TRANSACTIONS. 



Seventy-Second Regular Meeting, November 6, 1883. 



Colonel Garrick Mallery, President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary reported for the Curator the receipt of fifty- 

 three gifts of publications since the last meeting in May. 



On motion of Col. Seely, the Society passed a vote of thanks 

 to the gentlemen who had donated the publications above referred 

 to. 



The retiring President, Major J. W. Powell, then read his ad- 

 dress entitled "Human Evolution."* 



Seventy-Third Regular Meeting, November 20, 1883. 



Colonel Garrick Mallery, President, in the Chair. 



The election of Dr. Charles Warren, of the Bureau of Education, 

 and Mr. S. H. Knuffman, as active members, was announced.' 



In the absence of Mr. L. A. Kengla, his paper, entitled " Stone 

 Mounds and Graves in Hampshire County, West Virginia," f 

 was read by Prof. O. T. Mason. 



abstract. 



The mounds or graves described in this paper are found on 

 the eastern side of the South Branch Mountain, Hampshire Co., 

 W. Va., about one mile and a half from the mouth of the South 

 Branch, on the property of Charles French. This entire region 

 was once held by the Massawomec Indians, and the locality 

 under consideration was the hunting ground of the Tamenents. 



* Published in Vol. 11, Transactions Anthropological Society, Washington, 

 pp. 176-208. 



f Published in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 188.^, pp. 

 86S-S72. 



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