412 Scientific Intelligence. 
. Mr. fang and read at an see meeting of the Davenport 
and many 
verify the statements made by the discoverers. The gentlemen 
engaged in the exploration are well known, and held in high 
esteem ; their testimony as to all essential facts is clear and con- 
vincing, and the circumstances narrated seem to fully establish 
the genuineness of these relics. That their statement contains 
only facts all who know them will not qusstlorss and that the 
mound from which the relics were obtained had not been pre- 
viously disturbed is sufficiently established by their testimony. 
The authenticity of this discovery must therefore be conceded by 
every fair-minded inquirer. 
e third inscribed tablet was found on January 30th, 1878, in 
an No. 11, in the group of monnds on Cook’s farm, rt the 
known in this community. The circumstances of this discovery, 
the Academy.+ No suspicions whatever attach to this discovery, 
and the well-attested facts connected therewith establish beyond 
reasonable doubt, that, whether more or less ancient, the tablet 
was deposited at the making of the mound. 
Of the elephant pipes in the museum of the Academy, one was 
discovered in March, 1880, in a mound on the farm of Mr. P. Hass, 
in L 
men were present, assisting in the exploration. A ips 7 be 
count of the e finding, prepared by Rey. Mr. Blumer, ! : 
in the Proceedings of the Academy.{ From the acu — 
and high character of the rincipal discoverers, no quesul 
been, or can be, successfully raised as to the authenticity mi 
discovery. The other elephant pipe was not “ discovered oh 
Re . ss, but was pest by him from a farmer } 
* Proceedings Day sg Academy of ae Sciences, vol. ii, p- 9 
+ Ibid, vol. ii, p. 221. sede w Vice-President of the ncademy. 
$ Ibid, vol. iii, p. 1 § Ibid, vol. iii, a 349, note. 
