AMERICAN NATURALIST. 



Vol. IX. -JUNE, 1875. -No. 6. 



THE POTTERY OF THE MOUND BUILDERS. 



By the courtesy of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of 

 American Archeology anil Ethnology, Cambridge, we ore able to 

 give the following account of the very interesting collection of 

 articles, principally of pottery, from mounds in Missouri, forming 

 the Swallow Collection which was secured by the Museum last * 

 year, and now recorded in the Eighth Annual Report of the 

 Trustees made to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. 



On the decease of Professor Wyman, the late Curator of the 



charge of Professor Gray, as temporary Curator, who requested 

 Mr. Putnam to write a report on the acccessious to the Mum-uhi 



Iressed by him to Professor Gray. 

 To enable a ready comparison to be made with the several 



