336 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1883. 



REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF THE WM. S. VAUX 

 COLLECTIONS. 



The Curator of the Wm. S. Yaux Collections respectfully reports 

 to the Council of the Academy of Natural Sciences that the sys- 

 tematic arrangement of the collections has been completed. A 

 catalogue has yet to be made and a portion of the labeling finished. 

 The entire collection is now in a condition to be opened for inspec- 

 tion and study. 



It may be hereafter found desirable to rearrange some of the 

 specimens, so that those from the same locality be brought into 

 closer proximity ; but this can be attended to hereafter. 



On the 15th of August the arrangement and classification were 

 commenced. The Council of the Academy having made an 

 appropriation to defray necessary expenses, Mr. G. Howard Parker, 

 to whom acknowledgment is due for valuable services, was engaged 

 as an assistant, and acted in that capacity until the 15th of Sep- 

 tember. 



For the expenses of arrangement, reference is made to the report 

 of the Treasurer of the Academy. 



The collection has been arranged in seven upright cases, marked 

 from A to G, and thirty-nine horizontal cases, numbered from 1 

 to 39. They are made of Honduras mahogany, each having four 

 drawers, securely fastened with Yale locks. They are as nearl}' 

 dust-proof as possible, and the workmanship is entirel}^ satisfactory. 



The archaeological part of the collection occupies five of the 

 upright cases, marked from A to E, and five of the horizontal, 

 marked from 1 to 5. The specimens number (counting arrow- 

 heads and small implements bj'' trays as one piece) two thousand 

 four hundred and forty -five (2445), arranged in groups according 

 to locality. They consist of stone axes, hatchets, celts, hammers, 

 pestles, balls, shovels, hoes, arrow-, spear- and lance-heads, dis- 

 coidal or Chunkee stones, ceremonial implements, copper and 

 bronze axes, mound pottery; Indian, Mexican, Peruvian, Costa 

 Rican, Roman and Carthagenian antiquities. 



The localities represented are : Italy, Switzerland, German}', 

 France, Sweden, Denmark and Ireland, and America, from Maine 

 to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, with Mexico, 

 Peru and Costa Rica; with a few implements of the Esquimaux and 

 the South Sea Islanders, They include specimens of the pala^o- 



