98 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
was a single conical pile or mound of stones. It was pee 
on an isolated hill, near the junction of Osage Fork and ¢ 
conade Rivers. Some ten or twelve similar mounds of stone 
were observed occupying a commanding position on the ae 
along the v: wi and standing some 300 feet above the 
conade. 
Mr. Holmes observed, that similar stone mounds were men- 
tioned by Messrs. Squier and Davis as occurring in the Scioto 
Valley, 12 miles West of Chillicothe ; Pear! at Somerset, pice 
that théses mounds had been ed 5 as eat stations in the : 
observed by Col. Fremont, West of the Rocky Mountains, Sed. 
by others, me of the Mississippi. 
Prof. D. 8. Sheldon, of Iowa Coll., Davenport, and W. H. 
Barris, on. of Iowa City, were elected Correspondents, and 
the Hon. Samuel | Reber, an Associate Member = 
June 2%, 1857, 
in Pon The, As Wistizevs i in the chair. 
‘The Corresponding Secretary laid upon the table “Ri port 
on two New Species of N. American Helicide, by John H. 
Redfield,” from the Author ; the “College Jour. of Med. Sei- 
ence, ested Meas = from the Editor; and “Catalogue of 
Crania in the Collection of the Acad. of Nat. Sciences, 
raat A. Ya dis M.D., from the Author; and the Pro- — 
Acad. of Nat. Sei. Philad., March, '1857, from’ 
Ape and cole Ae aang of ee a. 
s, and tee Btadeiny tons Missouri Hoye 
