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Dr. J. F. Bransford, U. S. Navy. — Two small stone sculptures (human) 

 from the Pacuare Cut, Limon Bailroad, Costa Eica. 



Copt. A. Briand, Havre, France. — A hammer-stone and 16 flint scra- 

 pers (neolithic), from Elbeuf, Department of Seine- Inf6rieure, France. 



James Harrington, Tampico, Mexico. — Two stone sculx^tures in human 

 shape. 



A. B. Beck, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. — A carved stone 

 pipe (obscene). Said, to have been brought from South America, but 

 probably of Northwest Coast origin. 



J. A. D. Stephenson, Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. — A 

 scraper and 96 arrow-heads, from a deposit in Alexander County, North 

 Carolina. I take from Mr. Stephenson's letter the following state- 

 ments : " This deposit was found recently by some quarrymen near the 

 Catawba Eiver, in the southeast corner of Alexander County, buried in 

 the soil against the side of a large rock. I know of no locality nearer 

 than 70 miles from which the material composing the specimens could 

 have been obtained." 



E. Stanley Gary, Baltimore, Md. — A ceremonial weapon, from Elk 

 Eidge, Howard County, Maryland. 



J. B. Aldrich, Memphis, Tenn. — A New Zealand war-club (mery), 

 taken from a mound in Bent County, Colorado. Original loaned, and 

 cast made in the National Museum. This specimen is identical in mate- 

 rial and shape with a New Zealand war-club in the collection of the 

 National Museum, and belongs to the class of so-called " intrusive 

 relics,'- sometimes found in this country. 



Trocadero Museum, Paris, France. — Collection of large casts taken by 

 M. Desir6 Charnay from sculptures iu Mexico and Central America. 

 The importance of this collection can hardly be overrated. The casts, 

 entered under 57 heads, fill a large hall in the National Museum, and 

 embrace the important bas-reliefs and glyphic inscriptions described 

 and figured by Del Eio, Dupaix, Waldeck, Stephens, and other explor- 

 ers. They offer to the investigator facilities for study which otherwise 

 could only have been pursued in the far-distant regions of this conti- 

 nent, where the traces of a higher aboriginal civilization are found. 

 The casts are the duplicates of those exhibited in the Trocadero Mu- 

 seum at Paris, the visible tokens of Mr. Lorillard's munificence. 



J. C. Howell, U. S. Navy. — A tombstone from the plains of Troy. 



Charles J. Turner, Brunsicick, Chariton County, Missouri. — Collection 

 from Chariton, Linn, Saline, Boone, and Howard Counties, Missouri. 

 An arrow-head with strongly jagged edges, stone sinkers (some of 

 hematite), hematite celts and axes, a polished cutter, a sickle-shaped 

 natural formation, prepared for cutting purposes, a grooved double- 

 pointed head of a war-club, carved pipes, ceremonial objects, a shallow 

 stone dish, a stone ring with incised lines, a rubbing stone, a large 

 grooved adze-head, a large stone slab with foot-shaped depression and 

 cup-formed cavities placed around it, natural formations (clay iron ore), 



