who have had no opportunity of examining them. The circum- 

 stances of the discovery of these two examples are contained in 

 the following extracts from a letter which I have received from 



Fig. i 6.— Bear Pipe. 

 Mr. W. H. Pratt, president of the Academy, under date of April 

 24, 1880: " The first elephant pipe which we obtained (Fig. 17) a 

 little more than a year ago, was found some six years before by an 

 illiterate German farmer named Peter Mare, while planting corn on 

 a farm in the mound region, Louisa county, Iowa. He did not care 

 whether it was elephant or kangaroo ; to him it was a curious 

 1 Indian stone,' and nothing more, and he kept it and smoked it. 



Fig. 17.— Elephant Pipe, Iowa. 



In 1878 he removed to Kansas, and when he left-, he gave the pipe 

 to his brother-in-law, a farm laborer, who also smoked it. Mr. 

 Gass happened to hear of it, as he is always inquiring about such 

 things, hunted up the man and borrowed the pipe to take 

 photographs and casts from it. He could not buy it. The man 

 said his brother-in-law gave it to him and it was a curious thing — 



