672 General Notes. [July, | 
Upon the second point we can throw no additional light. The 
Davenport Academy is one of the most thriving State associa- 
tions for research and collection of material. In some particulars 
- the museum vies even with that of the Smithsonian Institution. 
There are in all this vast treasure five objects which run the 
whole gamut of reputation, from that of base fraud to the high- 
est credibility. President Putnam gives the history of their 
acquisition as follows: 
a. The discovery of two inscribed tablets in Mound 3, on Cook’s farm, near Daven- 
port, by Jacob Gass, L. H. Willrodt and H. S. Stolzenau, with five other per- 
sons, Jan. 10, 1877 
. The discovery of another tablet, Jan. 30, 1878, in Mound 11, on Cook’s farm, by 
Jacob Gass, John Hume and Charles E. Harrison. 
c. The discovery, in March, 1880, of an elephant pipe in a mound on Hass’ farm, 
in Louisa county, Iowa, by A. blumer, Jacob Gass and F. Hass. 
; d. The obtaining of an elephant pipe by Jacob Gass from a farmer in Louisa eounty, 
Iowa, who found it on his farm while planting corn. 
, finders and the finds. President Putnam commits himself to 
belief in the contemporaneity of man and the mastodon in Amer- 
ica, invoking the testimony of Koch, Dickson, Pourtales, Dowler, 
Winslow, Whitney, Cleu, Hilgard and Fontaine. This contem- 
poraneity is again a subject open to discussion, and no doubt it 
will receive the attention which it deserves. 
The third part of President Putnam’s argument, in which the 
Smithsonian Institution and the Bureau of Ethnology are held to 
ht to have 
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= Holmes of the Bureau of Ethnology. On page Iv it 1s dis- 
tinctly stated that Dr. Hoffman and the Bureau of Ethnology 
furnished all the illustrations for these papers without expense . 
the academy. On p. 245 we are told that “the special thanks 0 
the academy were tendered to Major Powell for his courtesy ! 
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irreparable loss to anthropological science if b eans this 
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