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lected in Maine, Xow Drunswick, and Pennsylvania, were likewise made 

 by Mr. Boardnian, Dr. Todd, Mr. Blake, Mr. Haley, Mr. Leonard Pea- 

 body, Mr. Hollis, and ]\lr. J. Hamilton. From Colonel E. Jewett, of 

 Utiea, the Institution has received an extensive and choice collec- 

 tion of relics especially rich in pipes and ornaments, beads, amulets, 

 &('., gathered princii)ally in New York and adjacent States. Mr. liol)ert 

 liowell, of Tioga county, New York, has made several interesting con- 

 tributions in the same line, and others have been received irom the same 

 region at the hands of Mr. Stephen Forinan and Mr. Jacob Stratton. 

 Scarcely inferior in exteiit and variety to the collecition of Mr. Jenics is 

 one made by the late Uon. George M. Keim, of Eeading, princii>al5y in 

 central Pennsylvania, but also in Texas and Ohio. In this is found the 

 first specimen of a choice lliut hoe, similar to that described by Professor 

 Kau, in the Smithsonian Report for 3 863, a second specimen of which has 

 just been received from Mr. Gran\'ille Turner, of Illinois. The collection of 

 Gei?eral Keim was presented to the Institution by his children as a memo- 

 rial of their father, and a very large and choice cabinet of minerals has, we 

 learn, been given by them to J^ehigh University with a similar object^ 

 Specimens from western Pennsylvania have been received from Dr. Wal- 

 ker. 



The principal donations from the vicinity of Washington have been 

 made by Mr. O. N. Bryan, some of which are very choice; by Mr. J. W. 

 Slagle, and Mr. Tyler. S[)ecimens from the eastern shore of Virgiida 

 have been presented by Mr. C. K. Moore. Mr. W. H. Edwards, of West 

 Virginia, has contributed a number of choice articles from the Kanawha 

 river and elsewhere, some of them unique. Mr. E. A. Dayton, an 

 esteemed correspondent of the Institution, in the course of an extended 

 tour through Tennessee and Kent ucky last year, took advantage of the 

 occasion to gather collections, and awaken an interest in the subject 

 which has resulted in large additions to our cabijiet. Our attention 

 Laving been called by Mr. Dayton to a remarkable stone idol iound near 

 the mouth of a cave at Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, a corres[)ondence 

 was entered into with its owner. Captain E. M. Grant, which resulted 

 in its being sent to the Institution. The most important collection of 

 ethnological material yet received, however, is that presented by Cai)tain 

 J. H. Devereux, of Clevehmd, Ohio, embracing a large nund)er of nearly 

 every variety of ancient stone implements, i)riucipally of Tennessee and 

 Ohio, among them specimens of pottery of very different patterns 

 from those usually met with. Some of them are remarkable for smootli- 

 uess of surface and symmetry of outline, as well as for the styU^ of orna- 

 mentation. We have stated before that a series of casts of the ])rincipal 

 objects described in the first volume of the Smithsonian Contributions to 

 K;io.vle;lgL' ha I buiii [)iirchased, and it may be mentioned in this con- 

 nection that other articles described in the same volume are in i)osses- 

 sionof Mr. W. S. Vaux, ofPhiladeli)hia, who obtained them through the 

 XHirchase of the valuable collection of ^Ir. James McBride, of Ohio, whoSe 



