Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-10
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Meeting at Its New Rooms Last Evening
Splendid Gift of Relics from India.

Meeting at Its New Rooms Last Evening
Splendid Gift of Relics from India.
The Historical society held regular
meeting last night, thus inaugurating the
use OF their new apartments in the CAPT
tol. The members generally expressed
their approval of the rooms. On taking
the chair Vice President Ramsey said il
was matter of eongratulation that we
had again got back into about the same
quarters from which the fire drove us two
years ago, and that our library and colIec-
lions were in such good condition despite
the disasters of the calamity referred to,
We have here comfortable and commo-
dious apartments land, better than all, thew
were deemed safe from fire, which has al
ways been the worst enemy to the collect
ing and preserving of historical matter.
Judge Flandrau said that the present
agreeable quarters of the society was a
result of the policy inaugurated at the
constitutional convention in 1857, by
which the society was secured quarters in
the capitol. He moved the adoption of a
resolution of thanks to Governors Pills
bury and Hubbard, for their services and
good will in doing all that they could to
| provide the society with comfortable apart
ments-which was unanimously adopted
A number of valuable gifts received since
the last meeting were reported, and the
thanks of the society returned for the
same.
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL RELICS FROM INDIA.
A communication was read from Hon.
Hans Mattson, consul general of the United
States at Calcutta, notifying Gov. Hub
bard that he had sent to him for the So
clety, box of archaeological implements,
| contributed by H. Rivett Carnac F. s. A.,
| of Ghazipar, India, distinguished anti
quarian. Accompanying the letter was a
copy of the one from Mr.. Carnac, making
| the gift, as follows:
GHAzIPAR, India, Nov. %, 1S92.-Dear
Sir: During the past few years, Mr.. +.
Cockburn and myself have been fortunate
enough to find those implements in large
quantities in Banda, hilly district of the
Northwestern Province of India. These
implements consist shelly of stone axes.
or celts, of types well known in Europe.
We have also found stone hammers, wrig-
stones, and variety of other implements,
| some of cosmopolitan types, and othars
| unique.
The celts found are upwards of 400 in
number, and are of two distinct types, pol
ished and Clipped, the former of cliorite,
| and the latter of basalt.
We are of the opinion that both types
were In use at the same time. Implements
OF true palaoelithic types made of quatti-
zile occur scantily in the Banda district,
but are more numerous further south.
The celts vary from 1919 inches in length
1 nd 9 he ir,u Of
length and so OF. in weight.
| The unique specimens of hammers, ETC..
and the largest and most remarkable of
the celts, have been presented by me to the
British museum. Sir P. Cunliffee- Owen,
the we'll known director of the Kensington
museum, has, however, been good enough
to cast the best specimens, and 1 hope
later to send a complete series of colored
| fac SMILES for your acceptance.
In the meantime groups representing
the classes of celts found have been made
up for presentation to the principal mu-
seums and scientific societies of Europe
and the United States. do myself the
honor of intimating that case containing
celts, etc., has been sent to your address,
and in the hope that they may be consid-
cred of sufficient interest to find place in
| your museum.
A few specimens of spoles, or waste
chips, fakes, and cores, may be of value
for comparison with similar objects from
other countries. The chest was procured
in nodules and bands in the Turkoman
limestone, the agate from the beds of
streams which cut through the Rewah con-
| glomerate south of Banda.
A larger collection of ebert implements
than has hitherto been made in India, has
| been brought together by Mr.. Cockburn.
who will describe them more fully later
The ethnic afGnities of the collection are,
he points out, curious. On one hand the
scrapes and knives are of European types,
as are also the mass of the colts. Then
there are certain types which clearly re-
| semble SLICES hitherto only found in Egypt
| by Yukes Brown. Journal Auth. Inst. vol.
vii.
A third type, apparently not common
elsewhere, he designates the saw
hacked knife, has recently been
found in the island of Melos. The coarser
| description of stone knives of quartz
| sandstone and basalt, are not far removed
from those used by the modern Australian
savages.
| The arrow heads, as far as can be judged,
come nearer the multitudinou5 American
forms than any other; but the resemblance
may rather be due to the comparatively
large number of the implements which are
known from America and their compare
tive variety in other countries. Some of
the ebert implements are of recent origin,
and we have come to the conclusion that
stone implements we're probably in gener-
al use among the Kalair1ans or Dravidiau
aborigines of this part of Bundelkhunj
| about 500 B. c., and that the use Of stone
among those people was not quite aban-
doned as late as 600 A. D.
piece of sculpture representing an
aborigine armed with stone axe, recently
discovered at Kaliugha is assigned to the
| seventh century after Christ. How far ante
cedent the use of stone may have been in
this part of the country, no one will ven
ture to guess, in the present state of our
knowledge. But the majority of the i'm
plements have been found on the borders
of the great Gangetic alluvial plain; itself
of no great antiquity.
The alluvium in this part of Bundelk-
hund is largely made up of decomposed
basaltic rocks, which crop up here and
there to the very margin of the Jumna.
No doubt this river has had much to do
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