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I asked, "are there so many conch shells arouiul these phices?" 

 "They ate them as we do oysters; why, out in the woods there was 

 a pile twenty feet high, but they have hauled many of them away to 

 build up the roads. The different tribes and the Spanish would flght, 

 and if you will go down to where the Flint and Chattahooche rivers 

 fork and enter the woods, you will discover these mounds thrown up 

 and will lind skulls perforated by bullets; I have found them myself." 



One of the colored men found an earthen jar last fall. He thought 

 there was money in it, but tinding none he left it in disgust. lie said 

 it would hold about two gallons. 



I am going to get some one to direct me to these places when I can 

 leave, and I will do all that I can to examine them. 



The Secretary iinnouncecl the following correspon- 

 dence : — 



From the BiiflEalo Historical Society, Jan. 22 ; a circular of the Chicago Academy 

 of Sciences, an account of the loss of its building, collections, librarj', etc., in the 

 great fire of O.-t. 9. 1S71 ; Maine Historical Society. Jan. ; New England Historic- 

 Genealogical .Society, .Jan. 22; New York Historical Society, .Jan. 22; F. D. W. 

 French, Boston, Feb. 3; Charles B. Moore, New York. Jan. 30; Feb. 1; S. A. Nel- 

 son, Georgetown, .Jan. 16, 23; James Kiker, Waverly, N. Y., Jan. 16. 



The Librarian reported the following additions : — 



By Donation. 



BOLI.ES, E. C. Portland Directory for 18G9. 1 vol. Svo. 



Brooks, Mrs. H. M. Woman's Journal for 1871. 



Butler, B.F., M. C. Conkling's Speech in U. S. Senate, Jan. 11, 1872. Report 

 of the Department ot Agriculture for Jan., 1872. 



Freke Hen'RY. The Dependence of Life on Decomposition, by H. Freke. Svo 

 pampli. Dublin, 1871. 



Green, S. A., of Boston. Miscellaneous jiamplilets, 4. 



Laxgworthy, I. P. Catalogues of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary for ia38-9, 

 l&W-l, ia56-7. 



Perkins, Jonathan C. Catalogue of Amherst College, 1871-2. Exercises at the 

 Semi-centennial of Amherst College, July 12, 1871. 



Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry'. 

 Transactions of 18.5.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 60, 1,2,3, 4, 5. 6, 7, 8, 9, 70. 16 pamphlets. Svo. 



RoBiNSO.v, John. Railway Times. 150 nos. Jliscellaneous pamphlets, .50. 



Ropes, Wm. L., of jVnUover. Catalogue of Andover Theological Seminary, 

 1871-72. 



St. John & Coffin of New Y'rk. The Cabin Book; or National Characteristics 

 by Chas. Sealsfleld. 1 vol. 12mo. 



Sumner, Chas., U. S. Sen. Land Office Report for 1869. 1 vol. Svo. Washing- 

 ton, 1870. 



By Exchange. 



BiBLiOTiifeQUE Universelle et Revue SUISSE. Archives des Sciences phys- 

 iques et natureUes, Dec. 15, 1871. No. 168. Svo. pamph. Geneve. 1871. 



