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ters, the only classification which can be of practical value to 

 the student. 



Mr. Riggs, by invitation, spoke of his explorations among the 

 Indian mounds of Missouri and Arkansas. He stated that they 

 seemed more numerous than in the Ohio Valley and that the pot- 

 tery found in them showed more artistic decorations. 



Dr. A. E. Heighway, Jr. had noticed hundreds of mounds in 

 South Carolina, ranged in crescent shape along the hill sides. 

 Arrow heads were abundant, but he saw no pottery. 



Mr. Skinner called the attention to the cast of a piece of sculp- 

 ture, found in a Florida mound. It was of a human head and had 

 been described by Dr. Forbes in the Toledo Blade as a "Cleopatra" 

 from its close resemblance to the Egyptian type. 



■ Dr. Langdon replying to Mr. Riggs' question, whether pottery 

 was generally found with mound skeletons, said that such is '.he 

 case, the pottery being placed by the head or shoulder. 



Donations were announced as follows : 



From Prof. S. A. Forbes, Pamphlet, ' The Lake as a Micro- 

 cosm"; from F. W. Putnam, Pamphlet "Conventionalism in An- 

 cient American Art"; from Publishers Scientific American, Scien- 

 tific American Supplement. 



August 2d, 1887. 



Regular Scientific meeting; seven members present. 



No quorum — no meeting. 



The members present spent the evening pleasantly, in looking 

 over a copy of the folio edition of Audobon's Birds of America, 

 loaned the Society by Mr. J. R. Skinner. 



The donation book showed the following additions to the So- 

 ciety's property, as follows: 



Donations: From J. B. Lovell, specimens of Cannel Coal; 

 from J. E. Buchanan, Sterling, Col., opalized wood; from Prof. J. 

 M. F. Snodgrass, iron ore; from Dr. O. D. Norton, stone imple- 

 ments; from Prof. J. M. Nickles, Fossils of Cincinnati Group; 

 from Dr. S. S. Scoville, fossils of Cincinnati Group, Stone Axe; 

 from Dr. C. L. Armstrong, fac-simile of Sir Walter Scott's Monu- 

 ment. 



September 6 1887. 

 Regular Scientific meeting. 



Seventeen members present; 2nd Vice President James in the 

 chair. 



