Il6 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Scott County — Continued. 



color and texture like medium-burnt brick for 30 inches. Then 

 charred human remains 6 to 18 inches. Then undisturbed loess, 

 imbedded in which a very few decomposed, unburnt bones. No 

 implements of any kind. 



Considered by Tiffany a cremation furnace. 3^ 



Cleona Township. Gass ^^' ^7> describes engraved stones im- 

 bedded in a creek twenty-two miles west of Davenport. Five in 

 all ; two were brought to the Academy. The others were removed 

 later. The very large one left is not particularly important. 



{a). Very dark colored, hard, heavy, coarse greenstone. Ir- 

 regular ; it bears a human head, a quadruped, a bird, a human 

 form, parts of human face and form, some unrecognizable marks. 



(/^). Same material ; almost regular oval form ; twice the size 

 of a man's head. Cut in sharp grooves is a human face. 



{c). Same material ; smaller ; a few scratches or irregular 

 lines. 



id). Weighs 100 pounds or more. Very hard, light-colored 

 quartzite ; an uncouth human head on one side, a rude tree on 

 the other. 



There are mounds near by. A copper implement was found 

 among the stones two years earlier. 



In the various articles regarding Scott County mounds pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings of the Academy are figures showing 

 construction and arrangement. The.se cuts have been loaned to 

 other authors and some have not been returned. As the full 

 series can not be published here all are withheld. (f. s.) 



NOTES UPON SCOTT COUNTY SPECIMENS. 



Physical Anthropology. — The bones from the Cook Farm 

 Mounds were usually too badly decomposed for preservation. 

 From Mound 2 were removed two fragments of skulls — only 

 frontal bones, with nasal bones attached. Farquharson 55 says 

 these indicate a highly-arched nose. From No. g came a skull 

 fairly preserved. It gave the following measurements: Horizon- 

 tal circumference, 19.5; long diameter, 7; transverse diameter, 

 5.25; capacity, cubic inches, 76.2; distance oi foramen mag- 

 num, 1.8; ratio of distance, 0.269; ratio of diameters, 0.752. 



