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A paper on " Lastarricea" was presented by Dr. Parry and referred 

 to the Publication Committee. 



November 2j, 1886. — Trustees' Meeting. 



President C. E. Putnam in the chair; ten members present. 



Mrs. Putnam reported an effort on her part to raise an annual sub- 

 scription of $400 a year, for five years, to provide for the support of 

 the Academy, and obviate repeated appeals to the public. 



On morion, it was voted that Mrs. Putnam's plan for providing an 

 annual support fund has the approbation of the Trustees. 



A course of lectures or parlor meetings by home talent was proposed, 

 and Mr. Phelps and Major McClelland were appointed a committee of 

 arrangements. 



On motion, the thanks of the Academy were voted to Mr. Kuhnen 

 for the donation of a stove. 



November 27, 1886. — Adjourned Meeting. 



President C. E. Putnam in the chair; nine members present. 



Curator reported the receipt of a barrel and several boxes from 

 Captain Hall, containing mound pottery, stone implements, and a Dum- 

 ber of human skulls. 



Mr. Harrison read the report, prepared by Mr. Pratt and himself, of 

 the mound explorations made by them at Toolesboro. October 18th. 

 resulting in the finding of but few relics, among which were human 

 bones in a bad state of preservation, one skull, and the frontal bone of 

 another, remarkably fiat, a finely carved, smooth, and symmetrical 

 curved base pipe, and some turtle shell fragments bearing artificial 

 markings. 



Mr. Pratt read a translation, made by Mr. Riepe and himself, of an 

 interesting and valuable paper by Dr. Max Chle, of Dresden, read 

 before the Berlin Anthropological Society, entitled "Concerning the 

 Elephant Carvings in America."' Dr. Chle reviewed the attack on the 

 Academy of Sciences made by the Bureau of Ethnology, and discussed 

 the co-existence of man and mastodon on the western continent, giv- 

 ing strong support to the affirmative theory. On motion of Mr. C. E. 

 Harrison, it was resolved that the thanks of the Academy be tendered 

 Mr. Max Uhle for his paper, and for the strong support given to the 

 position of the Academy. 



Mr. H. A. Pilsbry read by title a paper entitled "Notes on a Collec- 

 tion of Texan Mollusca," which was referred to the Publication Com- 

 mittee. 



