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to some Wisconsin institution. It comprises 

 many hundreds of specimens representing 

 every period and type from the primitive 

 pebble and tubular forms to the pottery, lead 

 and iron pipes of early historic times. It is 

 unsurpassed by any private collection in its 

 richness in monitor, disk, Micmac and Siouan 

 pipes. 



The James G. Pickett collection of Wiscon- 

 sin implements has been purchased and pre- 

 sented to the Oshkosh Public Library through 

 the interest of Mrs. Leander Choate. This 

 collection consists of specimens collected in 

 the Winnebago Lake region, which is remark- 

 ably rich in archeological material. 



The collection of Wisconsin antiquities 

 brought together by the late authority on Wis- 

 consin archeology. Dr. I. A. Lapham, will 

 soon find a home in the Milwaukee-Downer 

 College, to which it will be presented by the 

 Wisconsin Archeological Society to form 

 there the nucleus of another repository for 

 Wisconsin material. 



The W. H. Elkey collection of nearly 6,000 

 selected Wisconsin implements made of stone 

 and copper was purchased in June at the sug- 

 gestion of the society by Mr. Erank A, Logan, 

 of Chicago. Mr. Logan is a member of the 

 society and secured the collection for the 

 Logan Museum of Archeology at Beloit Col- 

 lege, of Beloit, Wis. This is the second great 

 Wisconsin collection which Mr. Logan has 

 added to this museum during the past two 

 years. Both Mr. Logan and Dr. George L. 

 Collie, dean of the college and curator of the 

 museum, are determined to make this museum 

 the home of one of the greatest of the arche- 

 ological collections to be made from the Great 

 Lake region. 



These are only a few of a large number of 

 archeological collections from Wisconsin, all 

 of them valuable, which the Wisconsin Arche- 

 ological Society is determined to have secured 

 for the state and students of its archeology. 

 This may be done by deposit in local colleges, 

 museums and institutions or by purchase and 

 donation to such repositories. A large num- 

 ber of local institutions, in fact a majority of 

 them, which have been strangely apathetic in 



the past, are now cooperating with the society 

 in all these efforts. 



In order to bring the work of the society 

 before the general public and to interest them 

 in the educational and historical value of the 

 archeological material found in Wisconsin, 

 the society will install at the September meet- 

 ing of the state fair at State Pair Park, West 

 Allis, an exhibit intended to illustrate by 

 means of objects, photographs, maps, charts 

 and models the chief archeological features of 

 various sections^ of the state. For this pur- 

 pose photographs are being taken or secured 

 of mounds, specimens and others of the most 

 popular and instructive antiquities of the 

 state. Loans of specimens for the purpose 

 are also being made to the society by its mem- 

 bers in all parts of Wisconsin. 



A group of mounds, the restoration and 

 preservation of which were brought about by 

 the society several years ago, is located on the 

 fair grounds. The attention of visitors will 

 be directed to this group, which will prove a 

 wholesome object lesson to all who come from 

 parts of the state where there are mounds 

 capable of being so preserved. It will be re- 

 membered that such is the case in practically 

 every part of the state. 



Public lectures will be given at the fair by 

 various prominent members of the society and 

 literature will be distributed freely. In its 

 undertakings in connection with the fair the 

 society is receiving the assistance of the state 

 board of agriculture. 



The archeologists of Wisconsin began to 

 take an active interest in the archeology of 

 their state and to cooperate with each other 

 only a few years ago. Previous to that time 

 there were but few workers and no coopera- 

 tion. They have worked patiently, perfecting 

 an organization largely due to the efforts of 

 Mr. Charles E. Brown, have sought advice 

 freely and have adopted the best plans offered 

 them. They have developed such plans and 

 made original schemes of their own. They 

 have never forgotten that their chief aim was 

 research, while they have persistently popular- 

 ized the work in a way that has built up a 

 strong public opinion in their favor and a 



