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Village Site," "Explorations of the Baum Prehistoric Village 

 Site," and "Explorations of the Edwin Harness Mound." 

 These reports are handsomely illustrated and show not onlv the 

 artifacts discovered but also the progress of the work of excava- 

 tion and the various burials and finds in situ. 



The society is to be congratulated on the quality of the work 

 being accomplished by its able curator. These monographs 

 show what the character of future explorations and excavations 

 in our state must be if we are to reap the full benefit of the rich 

 archaeological material within our boundaries. The old, hap- 

 hazard method of digging a trench or hole into a mound was of 

 little value and usually gave wrong or imperfect impressions of 

 the actual nature of the works investigated. It would be an 

 unfortunate circumstance if lack of funds w^ere to hinder the 

 further progress of the work and it is to be hoped that the society 

 will obtain the proper financial assistance to enable Prof. Mills 

 to carry on these investigations on a much larger scale in the 

 future than has been possible in the past. 



J. H. S. 



MEETING OF THE BIOLOGICAL CLUB. 



Orton Hall, April 7, 1907. 



The April meeting of the Biological Club was called to order 

 by the president in Orton Hall. 



The paper of the evening was read by Professor Kellerman 

 on his trip to Guatemala. He showed a map of the country, 

 also stating that it is about one and one-half times as large as 

 the state of Ohio. 



Many of the volcanoes of the country were visited. These 

 are from eight thousand to thirteen thousand feet high and built 

 up of cinders and ash. The vegetation is dense near the base 

 with a bald cone at the top. 



The flora near the top of the difterent volcanoes is quite sim- 

 ilar; but that inside the craters differs somewhat. 



Mr. Hambleton gave some observations he had made on the 

 yellow-bellied sap-sucker making holes into a maple tree and 

 drinking the sap. 



J. N. Frank, Secretary. 



Date of Publication, June 1, 1907. 



