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purpose of hibernating. It was brought to the Academy by 

 Mr. W. K. Smitli about a week ago. 



Tlie Librarian reported many vahiable additions to the 

 Library, received in exchange and by donation, and also the 

 deposit by W. H. Pratt of a very vahiable collection of Histor- 

 ical and Genealogical works. 



The Committee appointed to audit the accounts of the late 

 Treasurer, reported them correct. The report was accepted and 

 the committee discharged. 



Eev. J. S. Jenckes and Chas. M. Putnam were elected regular 

 members of the Academy. 



The following communication was received: 



Davenport, January 10th, 1877. 

 After receiving the final report of tlie Central Committee at the regular 

 meeting on January 9th, it was resolved : That the Davekport Turn 

 Vereinde deems it its duty to cordially thank the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences for their assistance at our fair of December last ; it was further 

 resolved : that we are under special obligations to those members thereof 

 whose untiring zeal and protracted manual labor in arranging specimens, 

 made the display of the Academy so interesting aud instructive. 

 For the Davenport Turn Gemeinde, 



Chas. K. Voss, Chr. Moller, 



First Secretary, First Speaker. 



To Academy of Natural Sciences^ Davenport, Iowa. 



A communication was read from the Kev. J. Gass, describing 

 the discovery on the 10th inst. of two inscribed tablets, in a re- 

 cent further excavation of the mound on Cook's farm near this 

 city, heretofore described in these Proceedings (Vol. I, p. 119, 

 and pi. I, fig. 3) as Mound No. 3, in which he was assisted by 

 Messrs. L. H. Willrodt and H. S. Stoltzenau.* These tablets 

 have been deposited in the Museum of the Academy- on the 

 same conditions with the former articles from this group of 

 mounds. The tablets were on exhibition, and much interest 

 was manifested in them by the members present. The larger 

 one was broken by a spade, but is otherwise perfect, and is cov- 

 ered on both sides with a large number of hieroglyphics and 



*This cornraunication has been included in a more complete and corrected descrijition of the 

 exploration of this mound, which Tvill be printed hereafter. 



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