Show ii it ni n i LIA ii s ilem 11 of the bc nod at the meeting of the american kinc rican A association bation held at dubuque buquo august sm J JW V roster Iott cr of chicago exhibited some fixated human skulls sod ani drawings of ot others cis ilo said there hai bad been several adulla dis un covered in injian gounde widely liep rated as to locality which seemed to have a common gpo c or a any n y other known aucian crania hosa of other I 1 a 1 I u 1 ls ta talco en reb respectively fro from 01 two groups of mounds arioul five miles parti apart on I 1 abo 0 des eb PLO 0 hirer in the 0 Cui bi caso go flout ibo 0 neigh chood of 0 mccou a mitat U on the llie and tarro te aliu railroad Kail road it in indiana la diaDa and from tho elie vicinity of dun dim lucilli just juat across the siept from dubuque buque iowa present trobo jhc thc marked in thu extreme degree la abo farat ortho two group croppi of mounds near MII chi leago por per of of were found lul but only ono ona mod nl three frontal bones were here well to camit of measurement and comparison the other of wound human remaina evidently be lunn 0 axing ids to lo two distinct eras one ol of which must liaro havo been receda in addition to these viila found acar nearly ly on a level with the drift nal url beci many skulls far roue gone in uc composition and preventing fac liei not appertaining to the existing indian 11 to these oliefa doctor I 1 olt is u in clineb to assign an antiquity ol of hundred years sonic some of thajo relies relics are undoubtedly tb alideo 9 ofa rl alie 6 3 d builders and are ortho of the highest 19 value 1 c I 1 to the antiquary 0 fo o abnormal ww wag tho the appearance I 1 of these t skulls when fiorit roster hail bad difficulty in in other investigators thai llie had not been subjected to compression but the shape is in entirely diff different acut from froin that of tho the indian skull or any other compressed or or othera is e the skulls ili ills of L uro p can caucasian and of american indians indian etro compared are with the mound builder 3 the compa rh camj in casion aull is developed more anoro com plemely than tile the andian in levery every dirt direction in a line through tho the head somewhat above the cars and is w what hat boat shaped that or of the godun somewhat approaches the or OF a block with tho the corners rounded off but the mound builders skull is lie that of a bird and needs only a beal beak to oom coal tho the illusion it rounds down equally from the apex apes to loth both front and back with no forehead worth naming I 1 1 tie ze i i |