Davenport, Iowa, February 6th, 1885. 



At the regular monthly meeting of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 held on Friday evening, January 30th, 1881^, Dr. C. H. Preston offered the follow- 

 ing resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: 



Whereas, The Second Annual Report of the L'nited States Bureau of Eth- 

 nology contains an unjust and gratuitous attack upon the honor and good faith of 

 this Academy and some of its members, calling in question the genuineness of cer- 

 tain articles in its museum ; and. 



Whereas, Such attacks must tend to impair and destroy the usefulness of such 

 collections and to discourage earnest and faithful workers in their disinterested 

 labors; therefore. 



Resolved, That justice and the interests of science imperatively demand a com- 

 plete refutation of these charges, and vindication of the character of the parties 

 attacked, and especially of our honored associate, Rev. J. Gass; and. 



Resolved, That the following paper, prepared by Mr. C. E. Putnam, and, as we 

 are fully satisfied, representing the whole matter in all truth and fairness, be adopted 

 as our reply to the article in question; and. 



Resolved, That copies of said paper be ]jublished immediately, under the 



direction of the Academy Publication Committee, in pamphlet form, corresponding 

 with the Proceedings, and that the .same be distributed, as far as possible, to parties 

 who receive the above-mentioned Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, and to all 

 known archsological associations, and to individual collectors and explorers, and to 

 all publishers and writers on the subject, and that a record be kept of all parties to 

 whom it has been sent. 



The above resolutions are correctly transcribed from the records of the Academy, 

 and the .same will appear in Volume V. of its published Proceedings. 



L. M. Pratt, Recording Secrelary. 



