Andrew Fossum, of St.

Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota; Prof.

N.

Winchell, the former State Geologist, now archaeologist for the Minnesota Historical Society ; and Dr Knut Hoegh, of Minne- apolis, who had interviewed Olof Ohman, the Swedish farmer on whose land the stone was found, and others of his neighbors, con- cerning the circumstances of its discovery.

It was found in August, 1898, by the farmer and his son while clearing off poplar woods from a part of the farm, about three miles north of Kensington, a railway station and village in the southwest corner of Douglas county, in the western central part of Minnesota.