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oughly. An opening of five by ten feet was made. The surface 

 was a layer of hard clay, about one and a half feet thick. Beneath 

 this layer, which exhibited here and there the effects of fire, we 

 found a layer of red burned clay, about as hard as a rather soft- 

 burned brick. This layer was of an oval form, five feet in the 

 shortest diameter, one foot thick in the center, and gradually di- 

 minishing to three inches at the circumference. Under this was a 

 bed of ashes thirteen inches deep in the middle and also gradually 

 diminishing to the edges, where it terminated, with the burned 

 clay above. Not a single fragment (^f bone was discovered, but 

 Mr. Haas found in his former examination of this mound a few 

 fragments of human teeth. In the midst of this bed of ashes, a 

 few inches above the bottom, were found a portion of a broken 

 carved stone pipe, bird form, by Mr. F. Haas, and a very small 

 copper axe by Mr. Gass, both of which articles are now in the 

 Academy Museum; also a carved stone pipe, entire and represent- 

 ing an elephant, which was first discovered by myself, and which I 

 hereby have the pleasure of presenting to the Archaeological de- 

 partment of the Academy Museum. 



The work was continued by Mr. Gass. 



Respectfully submitted, 

 ' Rev. Ad. Blumer. 



Geneseo, 111., March 27th, 1880. 



May 14th, 1 880. — Historical Section. 



Five persons present. 



Mr. Pratt reported that Mr. Howard Burtis had donated to the 

 Academy the hotel registers of the Burtis House from 1872 to 1875. 



May 28th, 1880. — Regular Meeting. 



The President, Mr. W. H. Pratt, in the chair. Eleven members 

 present. 



Miss Nellie W. Merriman, Jackson, Mich., and Mr. J. Q. Wing, 

 Davenport, were elected regular members. 



A letter was read from Mr. Robert Clarke, of Cincinnati, describing 

 an inscribed stone recently found in Ohio, and sending a photograph 

 of the same. 



