EXPLORATION" OP INDIAN MOUNDS. 



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The committee have not thought it advisable to do more in this 

 report than to state the mere facts of the exploration, leaving to 

 individual members of the academy the opportunity of pointing 

 out the bearing of these facts. 



The thanks of the committee are due Messrs. Delaplaine and 

 Burdick, on whose lands the explored mounds are located, for per- 

 mission to open them, to Mr. James R. Stuart, artist, for assistance 

 in superiutendiug the exploration, and to Mr. JST. B. Van Slyke, 

 chairman of the executive committee of the Board of Regents of 

 the State University, for furnishing tools and workmen from the 

 university farm. 



Photographs of the arrow-head, cloth, pottery, and crania, two of 

 the pottery and three of the others, with four drawings of mounds 

 Nos. 1 and 2, and an account of expenditures are herewith trans- 

 mitted, as also the specimens of the first three articles named. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



W. J. L. NICODEMUS, 

 J. B. FEULING, 

 ROLAND D. IRVING, 

 I. A. LAPHAM, 

 G. P. DELAPLAINE. 

 Madison, Wis., Nov. 18, 1874. 



