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assistance was received from the distinguished Direcftor both in ex- 

 amining" specimens and in procuring photographs and plates. 



In the museum of Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand, at the time in 

 process of arrangement by Herr Heger for public exhibition in one 

 of the ducal palaces, are many fine things from New Caledonia ob- 

 tained by H. R. H. the Archduke during a recent cruise in the Pa- 

 cific Ocean. Among the objects were many spears, arrows, and clubs 

 in piles and not accessible, and the following: — 



N'ew Ca/cdoii ia . 

 2 Death-masks and several car^^ed wood faces 

 for the same. Used at the funeral of a Chief. 

 Many fiat disk greenstone clubs with wooden 

 handles and in some a rattle at the hand end. 

 The disks often 8 to lo inches in diameter and 

 well polished. Fig. 15. Club of common form, 

 but with a curved handle not seen elsewhere, see 

 Fig. 16. A conical implement of greenstone 

 bound with a cord handle. Fig. 17. Jade beads 

 both spherical and cylindrical. Many spears and 

 arrows. 2 Adzes of jade set in a solid head in 

 one piece with the handle. Fig. 18. Many ord- 

 Fig. 15. inary adzes from 



New Guinea and the Solomon Is- 

 lands. Many fine things from 

 eastern Asia. 



Fig. 18. Fig. 17. Fig. 16. 



In the Natural History Department of the Vienna Mu- 

 seum is a fine series of Dinornis bones. 



