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would propose also, that it sliould be submitted to the American 

 ambassador resident in Berlin. To provide for the event of death, I 

 shall assign the work to the latter. When one-eighth of the work 

 shall be completed, I propose that the Smithsonian Institution pay over 

 to me, through the American ambassador, one-eighth of $2,500. I 

 will submit the manuscript to the American ambassador, who will 

 return it to me for the systematic classification. 



The manuscript will be completed after a thorough investigation of 

 the libraries of Berlin, Munich, Vienna, London, Paris, Stockholm, 

 the Hague, Brussels, Geneva, Milan and the United States. I shall 

 be allowed the privilege, if desirable, to employ a competent person 

 for the purpose of consulting and making abstracts from the various 

 American publications. The work will be printed on good paper in 

 one of the first German establishments, and be inscribed as a publi- 

 cation of the Smithsonian Institution. Every two months a report of 

 the progress of the work will be made to the Institution, by means of 

 which a proper judgment may be formed of its proceeding. The sale 

 of copies in Europe will cover the expense of printing. 



It is only by means of such a work that a scientific person would 

 be able to execute a complete encyclopedia, such as Leibnitz proposed 

 to the academies. Access to such a publication can alone enable a 

 man to discover whether he has all- the material of his particular 

 department, 



[The Koyal Society of London has undertaken to make a general 

 index of all the transactions of learned societies, which will consist of 

 about 250,000 separate titles. It will afford one of the most important 

 means of facilitating the advance of science which has been produced 

 during the present century, and it is to be hoped that provision will be 

 made for a distribution of copies of this work at a small cost to every 

 part of the civilized world, J. H.J 



ACCOUNT OF ANTIQUITIES FEOM KENTUCKY. 



BY S. S. LYON. 



I have in my collection a few articles of antiquity, which may be of 

 general interest ; should they be deemed of sufficient importance by 

 you, and should you signify your desire, I will pack them up, and 

 send them to the Smithsonian Institution as a donation.* That you 

 may be able to understand what I propose to contribute, I shall give 

 you such an account of them, and a few of the facts in relation thereto, 

 as will fall into the compass of a page or two. 



Three miles south of Raleigh, Union county, Kentucky, is the place 



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* TheBe articles are now in the Smithsonian museum. 



