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Donations to the Museum and Library were reported, and a 

 vote of thanks was tendered to the donors. 



Mr. Leo Shumacher was elected a regular member. Several 

 names were presented for membership. 



Rev. Mr. Gass presented a brief account, given by Mr. Alir- 

 man, of Pleasant Yalley, of a curious relic found by him in 

 digging a post hole where was formerly an Lidian village. It 

 was of a material resembling yellow clay, but as hard as stone. 

 It was a very smoothly carved, though rude and incomplete, 

 representation of the human form, and six inches in length. 

 The face was very distinctly carved, the forehead very fiat, the 

 hands were resting on the chest, lower limbs not carved out. 



Mr. Gass also presented the following communication : 



To the Davenport Academu of Natural Sciences : 



Believing that specimens of scientific interest will be much more val- 

 uable and useful in a public museum than when scattered, and finding 

 that heretofore some specimens stored away by the workmen for the 

 Academy, had been taken for private collections, and did not reach the 

 Academy at all, Mr. F. Fangmeier, foreman at Mr. Schmidt's quarry 

 below the city, has, with the concurrence of Mr. Schmidt himself, com- 

 municated to me the following offer and promise, viz : 



" All petrifactions and other valuable mineral specimens found in our 

 quarry will, hereafter, no longer be collected for private purposes, but 

 only for the benefit of the Davenport Academy of Xatural Sciences, and 

 will be delivered only to such persons as may be authorized by the Acad- 

 to receive them." 



Mr. Fangmeier wishes that the above determination may be kindly re- 

 ceived by every one, and strictly respected. 



On motion the proposition was accepted, with a vote of thanks 

 to Messrs. Schmidt and Fangmeier, and Messrs. Pratt and Gass 

 were appointed to receive such specimens. 



The following papers were read and discussed : 



A Recent Find of Skulls and Skeletons in Ohio. 



BY KEY. S. D. PEET, ASHTABULA, OHIO. 



To the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences : 



Sirs : — I desu-e to call your attention to a recent find of skulls and 

 skeletons. 



In Columbia, about twenty miles from Springfield, Ohio, there is an ele- 

 vation which overlooks the bottom land of the Lagonda River. This ele- 

 vation is formed by a gravel bank of the drift period, as it rests on the 



