iNSTiTtTT HiSTOEiQUE, Taris. L' Invcstigateur. 40 Ann^e, No. 5, 1874. 



Soci6t6 d' Agriculture, d' Histoire Naturelle et des arts Utiles, 

 Lton. Annales, 4e S6i'ie. Tomes iv, v, 1871-72. 2 pamphlets. 



SocifiTl^; Linneenne, Lton. Annales. Tome xx. 1873. 



Phtsikalisch-medicinisciie Gesellschaft, WiJRznuRG. Verhandlungen, 

 Neue Folge, Bd. viii. 1-2 Heft. 1874. 



Zoologische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt. Zool. Garten xv, Jahrg. Nos. 

 1-6, 1874. 



Publishers. American Naturalist. Forest and Stream. Gloucester Telegraph. 

 Haverhill Gazette. Ipswich Chronicle. Lawrence American. Lynn Reporter. 

 Lynn Transcript. Medical and Surgical Reporter. Nation. Nature. Peabody 

 Press. Salem Observer. Salem Post. Sailor's Magazine and Seaman's Friend. 



Donations to the cabinets were announced from George 

 L. Peabody, of New York City, a rare and valuable 

 Japanese gold obang; from Louis F. Erailio, gold bearing 

 quartz from the Vulture Mine, Arizona, and from Charles 

 T. Jenkins, gold bearing quartz from Ophir Hill, Grass 

 Valley District, Nevada County, Cal. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam, of the committee appointed at a 

 previous meeting to prepare a memorial for action of 

 the Institute in relation to a proposed State Topographi- 

 cal, Geological and Biological Survey, reported the same, 

 which was referred to the directors, with authority to act. 



ARCH^OLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN KENTUCKY. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam gave an account of some of his 

 recent archaological investigations in Kentucky, made 

 with the assistance furnished b}^ the Peabody Museum of 

 Archaeology and Ethnology at Cambridge, while he was 

 engaged as Ichthyologist of the Kentucky State Geologi- 

 cal Survey, of which Prof. Shaler is chief. 



Confining his remarks to researches made in the caves, 

 and in connection with a peculiar form of burial in cir- 

 cular graves, he first exhibited a number of skulls and 

 other bones found under various conditions, and described 

 the peculiarities of each group, comparing them with 



