The Omori Shell Mounds

Abstract

I HAVE received the enclosed letter from Prof. Morse, with a request that I should forward it to you. I hope that it may be published, for the article in NATURE to which it refers seemed to me to do very scant justice to Prof. Morse's work. I refer more especially to the evidence adduced by him on cannibalim by the ancient inhabitants of Japan—on their platycnemic tibiæ—on their degree of skill in ceramic art—and beyond all other points, on the changes in the molluscan fauna of the islands since the period in question.