148 Ohio Arch. and His. Society Publications.
Really of what value to any one are the
opinions of Mr.
Fowke ?
The society cannot afford to become
sponsors for Mr.
Fowkes' eccentricities. It is far better
that the entire edition be
suppressed and all the books sent out
recalled, than that the soci-
ety should suffer from this most
inconsiderate of books.
If the Executive Committee will take
such action it will not
only meet with my approval but I will
advocate the same before
the entire Board of Trustees.
THE MOUND BUILDERS OF OHIO.
S. S. KNABENSHUE, TOLEDO, OHIO.
[The following interesting review of Mr.
Fowke's ARCHAEOLOGICAL
HISTORY OF OHIO, is from the Toledo
Blade of June 26, 1902.]
Archaeology, in its widest sense, is the
science of antiquities.
It investigates the relics of man and
his industries, and classifies
his remains and records of every kind
from the past. In the
United States the domain of archaeology
covers everything con-
nected with the inhabitants down to the
period when the whites
came upon the scene.
The Ohio Archaeological and Historical
Society has just is-
sued a volume of 760 pages, entitled
Archaeology of Ohio: The
Mound Builders and Later Indians. It is
written by Mr. Gerard
Fowke, of Chillicothe, whose name and
work are well known to
all who are familiar with the
archaeological and scientific progress
of the past score of years.
Mr. Fowke's book is written for the
general reader, not for
the specialist or scientist. There are
very many persons inter-
ested in American antiquities who have
neither time nor oppor-
tunity to obtain and read the vast
amount of literature which has
accumulated, especially since the
publication of Squier and Davis's
researches in the Smithsonian
Contributions to Knowledge, over
a half-century ago. In the present work,
so much of this matter
as relates to Ohio antiquities will be
found in compact form. As
certain features of Ohio achaeology,
however, can not be well