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found copper beads, stone celts or ungrooved axes, shell 

 beads, spears and arrow-heads, flint knives and slate orna- 

 ments. Several of the skeletons presented interesting 

 anatomical peculiarities. For instance, the olecranon per- 

 foration of the humerus was observed in more than fifteen 

 instances, the flattening of the tibiae occurred in nearly 

 every case, the crania were unusually thick and of pro- 

 nounced dolichocephalic type, the lower jaw strongly prog- 

 nathic, etc. The skeleton of a small sized man found near 

 the center of the mound was removed together with the 

 earth in which it had been originally placed. This was done 

 by building a wooden box around the remains. There were 

 a number of interesting implements with the skeleton, more 

 particularily several bone handles to flint knives, a tube 

 pipe and a bone harpoon. It is now in Orton Hall, together 

 with the other relics and bones from the tumulus. It makes 

 a very interesting exhibit, for it illustrates the mortuary 

 customs of the Franklin county Mound Builders. 



As yet no complete study has been made of the material 

 from this mound. It will furnish much new material for 

 archaeologic study. Its special interest to us lies not only in 

 this fact, but that it is the only mound near Columbus 

 which has been carefully and scientifically explored and 

 whose contents give positive evidence as to the culture and 

 standing of the tribes of this region. 



ON A NEW GIGANTIC PLACODERM FROM OHIO. 



Prof. Claypole described a new pair of mandibles found 

 by Dr. Clark in the Cleveland Shale to which he gave the 

 name Brontichthys Clarki. The description of the fossil 

 with a figure may be found in the American Geologist 

 for 1894. 



In the discussion that followed the paper. Dr. Clark 

 mentioned another in his|possession which he a.ssigned to the 

 pew genus Brontichthys, which showed "two upper and one 



