608 ANNUAL RECOKD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



FIFTH REPORT OF THE PEABODY MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE. 



The fifth annual report of the trustees of the American 

 Peabody Museum on American Archaeology and Ethnology, 

 as presented by its director, Professor Jeffries Wyman, has 

 just been published, and, like its predecessors, shows a grati- 

 fying evidence of that progress which has already made this 

 museum the foremost collection of the kind in America as re- 

 gards the ethnology and archaeology of the Old World. The 

 collection is extremely rich in every thing illustrating the 

 stone age of Denmark and Sweden, the reindeer period of 

 France, and the lacustrian period of France, Switzerland, Ita- 

 ly, etc. ; indeed, the number of European collections equally 

 full must be very small. During the year 1871 72 a large 

 part of the archaeological collection of the late Dr. Clement, 

 of St. Aubin, was obtained, and the remainder was procured 

 during the present year. This is extremely rich in specimens 

 from the ancient dwellings of Lake Neufchatel. 



The report chronicles the result of several explorations 

 made under the auspices of the museum, among them that 

 of Rev. E. O. Dunning in Tennessee. The specimens obtained 

 during his investigations of certain caves and mounds were 

 extremely important, particularly in reference to the objects 

 of ornamented shell, which, as is well known, are very rare. 

 Some very interesting specimens of j^ottery were also obtain- 

 ed in the same connection. 



Professor Wyman recounts his own explorations in Florida, 

 which he has been in the habit of visiting for several years 

 past. Among these the most remarkable is one at Silver 

 Spring, on the western side of Lake George, near Pilatka, from 

 the fact that the lower part of the shell deposit is cemented 

 by lime, uniting the whole in a solid mass, in which were in- 

 closed the bones of the eatable animals, and implements of 

 shell and bone, as in the ancient caves of France. Report. 



REPORT OF THE PEABODY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FOR 1.871. 



The report of the officers of the Peabody Academy of Sci- 

 ence of Salem, lately made to the trustees, presents a satis- 

 factory exhibit of the progress made during the past year. 

 It will be remembered that this establishment received a 

 moderate endowment from George Peabody, of London, and 



