The meeting minutes for December 19, 1879, on printed page number 48-49, include a report from Horatio Hale on Haudenosaunee governance and the Tutelo language.
Record of books, mostly periodicals, withdrawn from the catalogue, principally for sale or gift to other institutions. The most unusual item is the Tribute Roll of Montezuma, presented to the National Museum of Mexico, 1942.
Partially printed list in APS Minutes, Feb.24. 1797, p. 251, reads as follows: "List of Western curiosities, presented by Judge Turner, February 10. Indian boy's leggings; calumet; conjuror's mask; bone headed arrow; eight common Miami arrows; stone pestle; ‘stone hatchet formerly in use among the savages, the handle was always a withe--’ ‘petrified buffalo dung [!] from the Rapids of Ohio, where such and various petrifactions are found in abundance'--’'petrified ordure, supposed to be human, from the same place'--'fine fossil coal, resembling the canal [sic] coal of Europe, from Cincinnati on Ohio’ [!]--’ part of one of 30 or 40 trees all completely petrified found...212 miles up the Tennassee [sic] river, having tumbled into it with the bank on which they grew [!] The present specimen appears to have been black walnut’ [!]--Indian bowl, complete, from the bed of the Tennessee--oviform [or aviform?] stone from the Wabash; marine shells and perforated bones from a grave on the great Kenhawa [sic]--’ for the remainder . . . . see page 157.’ This list of twenty-five articles being read, thanks were voted to Judge Turner ‘for this extremely acceptable proof of his Philosophical Industry, and his disposition to gratify them.'" Some of these objects remain in the collections of the APS Museum.
