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DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Df:cember 28th, 1878. — Regular Meeting. 



Dr. R. J. Farqiiharson, President, in the Chair. 



Twenty persons present. 



The reports of the Corresponding Secretary and Curator were 

 presented, and the thanks of the Academy were voted to the 

 donors to the Library and Museum. 



Dr. C. F. Waldron, Brush Creek, Iowa, and Prof. H. A. 

 Ward, Rochester, K. Y., were elected corresponding members. 



Fii;. Hi, two-thirds natural 8ize. 



Two carved stone pipes, recently obtained by Mr. Gass, were 

 exhibited. One of them (Fig. 22) evidently represents a bear, 

 and the other (Fig. 23) an elephant, though both are con- 

 siderably out of proportion, the bear being too tall, and the ele- 



Fi". 23, two-thirds natural size. 



phant too long and slender. The bear pipe was found by some 

 German farmers, in a mound in Muscatine County, Iowa. The 



