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contained papers of much value. At present octavo monographs 

 by such writers as Mrs. Zelia Nuttall and Mr. A. S. Gatschet are 

 also published by the museum. One important and original ac- 

 complishment of the museum remains to be mentioned. In Adams 

 County, ( >hio, on a high bluff at some distance from the nearest 

 railroad town, is the Great Serpent Mound, in some respects the 

 most remarkable monument of antiquity in America. It was 



in danger of destruction, 

 when Prof. Putnam made 

 an appeal for funds for its 

 purchase and preservation. 

 Ladies of Boston responded 

 to the appeal, the money 

 needed was raised, and paid 

 over to the museum, which 

 made the purchase. The 

 place has been pleasantly 

 laid out as Serpent Mound 

 Park, and the old monu- 

 ment itself has been careful- 

 ly surveyed, restored, and 

 put into a condition to with- 

 stand the destroying action 

 of time and the elements. 

 Prof. Putnam is Director of 

 the Department of Ethnol- 

 ogy of the Columbian Ex- 

 position, and in connection 

 with its work has kept par- 

 ties in the field excavating mounds and gathering material. His 

 plan of display is a vast one, and a most instructive and interest- 

 ing object lesson in American anthropology (ethnography, physi- 

 cal anthropology, archaeology) is sure to be prepared. 



New York is not so much a center of anthropological work as 

 it should be. At the American Museum of Natural History there 

 is much good material. Here one may see what is left in Amer- 

 ica of the Squier and Davis collection from the Ohio mounds, 

 containing many specimens figured in the Ancient Monuments of 

 the Mississippi Valley ; the Squier collection from Peru, compris- 

 ing a wonderfully fine lot of greenstone carvings ; the collection 

 of Colonel C. C. Jones, made chiefly in Georgia, numbering five 

 thousand specimens, and the basis of his book, The Antiqui- 

 ties of the Southern Indians ; a remarkable collection in Euro- 

 pean archaeology, including series from the river gravels and 

 caves of France, from the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and from 

 the famous localities of Denmark ; the Emmons collection from 



Dr. C. C. Abbott. 



