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volume of Proceedings, covering the years 18(J7-'75, should be 

 printed. It was no easy task. Entertainments were given and 

 other ways of raising money devised. A fire interfered seriously, 

 but at last the handsome octavo volume was printed and turned 

 over to the academy. The volume formed part of the display of 



women's work and achievement 

 at the Centennial at Philadelphia 

 in 1876. The happy result of 

 publication upon the academy 

 was immediately apparent. The 

 Proceedings were sent to all parts 

 of the world, and the library of 

 the academy has grown almost 

 entirely out of its exchange. The 

 publication has not only benefited 

 the scientific world by making 

 known valuable original work, 

 but it has made the academy 

 widely known. The Proceedings 

 have been continued up to the 

 present time, and Volume VII is 

 now in progress. During his life- 

 time the Proceedings were ever 

 in J. Duncan Putnam's mind. 

 Volume II was due to him, and 

 early in 1881 he offered to turn over to the academy a complete 

 printing outfit and to personally superintend the publication of 

 Volume III. He did not live to complete it, and that volume is 

 a memorial volume, the final bringing out of which is due to Mrs. 

 Putnam. Since her son's death this lady's great desire in connec 

 tion with the academy has been to see the publications continued. 

 Her energy has never flagged, and finally she has seen the future 

 of the Proceedings assured. 



One of the notable papers in the first volume of the Proceed- 

 ings dealt with the archaeological treasures found by the acad- 

 emy's workers in the mounds of Iowa and Illinois, not far from 

 the city. Local archaeology began to attract the academy's atten- 

 tion about 1873. A little group of interested students did the 

 work of exploration mainly at their own expense and often with 

 their own hands. Important objects had been found. In 1874 

 the academy published a series of seventeen photographs of seven 

 mound-builder skulls. At the 1875 meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Robert James 

 Farquharson represented the academy and read a paper upon 

 these finds. It was this paper to which reference is made above. 

 Its author was no common man. Born of a Scotch father and a 



Fig. 5. Mks. M. L. D. Putnam. 



