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mens of bone implements obtained by Mr. Frank H. Cutting in Central 

 New York. Mr. J. H. Jenkins, of Northumberland, Pa., has increased 

 the extent of his deposits by numerous additional objects. General 

 M. C. Meigs, Quartermaster-General United States Army, has furnished 

 ethnological specimens from Arizona of much interest. 



Among the articles obtained from the Mississippi Valley is a remark- 

 able stone pestle, or muller, from the Rev. Joshua Hailes, senior. This 

 is stirrup-shaped, and quite unique in North America; although similarly- 

 shaped objects, with the same function, are known in Central America 

 and the Sandwich Islands. 



A noteworthy article in this department consists of a specimen of 

 ancient cloth from a rock-dwelling near Montezuma Wells, in Arizona, 

 presented by Lieut. E. B. Hubbard. Dr. J. F. Snyder, of Illinois, has 

 furnished a large number of disk-shaped, chipped stones, of great beauty. 



Of Old World collections we have mentioned a copy of the Tanis or 

 Canopus stone, presented by the Khedive of Egypt, and, through General 

 Charles P. Stone, numerous "squeezes" of Egyptian antiquities, con- 

 tributed by the latter gentleman ; a series of Saxon crania, and other 

 antiquities, from Professor Rolleston, of Oxford ; specimens from the 

 prehistoric burial-places near Solntre, presented by Professor Lartet, 

 and valuable collections from the Samoan Islands, by A. B. Steinberger, 

 esq. 



Under the head of Mammals^ an important acquisition is that of a 

 perfect pair of skins and skeletons of musk-oxen, from Mr. Hardisty, of 

 the Hudson's Bay service, in arctic North America. 



Mr. P. T. Barnum, in pursuance of his liberal offer to place at the dis- 

 posal of the Institution, for the use of the National Museum, all such 

 animals from his menagerie as might die on his hands, has furnished 

 specimens of the nylghau, the manatee, the dromedary, the sun-bear, 

 and other species. A specimen of the sea-lion of Patagonia has been 

 received from Doctor Burmeister, of Buenos Ayres. Henry W. Elliott 

 has procured for us a series of skins and skeletons of the fur-seals. Doc- 

 tor Gabb has furnished complete collections of nearly all the known 

 mammals of Costa Rica, in great number. Professor Pageustecker 

 presented skins of various European mammals. A series of the seals 

 of Newfoundland was received from Rev. M. Harvey; and Captain 

 Scajimon has contributed additions to the series of cetaceans of the 

 Pacific Coast, especially that of California, it being his intention to 

 render the collection of the National Museum as complete as he can 

 make it. The objects received illustrate his important work on the 

 marine mammals of the western coast of the United States. 



The Vienna Museum has supplied skins and skeletons of several 

 species of Old World mammalia. From Doctor Bessels has been received 

 a skeleton of the polar bear, and from Doctor Yates casts of the teeth of 

 the fossil elephant of California. Seiior Albuquerque, of Brazil, has 



