Putnam.] 314 [January 6. 



description of Curtis as translated into German by Groben "with his 

 own specimens, and has made some good criticisms upon the charac- 

 ter of the description in its German dress, arid without having seen 

 the English of Curtis, has actually translated the doubtful passages 

 better than Groben. All the objections which he makes to the de- 

 scription fall to the ground when the original of Curtis is used. 



January 6, 1875. 

 The President in the chair. Ninety- three persons present 



Sen. Don Antonio del Castillo, Sen. Don Mariano Barcena 

 and Dr. John Hjaltalin, were elected Corresponding Mem- 

 bers, and Messrs. Holmes Hinckley, Edward M. Wadsworth, 

 Sereno Watson, William W. Lee, Edward A. Birge, Samuel 

 H. Trowbridge, Edward K. Benton, Zabdial A. Willard, A. 

 E. White, Dr. John W. Brewer, Dr. David Hunt, Jr., and 

 Gen. Francis A. Osborn, were elected Resident Members. 



The Secretary announced by title the following paper : "A 

 Prodrome of a Monograph of the Family Tabanidse of the 

 United States. Part I, the Genera Pangonia, Chrysops, Sil- 

 vius, Haematopota, and Diabasis," by C. P. Osten Sacken, 

 which will be printed in full in the Memoirs, forming No. I, 

 of Part IV, Vol. II. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam gave an extended account of his archae- 

 ological researches in Kentucky and Indiana during the past 

 season. 



He prefaced his remarks by a rapid sketch of the races of men 

 found in North America on the first occupation of the country by 

 Europeans. Alluding to the Indians of the New England coast, he 

 called attention to their more prominent characters as shown by their 

 life and their crania. He then mentioned more particularly the race 

 found by De Soto in the South, and their peculiarities of customs as 

 recorded by the early travellers among them; pointing out facts 

 which lead to the belief that the southern Indians of the Natchez 



