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Dr. W. M. Beauchamp gave an address entitled: 
ARCHEOLOGY. 
The speaker brought out the fact that this region was visited 
temporarily at least by the Esquimaux and the Mound Builders 
before the Indian came and made a permanent home here for him- 
self. Aboriginal implements may be classified as of chipped and 
polished stone, of bone, horn, shell, and copper. The Indian 
knew nothing of flint drills, and scrappers, stone spears, slate 
gorgets, stone tubes, and curious bird amulets. ‘These had be- 
come lost arts, showing an entire change in race before the Iro- 
quois and Algonquins came. The Onondagas did little work in 
stone, preferring to work in wood and bone. Their harpoons of 
bone have been found in large quantities near Brewerton. The 
difference between the Indian’s and the white man’s wampum 
was explained; many of the belts for which great antiquity is 
claimed belong to the latter class, and therefore the traditions 
concerning many of them are really mythical. 
OcTOBER 22, 1897. 
FOURTEENTH REGULAR MEETING. 
The president, Dr. C. W. Hareirt, in the chair. 
Twenty-six persons present. 
An invitation was extended to the Microscopical Society of 
America to hold its next annual meeting in Syracuse. 
Reports of summer’s work were presented by the various 
sections. 
NOVEMBER I9, 1897. 
FIFTEENTH REGULAR MEETING. 
The president, Dr. C. W. Harcirvt, in the chair. 
Forty-four persons present. 
Dr. Gaylord P. Clark gave an address entitled: 
THE SENSORY FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN. 
