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has always been open to the inspection of American tourists. In 

 this collection there were many objects which until this last sum- 

 mer have never been duplicated in any collection this side of 

 the Atlantic. 



The Peabody Museum under the active management of the 

 late Professor F. W. Putnam has expended a large amount of 

 money and well directed efifort in the preservation and explora- 

 tion of the earthworks of Ohio. Enterprising ladies of Boston 

 raised a sum of several thousand dollars to purchase for that 

 society the Serpent Mound in Adams County and to enable 

 Professor Putnam to explore the mound and restore it to its 

 original condition. After the society had completed its work 

 its ownership was generously transferred to the Ohio State 

 Archaeological and Historical vSociety which now has the care 

 of it and has erected on it a tower from which the whole length 

 of the serpent can be surveyed. This mound has long attracted 

 the attention of anthropologists the world over, and has properly 

 been taken as a symbolic work indicating that the mound builders 

 belonged to that large class of human beings who practised ser- 

 pent worship. This inference has been strongly confirmed by 

 the discovery of a second serpent mound on the Little Miami 

 River in South Lebanon. Local attention had been directed to 

 this mound for many years, but it was not surveyed till about 

 twenty years ago when Dr. C. L. ]\letz of Madisonville pul)lished 

 a careful survey. The convolutions of this figure are still dis- 

 tinctly preserved and the total length of the figure is a])out looo 

 feet. The mound is situated on the south side of the Little Miami 

 River a few miles below the village of Morrow. The location 

 is attractive, and conspicuous from a large surrounding area. 

 The officers of our society have visited the mound and confirmed 

 the description of Dr. Metz, and pulilished the results in their 

 proceedings. This addition of a second serpent mound greatly 

 strengthens the argument for the symbolic significance of the 

 structures. 



Altogether Professor Putnam has expended $50,000 or 

 $60,000 in the exploration of Ohio earthworks. The most of this 

 expenditure has been in the exploration of the Turner group of 



