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our only lady Egyptologist. She may justly be compared in that 

 held to Miss Edwards, of England. Her lectures on Egyptian 

 subjects have made a sensation. 



To the work of Dr. C. C. Abbott we briefly referred in connec- 

 tion with the Peabody Museum at Cambridge. Dr. Abbott lived 

 for many years at Trenton, gathering a great collection of archae- 

 ological specimens from the State of New Jersey. The series, now 

 at Cambridge, numbered 

 many thousands of speci- 

 mens, and was the basis for 

 The Stone Age in New Jer- 

 sey and for the later book 

 Primitive Industry. In 1875 

 Dr. Abbott found the first 

 argillite palaeolithic imple- 

 ments in the Trenton gravel. 

 This gravel is said by geolo- 

 gists to date back to the 

 close of the Glacial Period, 

 and any evidence of hu- 

 man workmanship in un- 

 disturbed gravels of that 

 kind carries the existence 

 of man in the Eastern Unit- 

 ed States back to a consid- 

 erable antiquity. A lively 

 warfare has been waged 

 against these "finds." It 

 has been questioned wheth- 

 er the objects were of human workmanship, and whether they were 

 really of the same age as the gravels. But similar implements have 

 been found in similar deposits in other States within the glaciated 

 area, and each new discovery tends to establish those which pre- 

 ceded it. Since his connection with the University Museum, Dr. 

 Abbott has continued field-work in the Delaware Valley, and has 

 lately made many interesting discoveries, such as workshops 

 where argillite implements (non-palaeolithic, but ancient) were 

 made and quarries where the Indians gathered their materials for 

 arrow-heads and spear-heads. Dr. Abbott aims to exhaust the 

 archaeology of the Delaware Valley before he ends his work. 

 Such thorough study of limited areas is what we most need in 

 American archaeology. After such work has been done for each 

 section of the United States, then, and then only, can our students 

 reach sure conclusions. 



The loan exhibition of religious objects above mentioned is 

 mainly due to the energy and efforts of Mr. Stewart Culin, who 



Gaerick Mallery. 



