8G THREE KINGDOMS. 



tific study; the photographs, however, show them as they were 

 before separation. 



Specimens from one locality should be kept together. For 

 example, if a shell-heap is examined (in exploration of a shell- 

 heap it SHOULD BE DONE IN SECTIONS.so that the EXACT 

 DEPTH AT WHICH EACH OBJECT IS FOUND CAN BE 

 NOTED. Samples should be taken at the TOP, MIDDLE 

 AND BOTTOM OF THE HEAP, so as to show the actual con- 

 dition of the material forming it; and in order to study the 

 fauna of the time the heap was being formed, large collections 

 should be made of the different shells found in it, bones of fish, 

 reptiles, birds and mammals), the articles collected from that 

 particular heap should be kept together not distributed at 

 random throughout a cabinet. The object of this is obvious, 

 from the fact that it shows the exact condition of the people 

 who formed the heaps, the implements they used, the food 

 they ate, and the animals that lived at that period. Specimens 

 from mounds and graves should be treated in a like manner. 

 Members should never explore mounds, graves or cemeteries 

 of aboriginal man unless they be conducted by, or under the 

 direction of, an Agassiz Association specialist, or other pro- 

 fessional archaeologist, who may direct the operation in a 

 proper manner. Much harm has been done in this way by 

 ignorant persons. NEVER OPEN A MOUND BY THE OLD 

 METHOD OF DIGGING- A HOLE IN THE CENTER. The 

 earth should be removed section by section. We will furnish 

 details to chapters that may desire them in cases where im- 

 mediate action is necessary, as in exploring a mound that has 

 to be removed or leveled. Photographs of mounds, earth- 

 works, and cemeteries, with careful drawings, surveys, meas- 

 urements, and maps (of their exact position) are of grea^ ^ alue. 

 If the mounds have been excavated, detail should be obtained 

 as to methods pursued by the excavators in opening them, the 

 articles found therein, and what became of them. If the pos- 

 sessors thereof will not present them to the Association, to be 

 forwarded to some museum and preserved for the interests of 

 science, photographs should be taken, and endeavors made to 

 induce wealthy citizens to purchase and present them to some 

 museum in good standing. The Peabody Museum of Archae- 

 ology and Ethnology at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Frederick 

 Ward Putnam, Esq., Professor and Curator, is probably the 

 best conducted museum of this kind in America. If the Indian 



