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and corn hills, traces of all of which are 

 rapidly being destroyed. A plea is made that 

 these at least be recorded and when possible 

 photographed, marked and preserved. Every 

 club is urged to investigate the meaning of 

 the names of the cities, towns, counties and 

 other places with any traditions regarding 

 them. 



Copies of all records prepared in response 

 to these pleas, and all photographs, are re- 

 quested to be sent in to the committee to be 

 filed in the central office or bureau of records 

 of the society. 



The members of the society and its friends 

 in Wisconsin having been relieved of the 

 financial burden of the publication of the 

 archeological bulletin, and having sufficiently 

 supplemented the fund thus saved, are now 

 able to provide funds to employ a manager 

 for the work of the society throughout the 

 state. This has made it possible for Mr. 

 Charles E. Brown to resign from the staff of 

 the Milwaukee Public Museum and to assume 

 full direction of the central office of records 

 and all field work in the state. He is at pres- 

 ent systematizing and extending the work, 

 much of his time being devoted to interesting 

 local business men and to securing funds and 

 memberships, as well as to the direction of 

 exploration and the preservation of notes, 

 photographs, maps and specimens. 



Mr. Brown served the museum for seven 

 years, and is specially fitted by his training 

 and his careful disposition for the task of 

 directing the work of the local society. He 

 edited the four volumes of the bulletin which 

 appeared before state aid was secured, is a 

 founder of the American Anthropological As- 

 sociation and author of many papers on the 

 archeology of Wisconsin. 



The society has been incorporated under the 

 laws of Wisconsin and numbers among its 

 members hundreds of workers, some of them 

 in each part of the state. It has already been 

 able to preserve mounds at Waukesha, West 

 Allis and other places and the archeological 

 survey of the state has been completed in 

 several counties. Public meetings are held 

 and lectures are provided by the society which 

 are intended especially iof the public. For 



several years Beloit College has been offering 

 courses in American archeology and history 

 under the direction of Dr. George L. Collie. 



The society is now establishing a central 

 office and bureau of records. Its researches 

 are being carried on in many parts of the 

 state by more workers than were ever avail- 

 able before. The large number of these co- 

 laborers is the result of the patient encourage- 

 ment and guidance on the part of the society 

 during the past years. Mr. Brown will him- 

 self be in the field in charge of an exploring 

 party this season. 



Several museums, libraries and colleges 

 have been thus far selected as repositories for 

 collections, but the plans of the society are 

 that many more widely distributed places 

 shall become such. An effort is being made 

 to prevent the manufacture and traffic in 

 counterfeit specimens, and to prevent collec- 

 tions or even specimens from leaving the 

 state; but we believe that no sincere member 

 of the society will do anything to prevent the 

 great museums of our country and the world 

 from securing representative educational col- 

 lections or from carrying on research in the 

 state. It is even our belief that the members 

 will welcome cooperation in exploration, pro- 

 vided the work is properly done, the results 

 are published and the specimens are kept 

 available for students in a public institution. 

 For synoptic collections to illustrate known 

 facts, no doubt the society will eventually 

 supply specimens from its duplicates. 



Local collectors are being influenced to de- 

 posit their collections in their near-by educa- 

 tional institutions, but no effort is appar- 

 ently being made to deprive any section of 

 the state of collections in order to build up 

 one great museum. This may cause students 

 to spend some time in traveling from one 

 museum to another, but it certainly stimulates 

 local interest. 



The Schumacher collection, consisting of a 

 large series of objects from the Green Bay 

 region, has been deposited by its owner, Mr. 

 J. P. Schumacher, in the Kellogg Library at 

 Green Bay, Wis. 



The West collection of pipes, many of which 

 are from Wisconsin, will be presented in time 



