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DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



July 26th, 1878. — Regular Meeting. 



Dr. R. J. Farquharson, President, in the chair. 



Nine members present. 



A "large number of donations to the Museum and Library 

 were reported by the Curator, and the thanks of the Academy 

 were voted to the donors. A collection of over 2,000 flint and 

 stone implements, collected in Mississippi, were received from 

 Capt. W. P. Hall. The Rev. J. Gass, through Mr. Pratt, and 

 in the name of his daughter. Flora Gass, formally presented to 

 the Academy the inscribed tablets of bituminous shale found in 

 the mound known and described as Mound No. 3 of the Cook 

 Farm Group, January 10th, 1877, and the inscribed limestone 

 tablet found in the mound known as Mound No. 11 of the same 

 group, January 30th, 1878. Also, on behalf and in the name of 

 his daughter, Emma Gass, the small carved figure of an animal, 

 with pieces of crystal set in for eyes (Figs. 18 and 19), found at 

 Mound No. 3 above mentioned. These donations are made sub- 

 ject to the following conditions, viz: 1st. That these articles 

 are not to be disposed of by sale, exchange, or donation, but 

 are to remain perpetually in the Museum of the Academy. 2d. 

 They are not to be made or held liable in any way for any debts 

 or obligations of the Academy. 3d. In case of the dissolution 

 of the Academy, these collections are to be transferred to the 

 Archaeological collection of the United States National Museum. 



Mr. Pratt presented the following note on a 



Curious Relic from the Cook Farm [Figs. 18 and 19.] 



The "small carved fig- 

 ure of an animar' men- 

 tioned in the donation of 

 Mr. Gass, was found in 

 the spring of 1877, while 

 plowing over mound No. 

 3, from whence it may 

 have been thrown out 



during the explorations Fig- is— Side view, natural size. 



earlier in the 5'ear. It is a natural sandstone concretion, firmly attached, 

 and almost central upon a flat, thin piece of light brown flint, forming a 

 base as perfectly adapted to the figure as if by special design. The ani- 



