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gouge ; three large spear heads ; one large and two small stone 

 arrow heads ; one round pointed arrow head ; one hair supporter; 

 two carved pipe howls ; one semicircular coucavely cut stone ; 

 three copper ornaments ; five large and twenty small copper heads. 

 A fine series of aboriginal stone implements was sent by the 

 ofiicers of the Geological Survey. Mr. E. Murphy contributed 

 a number of objects, dug up nearly opposite Prince of Wales 

 Terrace, Sherbrooke street, as follows: — Twenty-five specimens 

 of pottery ; five pipes, and six pipe stems ; one figure of a human 

 head, in baked clay ; one stone hatchet ; jaw and tooth of beaver ; 

 fragment of human skull; one iron nail and a knife blade, and 

 ten bone implements of various kinds. He also sent a number 

 of curious Irish manuscripts. Mr. G. Barnston exhibited a 

 number of Esquimaux and other Indian objects of interest. 

 Among them were two dressers, or leather coats, of a Blackfoot 

 chief and of a Niscawpie Indian ; a Blackfoot bow and arrows ; 

 a Red Kiver hunter's horn and shot bag, with beaded belts and 

 leggings ; an Esquimaux dog whip ; three pronged dart or har- 

 poon and socket ; small model fish kettle in serpentine ; walrus : 

 ivory comb ; pickers ; ornaments, such as necklaces and ear 

 pendants, and needle cases ; range of snares of whalebone for 

 taking ptarmigan, etc., etc. Messrs. Smith & Co. sent three 

 very old musical instruments — two violins and a violincello — 

 which were used in the convent choir of the nuns of the General 

 Hospital, Quebec, before the appearance of pianos or organs in 

 the New World, and which bear date 1720, 1734, 1743. 

 Numerous specimens of Indian work and aboriginal and other 

 antiquities, were exhibited by Prof. Bell, and Messrs. Vennor, 

 Bagg, Whiteaves and others. The Gentlemen of the Seminary 

 sent a volume of plates illustrating the travels in North America 

 of the late unfortunate Prince Maximilian. 



Among the more miscellaneous objects exhibited, Mr. Laggatt 

 contributed a case of fine native minerals, and Mr. Passmore lent 

 a series of rare Canadian mammals and birds, among the last 

 were specimens of the duck-hawk, American avocet, marbled 

 godwit, and American swan. 



