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with the donor's name. The Survey wishes to especially thank the 

 following for donations or loans : Dr. Franklin Gault, Tacoma, 

 Wash., Snowy Owl ; Roy C. Davis, Vermillion, bear, monkey, and 

 fifteen mounted birds, loaned ; Roy C. Davis, Lamprey and Krie- 

 der's Hawk, donated; Floyd Bond, -Custer, specimen of tremolite, 

 loaned ; Professor A. L. Haines, Vermillion, fossil sponge, polished, 

 donated ; E. D. Cowles, Vermillion, petrified wood, and screech owl, 

 donated ; Carlton A. Haines, Vermillion, Bat, Garter Snake and 

 Mole, donated ; W. J. Jones, Rolling Bay, Wash., section of pile 

 from dock showing effects of ravages of ship worm; Maurice 

 Chancy, Vermillion, Lamprey, donated ; Floyd Bond and O. R. 

 Skola, Screech Owl, donated; Wm. H. Over, one hundred species 

 of land and freshwater shells, donated ; Peter Lund, Vermillion, 

 Long-eared owl, donated ; Wm. Bauman, Gophers and moles, 

 donated ; Van Buren Perry, Aberdeen, fossils and minerals, do- 

 nated ; William Siders and Ronald Jordan, Vermillion, three Bats, 

 donated ; Lewis Kephart, Vermillion, Bats, donate^ ; Lewis Ort- 

 mayer, Vermillion, large Hornets' nest, donated ; John Visher, 

 Vermillion, Barnacles, donated ; L. A. Riter, Vermillion, American 

 Merganser duck, donated ; Harold Howard, Vermillion, Indian 

 Maul, donated. 



In addition to arranging the accessions, Mr. Over has classi- 

 fied many of the specimens already in the Museum, and made a 

 catalogue of all plants, birds and mammals. 



III. Field Work: Stephen S. Visher, and Wm. H. Over, 

 visited Harding County for the Survey during the fall of 1912. 

 This trip was made to complete the herbarium collection and con- 

 tinue geological observations. Collections were especially made in 

 and around Slim Buttes, South Grand River, Cave Hills, Little 

 Missouri River, East and West Short Pine Hills, and Crow 

 Buttes. This route covered the most interesting part of the county, 

 from a geological and biological 'standpoint, and part of the 

 material for this bulletin was obtained on this trip. 



Some work was done along archeological lines in the Cave 

 Hills, where it was discovered that the old tribes of Arickaree 

 Indians had long ago used for living rooms, the eroded-out de- 

 pressions or "Caves" in the sandstone walls. Fragments of pot- 

 tery, flint and bone articles were found and in one place their 



