of official history. In his dealings with Indians, both as military officer and as agent, he was sympathetic and firm in exactly the right proportion to command affection and respect. No man in the service understood better the character and customs of the Indian, or could utilize this knowledge to better advantage to produce results. As a man he was consistent and upright, conscientious and exact, kindly and helpful, in all relations of life. He is survived by his widow, a son, and a daughter. JAMES MOONEY.

THE COURTS have handed down a decision favorable to the University of Rochester, to which Lewis H. Morgan, who died a quarter of a century ago, bequeathed the sum of $75,000 for the higher education of women. It would seem natural that Mr Morgan's estate should have been bequeathed for the purpose of perpetuating the notable anthropological work to which he devoted his life, save for the fact, which is not generally known, that he lost a brilliant daughter a few years before his own death, a sad occurrence that no doubt determined the purpose of his generous bequest.

ON THE OCCASION of its recent quatercentenary the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred by the University of Aberdeen on the following, together with many others: J. Deniker, librarian of the Museum of Natural History, Paris; Arthur J. Evans, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Harald Höffding, professor of philosophy, Copenhagen; Commandatore Rudolfo Lanciani, professor of ancient topography, University of Rome; W. M. Flinders Petrie, professor of Egyptology, University College, London; and Salomon Reinach, professor of archeology, Paris.

THE FOLLOWING GRANTS have been made by the general committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for research under the section of Anthropology: Excavations in Crete, £100; Glastonbury lake village, £30; Excavations on Roman sites in Britain, £15; Anthropometric investigations, £17, 17s., 3d.; Age of stone circles, £3; Anthropological photographs, £3, 3s., 6d.

THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS of the California Branch of the American Folk-Lore Society have been elected for 1906-07: President, Charles Keeler; First Vice-president, John Fryer; Second Vice-president, W. F. Bade; Treasurer, S. A. Barrett; Secretary, A. L. Kroeber; Councilors,

A M. ANTH., N. S., 8-48.

Charles F. Lummis, W. C. Mitchell, Mrs Thomas B. Bishop, John E. Matzke, C. Hart Merriam, E. J. Molera.

A CORRECTION: An unfortunate mistake occurs in the footnote on the first page of Miss Breton's account of the International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archeology, published in the July-September issue of the American Anthropologist. The statement that "the mountains rise steeply above the caves," etc., refers to the caves of Baoussé-Roussé near Menton, not to those of Le Moustier.

THE FIRST TWO NUMBERS of Volume I of The Old North-West Leaflets, published by Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover, under the auspices of the Chicago History Teachers' Association, consist of "The Last Two Journeys of Father Marquette," by Edwin Erle Sparks, and "Manners and Customs of the Western Indians," by Charles W. Mann.

DR T. MITCHELL PRUDDEN's On the Great American Plateau: Wanderings among Canyons and Buttes in the Land of the Cliff Dweller and the Indian of To-day is announced among the fall publications of George P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

DR D. RANDALL-MACIVER, of Oxford, gave a lecture under the auspices of the American Ethnological Society at the American Museum of Natural History, on October 29, on "The Ethnology and Archeology of North and South Africa."

Mr Louis J. DE MILHAU, A.B. (Harvard, '06), and Mr John W. Hastings, A.B. (Harvard, '05), A.M. (Harvard, '06) have been appointed members of the Peabody Museum staff as ethnologists of the South American Expedition.

Mr O. G. LIBBY, secretary of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, at Bismarck, has commenced a preliminary historical survey of the state for the purpose of locating its archeological and historical materials.

THE seventh annual Huxley memorial lecture of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain was given on November 1 by Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., on the subject of "Migrations."

DR ARNOLD JACORI, professor of zoology in the School of Forestry at Tharandt, has been appointed director of the Zoological and Ethnological Museum at Dresden, in succession to Dr A. B. Meyer.

PROFESSOR ADOLF FURTWÄNGLER has been appointed conservator of the Königliche Antiquarium at Munich, succeeding the late Professor W. von Christ.

DR WILLIAM SEDGWICK, known for his studies of heredity, died in London, October 23, aged eighty-five years.

INDEX TO AUTHORS AND TITLES

(CONSULT ALSO THE LIST OF NAMES APPEARING IN RECENT PROG-
RESS IN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY," PAGES 556-558.)