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APPENDIX C— ACCESSIONS TO THE MUSEUM IN 1882. 

 Department of Antiquities. 

 Charles Rau, Curator. 



The principal accessions of this department during the part year are 



as follows : 



Prof. Willia^n Boyd DawMns, Owens College, Manchester, England. Col- 

 lection of rude stone implements and bones of extinct animals from 

 the Creswell caves, N. E. Derbyshire, and from Windy Knoll, Castle- 

 ton, Derbyshire, England. 



A. E. Douglas, New York, X. Y. Three tiiut drills of peculiar shape 

 from Chariton and Saline Counties, Missouri. Casts. 



Capt. O. M. Wheeler, U. S. Geographical Survey. Collection of leaf- 

 shaped implements, arrow-heads, perforators, stone axes and mauls 

 with double grooves, and specimens of pottery from different locali- 

 ties in New Mexico. This collection had been loaned to Mr. F. W. 

 Putnam, of the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., and some of the 

 specimens are figured in Vol. VII of the U. S. Geographical Surveys 

 west of the 100th meridian. 



Otto Simsky, Philadelphia, Pa. Nine amber beads from Bronze-age 

 tumuli on the Baltic coast north of Konigsberg, Prussia. 



Dr. F. M. Endlich, Beading, Pa. One specimen of unhusked charred 

 corn, from ruins on the San Juan River, New Mexico. 



E. M. Brigham, now in South America. Collection of ancient pottery, 

 painted and ornamented, from the island of Marajo, Brazil. Worthy 

 of especial mention are two very large burial vases. 



William Taylor, A llapaha, Berrien County, Georgia. Human bones from 

 mounds in Georgia. Among them two tibiae exhibiting platycnemism 

 in a high degree. 



Jose C. Zeledon, Costa Pica, C. A. A valuable collection of stone im- 

 plements and carvings, clay vessels, and grotesque images from Costa 

 Rica. 



C. L. Stratton, Knoxville, Tenn. Large collection of stone imple- 

 ments, &c., from the neighborhood of Knoxville, and collection from 

 a mound on French Broad River, 15 miles above Knoxville, consist- 

 ing of pin-shaped objects of shell, shell beads, shell gorgets with 

 human faces carved on them, and others ornamented with lines and 

 dots, small clay vessel, one human skull and thigh-bone. 



