14 The American Geologist. January, 1894 
Waukesha, and to several other animal effigies al other places. 
••As many of these must soon be obliterated by the prog- 
ress of set t lenient and cultivation, he carefully surveyed and 
plotted such as his opportunities permitted. The American 
Antiquarian Society having proposed to pay his traveling 
and other necessary expenses, he devoted much time to a 
systematic and thorough survey of these interesting memo- 
rials of a pre-historic race. It was a congenial labor, and he 
prosecuted it with rare devotion and intelligence. 
"The results were published in 1855 by the Smithsonian In- 
stitution, in a handsomely printed quarto volume, with 55 
plates and nearly 100 wood engravings, all from lira wings 
made by himself. 'Beyond the necessary expenses,' says 
Prof. Henry, die derived and received no other compensation 
than the scientific enjoyment which the prosecution of the 
work a Horded. 1 
"This publication secured to Dr. Laphani an honorable 
rank among men interested in pre-historic studies; it is fre- 
quently quoted by Sir John Lubbock in his well-known work 
on 'Pre-histbric Times,' and must always remain a standard 
of authority and reference on the subject which he has so 
fully anil ably illustrated. 
"He found peculiar pleasure in the study of these- memo- 
rials of a perished race, and one of his last labors was the 
preparation of a series of bas-relief models of some of the 
more characteristic mounds, for the Centennial Exposition of 
1S76." — S. S. Sherman. 
This publication of the Smithsonian Institution had been 
preceded by a similar volume on a kindred topic by Messrs. 
Squier and Davis, relating to the abOrginal remains of the 
Ohio valley. This earlier volume had announced the results 
of the authors as to the origin of the earthworks of which it 
treats. They ascribed them to a dynasty earlier than the 
present Indian, a race which they considered much higher in 
culture and intelligence than the Indian, but which had prob- 
ably been exterminated, at least expelled from their abodes, 
by the incursions of the existing red man. This opinion had 
received the sanction id' many savants and of archeological 
societies, ;ind its authors had been honored by many testimo- 
nials to their sagacity and the fulness of their research. It 
