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Museum— \V. H. Pratt, Dr. C. C. Parry, J. D. Putnam, Kev. J. Gass, 

 J. G. Haupt, Prof. D. S. Sheldon, Capt. W. P. Hall, A. S. Tiffany. 



Library— B,e\. S. S. Hunting, Dr. C. C. Parry, John Hume. 



Furnishing—Mrs. M. A. Sanders, Mrs. C. E. Putnam, Dr. M. B. 

 Cochran. 



Special Committee on Ways and Means— Mrs. C. E. Putnam, Mrs. Jen- 

 nie S. True, Walker Adams, Israel Hall, A. Burdick. 



Febr'y 15th, 1878. — Geological and Arch^ological Section. 



E.ev. W. H. Barris in tlie chair. 



Twelve members present. 



Mr. W. H. Pratt reported that on the 15th of December, 

 18Y7, in company with Rev. Mr. Gass, he had opened a low 

 mound by the side of the river road, on the farm of Mr. Heidt, 

 some distance below Rockingham. It was about a half-meter 

 high and the elevation was composed principally of stone. Under 

 these stones they found the usual mixed earth and a few poorly 

 preserved bones, and two flint arrow heads were all the relics 

 found. They went to the depth of about one meter from the 

 surface of the mound. 



Mr. John Hume reported that on the morning of January 

 30th he had made some further examination of Mound No. 4, 

 Cook's Farm group, but without finding any article of interest. 

 He stated, however, that he found much in this mound to con- 

 firm his previous views that the mounds were the remains of 

 dwellings rather than places of sepulchre. 



Mr. Gass presented the following account of 



Mound Explorations in Jackson County, Iowa. 



The substance of a few communications received from friends in 

 Jackson county about the explorations of mounds which they have exe- 

 cuted at my request and advice, is herewith respectfully submitted as a 

 report thereof, together with the notice of the discovery of a skeleton , 

 and of some copper relics in the same vicinity. 



I. 



On Mr. Heisig's farm in Jackson County, in an open level field, are 

 found three mounds, which are so situated as to form the points of a 

 nearly equi-lateral triangle. All three mounds are of the same construc- 

 tion. Each one is three feet high, and the diameter is fifteen feet at the 

 base, (a) The first mound consists only of a hard mixed soil down to 

 a depth of five feet (that is two feet below the surrounding surface) to 



