professor of natural history. Foster had been interested in archaeology since his work on the Ohio geological survey and spent many years studying the remnants of the Indian mound builders culture. Just prior to his death in 1873, he published Prehistoric races of the United States of America which laid out the results of his studies of the mound builders. Foster was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1869 and served for three years as president of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. He died on June 29, 1873, of inflammation of the liver. Publications A Synopsis of the Explorations of the Geological Corps in the Lake Superior Land District in the Northern Peninsula (1849) Report on the Geology and Topography of a Portion of the Lake Superior Land District in the State of Michigan: Part I, The Copper Lands (1850) [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010688737 Report on the Geology and Topography of a Portion of the Lake Superior Land District: Part Two, The Iron Region (1851).] The Mississippi Valley: Its Physical Geography, Including Sketches of the Topography, Botany ... (1869) Mineral Wealth and Railroad Development (1872) Pre-Historic Races of the United States of America (1873) Notes References 1815 births 1873 deaths Wesleyan University alumni American geologists American archaeologists American science writers People from Zanesville, Ohio People from Brimfield, Massachusetts Massachusetts Know Nothings Massachusetts Republicans Scientists from Massachusetts Scientists from Ohio