. Report of the Brown-Harvard Expedition to Nachvak, Labrador, 1900 . The Tallek: tlie South Arm of Nachvak ^founts Fall. Faunof, and , as seen from the Summitof Mt. Ford. E. B. Delaba/rre, Ph. D. i6i {d) Anthropology.—We made no contributions toknowledge in this line, but brought back with us a fewarticles illustrative of the present and past life of theEskimos. To the Peabody Museum of Harvard Universitywe presented a large and unusually interesting ancient stonelamp and a pair of fire-stones; and to the AnthropologicalMuseum of Brown University a number of medicine-charms(said b

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. Report of the Brown-Harvard Expedition to Nachvak, Labrador, 1900 . The Tallek: tlie South Arm of Nachvak ^founts Fall. Faunof, and , as seen from the Summitof Mt. Ford. E. B. Delaba/rre, Ph. D. i6i {d) Anthropology.—We made no contributions toknowledge in this line, but brought back with us a fewarticles illustrative of the present and past life of theEskimos. To the Peabody Museum of Harvard Universitywe presented a large and unusually interesting ancient stonelamp and a pair of fire-stones; and to the AnthropologicalMuseum of Brown University a number of medicine-charms(said by Mr. Ford to have been presented to him by anEskimo chief, Idualuk, from Akpatok Island, who at onetime practiced cannibalism), and of grave relics, the latter in-cluding ancient stone lamps, cooking pots, knives andscraping tools, bird-darts, harpoon points, etc. The fire-stones are of a type new to us. They are two small, roundstones of soft material, in which are embedded great num-bers of minute fragments of iron pyrites. In use, accord-ing to Mr. Townley, the missionary at Hebron, who gavethem to us,

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