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collected around St. Louis and in Louisiana in 1828-29 by 
the Right Reverend Rosati, Bishop of St. Louis; a valu- 
able collection of marine and fresh water shells; insects, 
especially those injurious to vegetation; star fishes and 
sea urchins; and an extensive series of lichens and 
mosses, chiefly from western states and territories, and 
papier maché models of fungi, colored true to nature, 
presented by Dr. T. C. Hilgard. 
Here were to be found distorted crania from mounds 
near Little Rock, Arkansas, also stone axes, spear and 
arrow heads, quoits, shells and beads and other aborig- 
inal implements and ornaments from western states, In- 
dian costumes, war implements, cooking utensils and 
ornaments of the Upper Missouri Indians; a beautiful 
series of porcelain ornaments in bas-relief, representing 
figures of men and animals, and used as decorations in 
the great Porcelain Tower of China; also highly polished 
bricks employed in its construction. 
During the years that the Academy was tenanted in 
the Public School Library Building, the Washington Uni- 
versity, and the Missouri Historical Society, what was 
left of the museum and such small accessions as were ac- 
quired from time to time were stored in basements, and, 
consequently, of no use to the members or to the public. 
However, during the bright days of the Archaeological 
Section in 1876 and 1877, excavations were made by the 
Academy in the mounds of southeastern Missouri, in 
northern Arkansas and in Illinois, the partial results of 
which were published in a quarto memoir. The pottery 
and the crania obtained then are among the treasures of 
the present museum, : 
In 1900 the Academy purchased the Yandel] Collection 
of palaeontological specimens, containing many of Yan- 
dell’s own type specimens and of those described by 
Shumard, whose collection is owned by Washington Uni- 
versity. This collection is especially rich in Crinoids of 
the Devonian Age and many rare types contained in it 
are described in the first volume of the Transactions. 
