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sketches and estimates of cost. The design representing a female fill- 

 ing the lamp of science, surrounded by the legend "Davenport Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences. Incorporated MDCCCLXVIII." the whole 

 in a circle 4.5 cm. in diameter, was adopted. 



Dr. Adella R. Nichol was elected to regular membership. 



April 26, i8(^s- — Regular Meeting. 



President Hammatt in the chair; four members present. 



The Curator reported the receipt of aboriginal relics from Florida, 

 donated by Clarence B. Moore; also of some beautiful specimens of 

 corals and shells, in glass cases, donated by Mrs. W. C. Wadsworth. 



Fred P. Bemis and Dr. Joseph A. Daniel were elected to regular 

 membership. 



May ji, i8g5. — Regular Meeting. 



President Hammatt in the chair; eight members present. 



Mrs. Putnam reported the receipt of a bequest to the Academy of 

 ^10,000, which would become available in about a year. 



The Curator reported the receipt from Dr. S. C. Bowman of several 

 boxes containing many interesting additions to the Museum. K vote 

 of thanks was extended to the doctor for his valuable donations. 



Charles E. Sheriff was elected to regular membership. 



Professor Frederick Starr, being present, spoke at some length on 

 the subject of " Archaeological Research." The same evening Prof. 

 Starr delivered a lecture at the First Presbyterian Church on the sub- 

 ject, "Whence Came the North American Indian?" Those who at- 

 tended were greatly interested in the professor's presentation of the 

 subject. He first gave a description of the Indians of the far North- 

 west from Vancouver's Island to Sitka, and to the north of that place. 

 He stated that while the tribes, of which there are a great many, re- 

 semble each other in what they eat and wear, in their general manner 

 of living, and in their physical characteristics, they have seven totally 

 different languages — as dissimilar as are the French and German, or 

 the German and Finnish of Europe, which whole continent has but 

 four different language stocks. Their stories, too, are entirely differ- 

 ent. In the north they all center about the raven as the great power 

 which has figured most conspicuously in their ancient or mythical his- 

 tory; further south the mink is the special object about which their 

 songs are sung, while in the southern tribes nothing is heard of the 



