IIo JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 
offer prices that private individuals cannot afford to make. Much 
might be accomplished if we had even $100 a year to expend in 
the purchase of Indian antiquities, etc., for our Museum cases. 
Perhaps it would also enable us to procure for comparison some few 
remains from the Ancient Forts and Mounds of Ohio, Iowa, etc. 
A few years ago a most important discovery was made in the latter 
state. Two stone pipes were unearthed close to the same number 
of skeletons placed ina sitting position, faces towards the East. The 
figure of the mastodon carved on the elephant pipes proves beyond 
any reasonable doubt that the owners lived at the same time as the 
mammalian. 
Our collection of Indian relics at present cannot possess many 
objects of attraction to anyone who takes an interest in antiquarian 
research. One solitary case (only partly filled) silently appeals to 
every member to endeavor to make it more worthy the Associa- 
tion. Friends have already contributed some valuable objects : 
Chief Brant’s inkstand (of great historic value to Ontario), the 
Totem, or Turtle Crest, of the Mohawks, (leaders of the great 
confederacy or Six Nations) is likewise of much interest, as: well as 
some other things I need scarcely refer to, presented to us, and which 
I feel are much appreciated by some few of us at least. ‘‘ These 
Relics,” remarks Sir A. Geikie, ‘“‘are in a sense more valuable than 
men’s bones would have been. While they afford us certain testi- 
mony to his existence, they give us at the same time some indication 
of his degree of civilization and employment. His handiwork thus 
comes to possess much geological value, his stone hatchets, flint 
flaker, bone needles, and other pieces of workmanship are to be 
regarded as ¢rue fossils from which much regarding his early history 
has to be determined.” Dr. Jas. Hall and Dr. Selwyn, Director of 
our Canadian Survey, recognized this fact several years ago and 
long before it was so emphatically expressed by the ainpenee 
Director of the British Geological Survey. 
A flint scraper from the Ohio Mounds, presented by our 
late Vice-President, Mr. Moffat, is superior to any I have seen, 
as regards finish. 
Oct. 28th, 1892. 
