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ing that of the races who left their tokens in the upper 

 layers. From certain symbolic designs in the ornamenta- 

 tion of the pottery, Dr. Schliemann arrives at the conclusion 

 that the Troyans were of Aryan origin like their ruder suc- 

 cessors. 



While engaged in excavating during the month of July of 

 this year, Dr. Schliemann came upon a deposit of highly in- 

 teresting objects, namely, a flat copper article in the shape 

 of a large waiter, probably a shield ; a copper kettle with 

 horizontal handles ; a large copper plate, upon which a silver 

 vase was fastened ; a copper vase ; a globular bottle of pure 

 gold, with zigzag ornamentation; silver vases; drinking-ves- 

 sels of gold and silver ; a great variety of silver and gold 

 ornaments (finger and ear rings, bracelets, diadems, etc.) ; 

 lance-heads and knives of copper (bronze?); and other inter- 

 esting relics. These objects lay close together, as though 

 they had been contained in a wooden chest. This valuable 

 find is supposed by Dr. Schliemann to constitute the treasure 

 of Priamus, and to have been left behind when the city was 

 destroyed. Dr. Schliemann is about to publish (Brockhaus, 

 Leipzig) a work containing a minute account of his explora- 

 tions in the " plain of Troy." This will be accompanied 

 with an atlas of 216 photographic plates. 



Two important collections of Old World ethnology have 

 lately been added to the art treasures of America, the first 

 of them being that obtained by General Di Cesnola, U. S. 

 Consul at Cyprus, on the site of the Idalium and other local- 

 ities, and embracing a great variety of objects of Phoenician, 

 Greek, Roman, and other periods. Amid much competition 

 on the part of foreign museums, Mr. Johnson, of New York, 

 took the responsibility of ofiering $50,000 on behalf of the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and this propo- 

 sition having been accepted, the collection was brought over 

 from London, and is now in the buildincc belonsrins; to the 

 above-mentioned institution. 



The second collection is that of Egyptian antiquities made 

 by Mr. Hay, and for a time on exhibition at the Crystal Pal- 

 ace in London, and which was purchased by Mr. Samuel A. 

 Way, of Boston, and now on exhibition in the building of the 

 American Athenaeum in Boston. With these, and the Abbott 

 cabinet of Egyptian antiquities in possession of the New York 



