184 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
being regarded advisable to await results from our future work in regions border- 
ing the scene of our latest investigation that a wider field for comparison may be 
available. 
All pathological specimens obtained by us along Tennessee river have been 
given to the Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Dr. M. G. Miller aecompanied the expedition, as anatomist, throughout the 
investigation of Tennessee river, as has been the case during all our archeological 
work in the South, and has assisted in putting this report through the press. 
Mr. S. G. Weir, with us for the fourth and fifth seasons as assistant, lent 
efficient aid in many ways. 
The thanks of the Academy are tendered Major H. Burgess, Corps of En- 
gineers, U. 8. A., stationed at Nashville, Tenn., for much valuable information 
and for lists of mounds and sites, obtained by him from officials under his direction 
and covering the entire river; to Prof. Frederic W. Putnam for careful revision 
of this introduction and for many valuable suggestions; to Prof. F. A. Lucas of 
the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and to Dr. С. S. Miller, Jr., 
of the United States National Museum, for determination of the bones of lower 
animals; to Dr. H. A. Pilsbry and Mr. E. G. Vanatta for identification of shells; 
to Mr. F. J. Keeley! for determination of minerals and rocks; to Dr. H. F. Keller 
for chemical tests; to Mr. Charles C. Willoughby for much valuable assistance; 
to Miss H. N. Wardle for aid with the index; to Mr. F. W. Hodge for literary 
revision of the report. 
The Academy also warmly thanks the owners of mounds and aboriginal 
dwelling-sites, who so kindly placed them at its disposal for investigation, and 
assures them that their courtesy is most fully appreciated. 
All mounds and dwelling-sites are described in order ascending the river, 
though the investigation, while usually, was not always, made in this way. 
Measurements in this report are approximate; reductions are linear. 
The conchshell so often referred to in connection with aboriginal handiwork, 
formerly called Fulgur by conchologists and by us in all our writings, is now known 
as Busycon and is so referred to in this report. 
1 Slides for microscopic examination, for obvious reasons could not be furnished Mr. Keeley, 
hence exact determination cannot be guaranteed in all cases, as otherwise could have been done. 
