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CHARLES COLCOCK JONES.

Col. Charles Colcock Jones, who died at his home in Augusta, Georgia, July 19, 1893, was a model citizen and a man of national reputation as an orator and scholar. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, on the 28th of October, 1831, his boyhood being spent in Liberty county, Georgia, on the estates of his distinguished father, the Rev. Charles C. Jones. The early studies of Colonel Jones were pursued at home under tutors and partly under the immediate supervision of his father. He took a partial course at South Carolina College, Columbia, and graduated with distinction from Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1852, and in 1855 from the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B.

In 1854 Colonel Jones began the practice of law in Savannah, and on the breaking out of the civil war, in 1861, was mayor of that city. He served through the war as an officer of artillery with particular distinction, and in 1865 removed to New York city, where he practiced law for ten years, continuing with renewed vigor his career as a writer in the departments of history and science. He returned to Georgia in 1877, taking up his residence in the suburbs of Augusta, where, in addition to his professional labors, he found time to prosecute his favorite studies, producing numerous works of value and some of high importance.

His historical and biographic works are numerous and valuable, covering nearly all periods of American history, though referring in the main to the south and more especially to his native State. Of especial interest to ethnologists may be mentioned: Dead Towns of Georgia, 1878; De Soto's March through Georgia, 1880; Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast, 1888; and History of Georgia, 1883, in two volumes, the first treating of the aboriginal and colonial periods and the second dealing especially with the revolutionary epoch and the organization of the State.

The archeologic and antiquarian works of Colonel Jones have contributed more, perhaps, than any other group of his numerous publications to establish his national and international reputation. The following examples of this class are particularly worthy of mention Aboriginal Studies in Georgia; Primitive Manufacture of Spear and Arrow-points on the Savannah river; Silver crosses from an Indian grave mound; and Primitive storehouses of the Creek Indians, published in the Smithsonian reports. Others are: Monu

mental Remains in Southern Georgia, Savannah, 1859; Ancient Tumuli on the Savannah river, New York, 1868; Ancient Tumuli in Georgia, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1869; and Antiquities of the Southern Indians, New York, 1873. The last-mentioned work, a volume of 520 pages, fully and handsomely illustrated, is the most important of these and gave him a world-wide reputation. It is a hand-book with all students of American archeology and altogether one of the most valuable contributions yet made to the subject. During the last decade this work has been in a large measure rewritten by the author and much new material and many important illustrations added.

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It was but natural that the historian and archeologist should turn his attention toward the collection and preservation of the materials of history and archeology. His collections of autographs, autograph letters, and portraits illustrative of American history, and especially of the revolutionary period, are extensive and of great value. His library comprises some 4,500 well-selected volumes, 200 of which have been illustrated by himself at great expense. is especially rich in works relating to Georgia. Of particular interest and value to the scientific world are his collections of aboriginal relics, which embrace some 20,000 objects illustrative mainly of the arts, historic and prehistoric, of the southern Indians. These valuable treasures are now in possession of his son, Mr. Charles E. Jones.

It is remarkable that from one family should spring two sons, Colonel Jones and his younger brother, Dr. Joseph Jones, now of New Orleans, with tastes turned and abilities exerted in a direction so rare two men to whom the science of man should owe more than to all others in the south combined. Colonel Jones was a member of numerous literary and scientific societies at home and abroad and the degree of LL.D. was twice conferred upon him.

Physically Colonel Jones was a man of exceptionally fine type; in character he was noble and in disposition gentle and charitable. His intellectual endowments were of the highest order, and in the varied field of his activities the community, the state, and the country will not readily find an equal. His power as an orator was commanding, his literary style fluent and forcible, his judgment all but unerring, and his energy and industry the marvel of his associates. His many works are a fitting and lasting monument to his memory. W. H. HOLMES.

NOTES AND NEWS.

AMONG THE DISTINGUISHED FOREIGNERS who came to America to study the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago were Prince Roland Bonaparte and Dr. Paul Topinard, who were in America during the months of April and May. Both of these gentlemen have visited our country previously and they are both familiar with the English language.

On returning to Paris, Dr. Topinard contributed to L'Anthropologie a paper of fifty pages upon the science of anthropology in the United States. In his opening chapter he tells us that when a boy he lived eight years in the States, and confesses that the country impressed him more favorably then than it does now, which may be attributed either to a change in the country itself or to transformations which have taken place in the Doctor during the last forty years. Dr. Topinard gives a tolerably good running review of the science of anthropology in America, though he omits. the names of Albert Gallatin, Horatio Hale, Squier and Davis, the two Bancrofts, Dr. Washington Matthews, Colonel Charles C. Jones, and others whom he might include in this honored list.

In speaking of the care bestowed by the National Museum upon costume and the neglect of anatomical characters in setting up the figures of Indians, it is quite certain that the Professor has overlooked the immense albums of Indian photographs in Washington, taken front and side face, after the method of Prince Bonaparte and other European ethnologists. There is a standing order by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that every Indian delegation that comes to Washington shall be so photographed at the Bureau of Ethnology, and these instructions are carefully carried out.

It is quite true that the subject of craniometry has been neglected in America recently, for the reason that the results have not been satisfactory and seem to be rather a kind of will-o'-the-wisp, which ever leads the inquirer on to more numerous and intricate measurements. Be that as it may, the subject has received due consideration at the World's Columbian Exposition, under the management of Professor Putnam.

In the enumeration of collections relating to anthropology and ethnology Dr. Topinard has omitted those from Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and San Francisco. He speaks in a very appreciative way of the work done in America, and commends especially the labelling of material and the efforts made in all the collections to make them as available as possible for instruction.

In speaking of the separation, at Washington, of the archeological and ethnological specimens, a remark is made that these two sciences are really one, and that the material ought not to be kept apart. This is no doubt true. There is no place in the world where this unity of the two sciences is more strenuously maintained than it is in the city of Washington.

Perhaps the most important point in Dr. Topinard's paper is his summary of the discussions which have taken place recently regarding early man in America. In all his remarks upon this subject he takes the side of Dr. Abbott, Dr. Cresson, Professor Wright, and other advocates of the high antiquity of man, and has wholly failed to comprehend the purport of numerous recent and striking developments pointing in the other direction. Professing to approach the subject with unbiased mind, his writing bears every evidence of the dominance of preconceived opinions.

There are two distinct questions now agitated by American anthropologists, based on the recent investigations of Mr. W. H. Holmes. The first of these relates to the status of culture indicated by the rude paleolith-like flaked stones, thought by the finders to have been obtained from glacial formations. These objects are, on closer examination, found in every case to be identical with the ordinary rejects of the arrow-maker of the region concerned, and our archeologists argue that since these are not verified implements they are not, even if found in the gravels, a competent index of the grade of culture reached by the peoples who made them. Up to this time no reliable proofs of the actual status of the hypothetic glacial culture have been obtained. The whole number of rudely flaked stones reported from the gravels in place does not exceed one hundred, and the finders have, as a rule, been either unskilled observers of glacial phenomena or without a due appreciation of the consequences of superficial observation.

The second question relates to the evidence of man's antiquity in America. Mr. Holmes has carefully and systematically examined

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