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I asked, "are there so many conch shells around these places?" 

 "They ate them as we do oysters; why, out in the woods there was 

 a pile twenty feet high, but they have hauled many of them away to 

 build up the roads. The different tribes and the Spanish would fight, 

 and if you will go down to where the Flint and Chattahooche rivers 

 fork and enter the woods, you will discover these mounds thrown up 

 and will find skulls perforated by bullets ; I have found them myself." 



One of the colored men found an earthen jar last fall. He thought 

 there was money in it, but finding none he left it in disgust. He said 

 it would hold about two gallons. 



I am going to get some one to direct me to these places when I can 

 leave, and I will do all that I can to examine them* 



The SECRETARY announced the following correspon- 

 dence : 



From the Buffalo Historical Society, Jan. 22; a circular of the Chicago Academy 

 of Sciences, an account of the loss of its building, collections, library, etc., in the 

 great fire of Oct. 9, 1871; Maine Historical Society, Jan.; New England Historic- 

 Genealogical Society, Jan. 22; New York Historical Society, Jan. 22; F. D. W. 

 French, Boston, Feb. 3; Charles B. Moore, New York, Jan. 30; Feb. 1; S. A. Nel- 

 son, Georgetown, Jan. 16, 23; James Hiker, Waverly, N. Y., Jan. 16. 



The LIBRARIAN reported the following additions : 



By Donation. 



BOLLES, E. C. Portland Directory for 1869. 1 vol. 8vo. 



BROOKS, Mrs. H. M. Woman's Journal for 1871. 



BUTLER, B. F., M. C. Conkling's Speech in U. S. Senate, Jan. 11, 1872. Report 

 of the Department of Agriculture for Jan., 1872. 



FHEKE HENHV. The Dependence of Life on Decomposition, by H. Freke. 8vo 

 pamph. Dublin, 1871. 



GREEN, S. A., of Boston. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 4. 



LANGWORTHY, I. P. Catalogues of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary for 1838-9, 

 1850-1, 1856-7. 



PERKINS, JONATHAN C. Catalogue of Amherst College, 1871-2. Exercises at the 

 Semi-centennial of Amherst College, July 12, 1871. 



RHODE ISLAND SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT or DOMESTIC INDUSTRY. 

 Transactions of 1855, 6, 7, 8, 9, 60, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 70. 16 pamphlets. 8vo. 



ROBINSON, JOHX. Railway Times. 150 nos. Miscellaneous pamp*hlets, 50. 



ROPES, WM. L., of Andover. Catalogue of Andover Theological Seminary, 

 1871-72. 



ST. JOHN & COFFIN of New York. The Cabin Book; or National Characteristics 

 by Chas. Sealsfleld. 1 vol. 12mo. 



SI-MNER, CHAS., U. S. Sen. Land Office Report for 1869. 1 vol. 8vo. Washing- 

 ton, 1870. 



By Exchange. 



BIBLIOTHQUE UNIVERSELLE ET REVUE SuiSSE. Archives des Sciences phys- 

 iques et naturelles, Dec. 15, 187^. No. 168. 8vo. pamph. Geneve. 1871. 



