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BULLETIN OF WISCONSIiX NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. VOL. 2. NO. 1. 
Hall, occurring in the Niagara formation at Racine, Wis., which 
perhaps justified its being considered as a new species or sub- 
species. < 
W. J. Bennetts read a paper on the winter birds of Lake Michi- 
gan, mentioning those species of the loons, grebes and gulls that 
were known to winter on the lake, and giving some attention to 
their winter habits. 
The meeting was then adjourned. 
Thursday, January 31, 1901. 
The Wisconsin Natural History Society met this day in the 
lecture room of the Public Museum ; thirty-three persons were 
present and President Teller occupied the chair, 
Chas. E. Brown reported on section meetings held during the 
month, after which Mr. P. V. Lawson addressed the meeting on 
the antiquities occurring in the vicinity of ^lenasha, Wis. 
The oldest relics of pre-historic man in that locality were con- 
sidered by the speaker to be a class of chipped stone implements 
found by him on the shores of Lake Winnebago and at Green 
Bay. 
They are of a black sandstone similar to the stone implements 
found in the Trenton gravels of New Jersey and probably belong 
to an age equally remote. 
Next in order of antiquity are probably the stone cairns, and 
shell mounds, that occur at several places around lakes Winnebago 
and Winneconne. 
Effigy^ mounds and oval mounds are exceedingly common in 
the locality considered. Three lizard mounds and a turtle mound 
have been preserved in the Elisha D. Smith Park, Menasha. 
Near Little Butte des Morts are tw^o remarkable serpent mounds 
1,210 and 1,580 feet long respectively, while near Stockbridge is 
what is probably the finest group of existing mounds in the world 
occupying 90 acres of primeval forest and representing many 
types. 
The address was illustrated by numerous drawings and maps 
made from surveys taken by the lecturer, as well as by many 
archeolosrical specimens and photographs. 
Mr. John H. Tweedy was elected a member of the society and 
Dr. R. Menofer, San x\ntonio, Texas, a corresponding member, 
after which the meeting was adjourned. 
Thursday, February 28, 1901. 
The Wisconsin Natural History Society held its general meet- 
ing this day in the Museum lecture room with the President in 
the chair and twenty-eight members and visitors present. 
