January, 1900. Doerflinger— F. S. Perkins Album. 59 
ton Perkins — a study of the relation of the archaeology of the state 
to that of the United States at large, comparison of American and 
European prehistoric archaeology and a critical study of the Per- 
kins collection. 
An elegant and substantial all-leather cover for binding will 
be supplied with each copy of the work. The Album will be 
issued in twenty-seven parts. These parts will average five plates 
with inter-leaves. The text and binding-cover will accompany the 
final part. 
The parts are to appear at monthly intervals. They will cost 
ten dollars each and will be sent by express C. O. D. Thus the 
cost, to subscribers, will be two hundred and seventy dollars. 
Upon completion of the work the price will be raised to four hun- 
dred dollars. The ''Walter's Album of Keramics," containing 
one hundred and sixteen plates, is sold at five hundred dollars a 
copy ; the Perkins Album of equal beauty, execution and interest, 
costs but two hundred and seventy ! 
Part I will soon be placed in the hands of the artists. The fol- 
lowing parts will not be issued until the number of subscriptions 
warrants publication. Four hundred subscriptions will be neces- 
sary to cover the first cost of the work, which four hundred copies 
will amount to, at least, one hundred thousand dollars. It is 
hoped that there will be no interruption of the work after the 
second part appears, because the 1,200 water color paintings are all 
ready. 
The work is to be dedicated to Dr. Increase Allen Lapham,long 
an honorary member of this society, and known throughout the 
world by his momumental work, "The Antiquities of Wisconsin.'' 
His influence upon the advancement of science and education needs, 
here, no comment. He was director of the first geological survey 
of this state and was the successful instigator of the establishment 
of the United States Signal Service, with its system of Daily 
Weather Reports. In this dedication the work itself is honored. 
The Lapham family heartily approve the plan of publishing the 
Album, and of the dedication, and have supplied some unpublished 
drawings and maps, made by Dr. Lapham in his last years, which 
will be printed in the work. 
The Museum of the Wisconsin Natural History Society, 
founded in 1857 and donated to the City of Milwaukee in 1882, 
contained some of the first copper implements, recognized as such 
by Prof. Peter Engelmann, Mr. Perkins and Dr. Lapham. The 
idea of publishing the Perkins Album originated in the society 
and, in promoting its appearance by this notice, it performs a labor 
of parental love. 
