Porter.] gQ [April. 



Stated Meeting, April T, 1865. 



Present, fourteen members. 



Dr. Wood, President, in the Chair. 



A letter accepting membership was received from Dr. G. 

 Smith, dated Oxford, February 16, 1865. 



A photograph likeness of Col. J. D. Graham was received, 

 dated March 28, 1865. 



A letter inclosing a photograph of casts of Indian hiero- 

 glyphics cut in the rocks at Safe Harbor, on the Susque- 

 hanna, was received from Prof. T. C. Porter, of Lancaster, 

 dated April 1, 1865. 



"I inclose much reduced photographic copies of figures carved by 

 the Indians on two gneissic rocks (A and B), in the Susquehanna 

 river, below the dam at Safe Harbor, Lancaster County, Pa., drawn 

 from casts in plaster, taken under the auspices of the Linnsean 

 Society of Lancaster County, in the autumn of 1863 and the summer 

 of 1864. The casts are boxed up and ready for sending to the 

 Smithsonian Institution. The largest figure is over three feet in 

 length. When the season arrives, we will secure for you a full set 

 of casts in plaster, from which accurate drawings can be made. 



In the month of September, 1863, the existence of figures chiselled 

 out by the red men of our stone period on certain rocks in the Sus- 

 quehanna River became known to the Linnsean Society of Lancaster 

 County, and a committee was appointed, with the president, Prof. 

 T.. C. Porter, as chairman, to visit those rocks and obtain casts of 

 the figures in plaster. The work was begun and carried on during 

 the month of October, but not completed till the summer of 1864, 

 the rocks being accessible only at a low stage of the water. Draw- 

 ings on a greatly reduced scale were made from the casts by IMr. 

 Jacob Stauffer, and photographic copies, still more reduced, by Mr. 

 W. Gill, members of the Society. Those under the letter A belong 

 to the larger rock, and those under B to the smaller one. The 

 intention is to furnish the American Philosophical Society with a 

 full set of casts, in order that a permanent record may be secured in 

 their Transactions. Search for the implements used in cutting out 



