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three miles and a half. At one point within the " old fort," in 

 front of the gateway to the " isthmus," was found a burial place 

 where a number of skeletons lay as though thrown together, not 

 carefully and separately buried. The suggestion is strongly made 

 that this spot marks an unsuccessful attack by enemies, who were 

 roughly buried where they fell. At other points graves have 

 been found, some containing copper implements and overlaid witS 

 plates of mica. Great regret was felt that Mr. TV. K. Moorehead, 

 who has explored so extensively here and in the vicinity and has 

 published such interesting accounts of Fort Ancient and similar 

 remains, was unable to be at the meeting on account of severe 

 illness. 



The public spirit that has secured this spot for the State, and 

 the work of the Ohio Archseological Society in caring for it prop- 

 erly, are matters for pride and congratulation, and evidences of 

 the highest type of civilization. The society is clearing away the 

 dense vmdergrowth so as to display the works and the trees upon 

 them; is guarding and repairing the walls at points where injury 

 has occurred by " washing " ; has sunk a well in the " old fort," with 

 fine water; and built a pavilion for visitors. Here lunch was 

 served to the party, and addresses given by archaeologists present 

 and officers of the Archaeological Society. 



On Thursday a large number of the geologists spent most of 

 the day in examining moraines and glacial phenomena near Lan- 

 caster, and in the evening nearly the entire association was taken 

 by special train to see the gas-wells in the same neighborhood, at 

 Sugar Grove, which were lighted and " blown off " for their bene- 

 fit. The city of Columbus itself is to a considerable extent sup- 

 plied with natural gas. 



Turning to the proceedings of the meeting, there may be noted 

 in the character of the papers certain tendencies which are inde- 

 pendent of the association and belong to the general line of 

 thought of the present, and doubtless yet more of the future. The 

 papers presented may be roughly grouped into two classes: those 

 relating to technical details, and those involving or seeking prac- 

 tical results and applications. Of course, there is no conflict be- 

 tween these two lines of thought and work — the latter, to be 

 really attained being dependent upon the former — but there is this 

 tendency distinctly shown, to consider scientific questions in their 

 bearing on the welfare or the needs of humanity. ISTaturally, this 

 aspect appeared more clearly in some of the sections than in others, 

 but no one who looks over the titles in the daily programmes can 

 fail to note it. The whole work of Section I (Social and Eco- 

 nomic Science) is of this character, and it is marked in Sections G 



