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August JO, 1884. — Adjourned Meeting. 



President Fulton in the chair; a large number present. 



The Curator reported the donation of three boxes and one barrel of 

 mound relics, from Arkansas, by Capt. W. P. Hall; also a small col- 

 lection recently made by himself on the site of an ancient "Mandan 

 town," or settlement, about one mile below the present town of Le 

 Beau, Walworth County, Dakota, situated on the second terrace 

 above the Missouri River, and about a quarter of a mile distant from its 

 banks. The articles consisted of small, finely-worked flint and agate 

 implements, a few pieces of worked bone, and numerous flakes and 

 fragments of flint and moss-agates. 



Prof William H. Holmes, of Washington, D. C, being present, enter- 

 tained the meeting with interesting remarks upon the ceramic art in 

 North America in prehistoric times, as shown by the specimens in the 

 collections at Washington, Davenport, and elsewhere. 



September 7, 1884. — Special Meeting. 



President Fulton in the chair; six members present. 



The decease of Dr. R. J. Farquharson was announced, and, on mo- 

 tion, a committee on resolutions was appointed, consisting of James 

 Thompson, C. E. Harrison, and Dr. C. H. Preston, to report at a 

 future meeting. This committee was instructed to request Dr. W. D. 

 Middleton to prepare a biographical sketch of Dr. Farquharson for 

 publication in the Academy proceedings. 



The following message was drawn up for immediate transmission by 

 telegraph : 



To Mrs. Lydia Farquharson and Family, Des Moines, Iowa : 



The Academy of Sciences, in special meeting assembled, extends to you its con- 

 dolence and sympathy in your present great bereavement, fully recognizing our irre- 

 parable loss, and that of the scientific world. 



H. C. Fulton, President. 



W. H. Pratt, Cor. Secretary. 



September 16, 1884. — Special Meeting. 



President Fulton in the chair; ten members present. 



The President, H. C. Fulton, stated the object of the meeting to be 

 the reception of a report from the special committee appointed at the 

 regular meeting, August 29th, to consider the matter of Mr. Henshaw's 

 article in the second report of the Bureau of Ethnology, reflecting upon 

 the archaeological collections and collectors of the Davenport Academy ; 



