NOTE-BOOK NO. 1, OF THE KICKAPOO CLUB. BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, 1914. [Illustration] The articles shown herein are one bronze and steel-edged tomahawk blade, found at the site of Kickapoo Fort in Section 5, West Township, McLean Co. Ill., by Mark Piper, one granite hatchet made from a discarded discoidal hammer-stone (or discoidal hammer-stone made from a discarded hatchet, which?) and one flint drill, both found by S. W. Le Neve, at Kingfisher Hill, Menard County, Ill. The five smaller potsherds beneath these were also found by Mark Piper, at Kingfisher Hill. The two perpendicular rows of stamped and rouletted potsherds on each side of this group were found at an ancient camp-site on the south bluff of the Sangamon river, on the Center Farm, in the north part of Menard Co. Ill., by Mr. E. H. Hamilton and are now in the collection of the McLean County Historical Society. M. C. "_Help Save the Great Cahokia Mound_" _By C. H. Robinson, Normal, Illinois._ On April 20th, 1913, an enthusiastic party of Bloomington and Normal men made an archaeological expedition to the great Cahokia mound group in Southern Illinois, which is located in Madison and St. Clair counties, about two miles east of the corporate limits of East St. Louis, Illinois. The location is easily accessible by way of the new hard road or by the St. Louis and Collinsville electric system. The great Cahokia, or better know as Monk's Mound, together with many smaller mounds are located on a 204 acre farm belonging to the Hon. T. T. Ramey's heirs. This farm is situated in the most picturesque and richest part of the famous "American bottoms." Land which is so fertile that even the aborigines raised much with but little effort and which no doubt led to the location and construction here of the largest earth mound ever built by primitive man, the great pyramid of Cheops in Egypt or the Aztec temple mound of Mexico excepted. Monk's mound covers more ground than any pyramid of Egypt. Cheops is but 746 feet square, the Aztec temple of Mexico is 680 feet square, while Monk's mound is 1080 feet by 780 feet and 104 feet high making about 84,000,000 cubic feet of earth. This mound has never been touched with pick or shovel, although great quantities of archaeological material have been removed from many of the surrounding smaller mounds and cultivated fields, and many fine collections are to be found in both private and public places, taken from this most ancient residence site of a vanquished race.