CORRESP ONDEXCE. 



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CORRESPONDENCE. 



WHERE DO TTIE MEMBERS OF THE AMER- 

 ICAN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION COME 

 FROM \ 



Messrs. Editors. 



HAVING had a curiosity to know, in 

 something more than a general way, 

 how the various sections of the country con- 

 tribute to the attendance at the meetings of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, I have analyzed the 

 " registers of arrivals " of the Boston and 

 Cinncinati meetings. The results, which 

 may be of interest to others as well, are 

 embodied in the following tables. In check- 

 ing off so many names, there is, of course, 

 liability to error, but some pains have been 

 taken to make the statement correct. E. 

 Table I. Attendance by States. 



STATES. 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



Delaware 



Wisconsin 



Michigan 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Ohio 



Kentucky 



West Virginia 



Virginia 



Maryland 



District of Columbia. . 



Tennessee 



North Carolina 



Georgia 



Florida 



Alabama . 



Mississippi 



Louisiana 



Missouri 



Iowa 



Minnesota 



Kansas 



Colorado 



Arizona 



Nebraska 



California 



British Provinces 



England 



Cuba 



Boston t 



Cincinnati % 



Boston 



meeting, 1880. 



14 

 IT 



7 



221* 



IT 



39-315 

 170 

 36 

 47 



1-254 



4 



7 



8 

 21 

 22 



9 



1 



3 



16 

 71-162 



6 



2 



2 



1 



0-12 

 1 



32 



9 



4 



2 







3 







1-52 

 21 



5 



3 

 164 







98S 



Cincinnati 

 meeting, 1881. 



2 

 

 

 23 

 1 



11-37 



45 

 8 



18 



0-66 



3 



10 



29 



27 



61+ 



25 



3 



2 

 18 



30-208 



8 



2 



4 



3 



2 



3-22 



2 

 is 



8 



3 



1 



3 







1 



3- 



4 













 155 



39 



531 



Table II. Attendance by Sections. 



* Excluding Boston. 

 t Excluding Cincinnati. 



X The two or three names without addresses 

 have been credited to the entertaining city. 



IDENTITY OF THE INDIANS AND THE 

 MOUND-BUILDERS. 

 Messrs. Editors. 



In 1875 I read a paper before the Iowa 

 Academy of Science, on "The Mounds and 

 Mound-Builders," in which I took the same 

 grounds and came to the same conclusion 

 as Professor Winchell, in his recent article 

 on the " Ancient Copper-Mines of Isle Roy- 

 ale." My article was suggested by the ex- 

 amination of some mounds on the bank of 

 the Mississippi, in "Whitesides County, Illi- 

 nois. 



Among other things exhumed were one 

 or two skeletons with anchyloses of the first 

 and second vertebrae, and quite a number 

 with flattened shin-bones, and also a flattened 

 or deformed skull. In 1864-65 there was 

 a large number of Sioux Indians, concerned 

 in the massacre at New Ulm, Minnesota, in 

 the prison-camp at Davenport, Iowa. Dr. R. 

 J. Farquharson, of that place, two or three 

 years ago disinterred several skeletons of the 

 prisoners who died there. He found one 

 with the first and second vertebrae anchy- 

 losed, and several with flattened tibia, show- 

 ing that platt/cnemism still exists among 

 the modern tribes, and connects them with 

 the mound-builders. 



Very respectfully, 



P. j. Farnsworth. 

 Clinton, Iowa, September 1, 1SS1. 



A CORRECTION. 



Messrs. Editors. 



In your sketch of Edward D. Cope in 

 the May number of " The Popular Science 

 Monthly," the following statement occurs 



