15-1 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



The Treasurer reported that Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Pendleton, 

 of Cincinnati ; Rev. and Mrs. S. S. Hunting, of Davenport, 

 and Mr. Israel Hall, of Davenport, had paid their life member- 

 ship fees," and their names were ordered enrolled on the list of 

 life members. 



Mr. W. H. Pratt presented a brief report of the exploration of 

 another mound (No. 1) on Col. Allen's farm on the 30th of June. 

 It is the mound in which is set the flag-staff which is visible for 

 many miles both up and down the river. The mound was but 

 three feet in height and about thirty feet in diameter, and was 

 found to contain as many as eight skulls, and many bones, 

 probabl}' the whole or greater portion of that number of skele- 

 tons or more. The skulls were none of them sufficiently well 

 preserved to be secured without crumbling to pieces. The 

 bones were all much decomposed, and except in the case of a 

 few of the long bones, which were laid side by side, were much 

 scattered, and had evidently been buried without any order or 

 regularity, as is more frequently the case than otherwise in all 

 our mounds. About two feet from the surface were a number 

 of rather large, flat, rough limestones, irregularly placed, and 

 seeming to have no relation to anything else in the mound. Six 

 flint implements were obtained, several of which were placed 

 immediately beneath the long bones above referred to. About 

 three feet from the center was a quantity of fragments of pot- 

 tery, of the form and style of ornamentation usually found, 

 and near these a quantity of charred human bones. 



August 10th, 1877.— Historical Section. 



J. A. Crandall in the chair. 



Ten members present. 



Ten volumes of the "Documents of the Colonial History of 

 New York," and two volumes of the "Documentary History 

 of New York," were donated by Mr. C. E. Putnam. 



Mr. H. C. Fulton read the first chapters of his contemplated 

 work on the history of Davenport, giving a description of the 

 place while still in the hands of the Indians ; of the troubles 

 \\^hicli gave rise to the Blackhawk war, and of the first settle- 

 ments made by the whites. 



