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also remark that the body seemed to have been enveloped in matting. 

 Their pit B was about twenty feet to the northwest of the centre, 

 and here they came to another burnt skeleton, as shown by our 

 explorations, although owing to the partial examination only 

 which they made, due to the pit caving in, they thought they had 

 found an " altar" and mention the burnt burial chamber as such. 

 They also state that they found at this place several implements 

 made of bone. At the side of their excavation, we also took out 

 about half a dozen pointed implements made of the leg bones of 

 deer. 



During the early part of the present year, several school 

 boys, under the lead of Mr. Wilson, dug two pits in the mound, 

 one of which was between those made by Squier and Davis over 

 forty years ago, and the other at the side of Squier and Davis' 

 pit B. In both of these a remarkable lot of objects were found. 

 So far as "relics" are concerned, the boys made a lucky hit and 

 took out more objects from one of their pits than were found in all 

 the rest of the mound. The larger part of these objects we have 

 been able to secure from the boys and from Daniel Harness, Esq., 

 who very kindly gave to the Peabody Museum all that he had pur- 

 chased from the boys at the time, realizing that they would be of 

 more importance and value to science if placed in the Archaeological 

 Museum with the other objects from the mound, than if held in pri- 

 vate hands as mere curiosities. Among the specimens thus obtained 

 were two or three copper celts and copper plates. There were 

 also several spool-shaped ear ornaments made of copper and cov- 

 ered with meteoric iron, in the same wa} 7 as those from the Turner 

 mound in the Little Miami valley, and also a celt made of meteoric 

 iron. Thus we have an important link connecting the people who 

 built this great mound and the earthworks about it in the Scioto 

 valley with the builders of the singular group on the Turner farm 

 in the Little Miami valley. 



General Meeting, December 17, 1884. 



The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder in the chair. 



Dr. G. L. Goodale discussed the latest views held by botanists 

 as to the molecular structure of cellulose, and the continuity of 

 protoplasm in vegetable tissues. 



