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OFFICERS FOR I8S0. 
I'UOF. EDWIN WALTERS, President. 
K. BUTTS, V,ce President. 
R. B. TROUSLOT, Recording Secretary. 
DAVID H. TODD, Corresponding Sec'y. 
EDWARD T. KETM, Preasurer. 
FREDERICK McINTOSH, Librarian. 
SIDNEY HARE. Curator. 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
Edward T.Keim, Dr, Oscar Braecklein, 
Dr, JoBepli Sliarp, Dr, E.Wood Broxvn, 
CliarlesW, Dawson, 
PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. 
R, B, Trouslot, Edward T. Keirn, 
OJiarles W, Dawson. 
Artliur Winslow, - Siate Geologist, 
Jefferson City, Mo, 
Regnlur meclinu's tor !he next six. months 
occnron t lie folio w i nj; diilcs: 
Feb, 2.5; Iviiiroh ll, :.'.=); Ai^ril 8, tl: Max 6,2.1; 
.June 3,17; J ily 1, 1^, '-9; Augnsl 12, -Hi. All 
iire cordiuUv invited. 
MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE AT SOB WYANDOTTE ST 
Members pre.sent were e:tlleil to order 
lyy Vice Pre~iiliMit 10. Butts. Tlie Secre- 
tary beiiijj' detained .Mr. E. '('. Keiiii was 
elected pro teni. 'I'lie niiimles of the lust 
ineetiiii;' weri' r.'ad and accepted. 'J'he 
Ti'easiirer's report for 1889 was lead, ap- 
proved and placed on lile. Cnnimunica- 
tionsfrotn J. D. Pai-ki-r. ihe founder id' 
the Acadeni\'. and Secretary foi seven 
years, and W. H. R. Ivykin.s, were read. 
Mr.Lykins ott'ereil to donate a set of N.Y. 
State Geological Re|>orts and other valu- 
able scientific woi'l<s. On motion the do- 
nation was accepted. In till' usual man- 
ner, R. R. (.'onklin was elected n inember 
of the Academy. 
C. W. Dawson reported a find of Crl- 
noid Heads on Troost Ave. near Brush 
(!;reek. The locality will have further 
iiivestigatio!! by members of the Aca- 
demy. Mr. Fi'ederick jMcIntosh then ad- 
dressed the Academy, on '■■i'he Tin De- 
posits of Dakota." The Deposits are 
very extensive, and an' chiefly owned b.v 
the Harney Peak Mining;' (Jo., liavinj;' a 
capital of 35 millions. 1 here are 115 
mines now oiiened. 'I'he ore is a car- 
Ijonateand a silicate and is found in veins 
from 2 inches to 17 feet deep but the 
ureat problem is how to sepai-ate the tin; 
in the Etta mine 17 ozs. of ore beina; 
left in the tailin^^. The country is hilly 
and nioutainons and in many sections en- 
tirely devoid of timber and water. The 
strata ai-e n-iuch contorted, and tlie series 
from Archaen to Cretaceous can be .seen 
in an hour's walk. Natural Gas and Pe- 
troleiii)'. have been discovered but not 
worked. The Cornish T'in mines in Eng- 
land run i.j of 1 per cent., whereas tlie 
Dakota mines average 00 per cent. 
Among tlie maiij' specimens exhibited 
wliich he obtained while there w ere crys- 
tals of Tin, .\lbite, Greenstone, Mica, 
Rubies in Mica Chist and (Jo])per ore con- 
taining Gold and Silver. Upon the con- 
clusion of Mr. Mcintosh's remarks. Dr. 
R. \Vood Brown, read a paper i>n T'eeth 
and Brain, illustrating same ^^•ith crayon 
drawings; the paper was well received. 
No further business appearing the Acad- 
emy' adjouiMied. 
The Pre-histoi ic Men 
With Lieiiteiiiiiit Frederick SeliwAtka. 
Lieutenant Schwatka was lirst rend- 
ered famous by his expedition in search 
of the remains of Sir John Franklin, to 
the Arctic coast, in 1878 and subsequent 
explorations both in the Arctic region 
ami ill Alaska. But his recent return 
from IMexico with a band of nine' Tora- 
humari. natives of the Sierra Madre 
mountains, is once more bringing him 
inominently belore the public. The 
band consists of four men, three women 
and two little babes. They are [iroba- 
bly the first representai.ives of the cliff 
and cave dwelleis that have evei been 
brought into any civilized country. They 
are a thin, ciitlavoi'ous looking set. a lit- 
tle below tlie rn-diiiary size. Tlieir coni- 
jilexiou is a light creamy color and 
they ba\i' long, glossy black hair. Their 
clotiiing is a blanket made by themselves 
of goat hail- and their sandles of goat 
skin. They are a sliy, timid race, dwell- 
ing ill the almost inac«es.-ible caves of 
the Sierra Madres. Tliey hate Mexicans 
and rtee from white men with all ihe 
.-peed at tlieir commainl. outstripping a 
horse with gre.at ease. 
Repeated attempts have been made to 
get representatives of this strange iMce, 
of which there are cnly about 3000. but 
to no effect. Si'hwatka had cou.-iderable 
dillicully in getting his little b.and of 
pre-liistoric people. lie first obtained 
twenty by and through the aid of a li.ilf 
breed but they i-lanipeded cn sight 
of a railroa.d train. Again he started 
w ith sixteen but they slipped away, one 
by one, until lie now has only nine. 
They are said to be the happiest peo- 
j)lc ill the world, as well as the fleetest 
of foot; the latter being the meaning of 
their name. Torahumari. They traveled 
with the Lieutenant, all the way from 
Kl Paso, in a caboose, and in a measure, 
have become attached to him. The mo- 
ment he is out of sight they grow rest- 
less and dispirited. Schwatka 'goes 
from here to (Jhicago, where he will ex- 
hibit his natives in illustrating: his lec- 
tiii'es on pre-historic man. He intends 
visiting the larger cities of this country 
and Eurojie, \\ lien he will return to the 
home of the cliff-dwellers for further in- 
vestigation. 
Most of the band with Schwatka are 
Sun worshipers, and the laeutenant be- 
lieves that they are direct descendants of 
the old clift'-dwellers of Arizona and 
Mexico. 
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THE FOURTH EDITION. 
INTRODUCTION BY 
ILLUSTRATIONS BY 
THEODORE JASPER, A. M,, M, D,, 
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