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©evils ^ake CLoUeclioa. 



It is regretted that the study and arrangement of tliis large 

 and important collection have not yet been completed, and that, 

 therefore, but brief mention of it can be made in this edition of 

 the catalogue. 



1'his collection was made in tiie interest of the University 

 during the summer of 1887. It includes large and numerous 

 samples of the granite, syenite, limestone and other rocks in the 

 vicinity of Devils lake, in Ramsey and I>enson counties. Dakota, 

 as well as skeletons, skulls, agate spear heads, agate cliips, stone 

 pipes, clay pipes, bone knives and skewers, many pearl, shell 

 and hope ornaments, shell scoops or spoons, hieroglyphics on 

 stone, pottery vessels, and co})per and stone implements taken 

 from numerous mounds in the same counties. These latter are 

 believed to be the remains of an extinct race that occupied Da- 

 kota many centuries ago. 



There are about six hundred specimens in this collection. 



