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been long sustained with the support of strong State archaeological societies. 
The publications and scientific achievements of these organizations are well 
known. It remains now for the States mentioned above to work up their 
territory to give us a comprehensive view of prehistoric man in the upper 
Mississippi Valley. 
II. Organization. 
It is proposed (1) that the Legislature of the several States be requested 
to appropriate the necessary funds for the Survey and for the issuing of the 
State Archaeological Atlas and Report; (2) that the interest and coopera- 
tion of citizens, appropriate scientific and historical organizations within 
the several States be enlisted: (3) that in the absence of a more suitable 
agency within a given State, the Survey be organized under the Direction 
of the State Geological Survey: (4) that in order to secure a uniformity of 
results and to insure a requisite scientific standard in the work of 
the different State Surveys, the National Research Council will, if invited 
to do so, appoint a committee from its personnel to cooperate with such 
agencies as the State may designate, to carry out its specific survey, it 
being understood that such a committee is to act in an adyisory capacity 
only. 
Ill. Method. 
The survey for each State is to be made by counties, all sites, mounds, 
etec., to be located upon the standard county maps. Descriptive data for each 
site or mound is to be compiled, and examinations made of all available col- 
lections of specimens in the possession of local students, farmers, ete., to list 
the type weapons, tools, pottery, and other artifacts. these data to be com- 
piled in the report of the Survey. 
IV. Personnel. 
A single investigator should carry out the work for each State, but should 
be aided by one or more assistants. The investigator should be an archae- 
ologist with some training and field experience. Local collectors and 
persons interested will be invited to participate. The salaried participants 
of the Survey should be employes of the State’s agent, presumably the 
State Geologist. On all of these subjects, however. the National Research 
Council stands ready to act in an advisory capacity, if its advice should be 
requested. 
V. Reasons Why State Surveys Are Desirable. 
Your State is rich in mounds, earthworks, hill forts, ete., the remains 
of vanished peoples. How rich your State is in this respect, no one ean say, 
for lack of a systematic inventory. Ohio and Wisconsin, for example, have 
become famous for their antiquities because they made systematic surveys 
and published the facts. This alone should be sufficient justification for the 
Survey, but there are many specific reasons why the State should provide 
for an inventory of its antiquities. Some of these are: 
(1) The Mound Builders and other prehistoric peoples are subjects of 
great universal interest. They appeal particularly to farmers and owners 
of agricultural land who are, by reason of their daily occupation, brought 
