^8 bAVENPORT A(JADEM-5f OP NATURAL SCIElSfCJ^S. 



miles on eacli side as regularly as if artificially constructed. I 

 inclose a sketch map [Fig. 3] showing their topography. The re- 

 mains are small piles of stone set at regular distances, sometimes 

 connected by a low cobble-stone wall i\ow all in ruins, and notice- 

 able onlv from their regular ridge-like form. Occasionally we 

 find stone circles, stone mounds, though very small, but all regu- 

 larly disposed on an uniformly conceived plan. In Idaho Terri- 

 tory we found some low stone mounds on the toj) of numerous high 

 hills and mountains, but they represcnit no prt^sent use, except to 

 mark signal stations, or occasionally a lone grave covered with the 

 surroundino- detritus and rounded boulders. 



At a meeting of tlie Trustees, field July 30tli, 1879, it was voted to charge 

 an admission fee of 10 cents for adults and 5 cents for children to all persons 

 visiting the museum except members. 



September 26th, 18T0. — RE(iui.AR Meeting. 

 Dr. C. C. Parry, Vice President, in the chair. Twelve members 



present. 



Dr. S. H. Drake, West Union, Iowa, and Dr. C. C. Bradley, Man- 

 chester, Iowa, were elected corresponding members. 



Dr. Parry made some remarks on the cause of hay fever, which has 

 been attributed to a certain weed {AvihroKla urterniKlafo/iH) by peo- 

 ple in Wisconsin and Illinois. 



Mr. Pratt stated that Mr. Gass had recently exj)lored a mound near 

 Edo-ington, 111., in which was found a roughly-shaped copper " axe," a 

 flint arrowhead, and a pipe of the usual mound builders' jjattern, 

 carved to reiiiesent some animal — apparently a seal or a porcupine. 



Mr. Pratt presented the following notes : 



Explorations of Mounds at Albany, 111. 



I?V W. II. PRATT. 



Having learned that some explorations had recently been made ui 

 the mounds at Albany, Whiteside county. 111., 1 recently visited that 

 l)lace to leai'n the particulars. 



I found that Mr. C. A. Dodge and some friends had opened throve 

 of the mounds on the hill and some in the low ground of the group 



