Excerpt from Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. 4: 1882-1884 In the same line of research, Mr. C. E. Harrison has a paper entitled A Report of Mound Explorations near Pine Creek, Muscatine County, Iowa, and Dr. C. H. Preston another, entitled Mound Explorations near Joslyn, Rock Island County, Illinois, The excellent Biographical Sketch of the late Dr. Robert James Farquharson, by Dr. W. D. Middleton, will be read with interest by the many friends and admirers of our deceased associate. The hue phototype portrait of Dr. Farquharson, which forms the-frontispiece to the volume, was furnished with the assistance of the Scott County Medical Society, aided by a generous contribu tion from J. D. Campbell, Esq., of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.