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prepared to serve as receptacles, and a copper axe. This is one ot the 

 best collections ever acquired by the National Museum. 



J. E. Adcox, Benton, Saline County, Arkansas. — Collection from Saline 

 County : Rude implements, cutting tools, scrapers, perforators, arrow 

 and spear-heads, a hammer-stone, celts, notched and grooved axes, and 

 a muller. 



C. L. McKay (deceased). — Collection from Alaska: Six cutters (slate), 

 4 spear-heads, 4 chipped celts, a chisel (?), 2 adzes (one very hue), a piece 

 of worked argillite, 2 oval pebbles, one with polished cavity, an un- 

 finished bone socket for harpoon-head, and 2 clay vessels. 



J. F. Kummcrfeld, Long Grove, Scott County, Iowa. — A grooved axe 

 (very fine), from Pottawattamie County, Iowa. 



C. T. Wiltheiss, Piqua, Miami County, Ohio. — Cast of an animal- 

 shaped pipe. The original was found 3 miles from Piqua, near the 

 Miami River, having been washed out by high water. Material, pale- 

 gray limestone. 



G. B. Frazar, Mount Auburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. — Col- 

 lections from shell-heaps at Old Enterprise, Mellonville, Lake Munroe, 

 Lake Harney, and Spear's Landing, Saint John's Eiver, Florida: 32 

 shell adzes, 14 fragments of shell adzes, a shell chisel or gouge, a shell 

 sinker, a shell bead, 23 fragments of pottery, 3 fragments of potstone 

 vessels, a grinding-stone, 2 worked prongs of antlers, 3 bears' teeth, and 

 a small piece of galena. 



Ernest C. Broicn, Warren, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. — Collection from 

 mounds and their vicinity in Jo Daviess County : a large digging-tool, 

 leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, perforaters, arrow- and spear-heads, 

 polished celts, grooved axes, a pierced stone object of unknown use, a 

 fragment of a platform-pipe, and fragments of pottery. I take from 

 Mr. Brown's letter the following: "The mounds are situated on a bluff 

 about J 00 feet high. So far as opened they appear to be sepulchral, 

 the bodies lying with the heads to the south. They were all encased in 

 Trenton limestone slabs of about 8 inches in thickness and from 2 to 5 

 feet long. Eelics are very rare." 



W. C. Broicn, Liverpool, Perry County, Pennsylvania. — Collection from 

 Perry County: Rude chipped implements, arrow-heads, rude celts, 1 

 pestle, notched sinkers, and fragments of pottery. 



G. W. Emricli, Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. 

 — Collection from Northumberland County : Flakes, rude and leaf-shaped 

 implements, scrapers, perforaters, cutting tools, arrow-heads, rude celts, 

 an unfinished grooved axe, rude grooved axes, pestles, notched sinkers, 

 fragments of ceremonial weapons, and a carved stone pipe. The pestles 

 and grooved axes are good examples of aboriginal methods in working 

 stone, being natural formations somewhat approaching in shape the im- 

 plement desired, modified by flaking and pecking. 



