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aboriginal arcb.neology. He has completed papers upou the pottery of 

 the Potomac Valley and upon the objects of shell collected by the Bureau 

 during the last eight years, and he has others in preparation. As cura- 

 tor of Bureau collections he makes the following statement of accessions 

 for the year: From Dr. Cyrus Thomas and his immediate assistants 

 working in the mound region of the Mississippi Valley and contiguous 

 portions of the Atlantic slope, the Bureau has received one hundred 

 and forty-six specimens, including articles of clay, stone, shell, and 

 bone. Mr. Victor Mindeleff obtained sixteen specimens of pottery from 

 the Pueblo country. Other collections by members of the Bureau and 

 of the Geological Survey are as follows : Shell beads and pendents 

 (modern) from San Buenaventura, Cal., by H. W. Heushaw. Fragments 

 of pottery and other articles from the vicinity of the Cheroki agency, 

 N. C, by James Moouey. A large grooved hammer from the bluff at 

 Three Forks, Mont., by Dr. A. C. Peale. A large series of rude stoue^ 

 implements from the District of Columbia, by DeLancey W. Gill. 

 Donations have been received as follows: An important series of earthen 

 vases from a mound on Perdido Bay, Ala., by F. H. Parsons. Ancient 

 pueblo vases from southwestern Colorado, by William M. Davidson. 

 A series of spurious earthen vessels, manufactured by unknown persons 

 in eastern Iowa, by C. C. Jones, of Augusta, Ga. Fragments of pot- 

 tery, etc., from Eomnej , W. Va., by G. H. Johnson. Fragments of a 

 steatite pot from Ledyard, Conn., by G. L. Fancher. A series of 

 stone tools, earthen vessels, etc., from a mound on Lake Apppka, Fla., 

 by Thomas Featherstonhaugh. Fragments of gilded earthenware and 

 photographs of antiquities from Mexico, by F. Plaucarte. Fragments 

 of gold ornaments from Costa Kica, by Anastasio Alfaro. Loans of im- 

 portant specimens have been received as follows : Articles of clay irom 

 a mound on Perdido Bay, Ala., by Mrs. A. T. Mosman. Articles of 

 clay from the last mentioned locality, by A. B. Simons. Pottery from 

 the Potomac Valley, by W. Hallett Phillips, by S. V. Proudflt, and by 

 H. L. Reynolds. Articles of gold and gold-copper alloy from Costa 

 Rica, by Anastasio Alfaro, secretary of the National Museum at San 

 Jos6. 



Prof. Cyrus Thomas was chiefly occupied during the year in the prepa- 

 ration of the second and third volumes of his reports upon the mounds. 

 It is probable that these will be finished during the present fiscal year. 

 He also prepared a bulletin on the Circular, Square, and Octagonal 

 Earth-works of Ohio, with a view of giving a summary of a recent sur- 

 vey by the mound division of the principal works of the above character 

 in southern Ohio. A second bulletin was completed, entitled "The 

 Problem of the Ohio Mounds," in which he presented evidence to show 

 that the ancient works of the State are due to Indians of several differ- 

 ent tribes, and that some, at least, of the typical works were built by 

 the ancestors of the modern Cheroki. 



Since his return from the field. Mr. U. L. Reynolds has been engaged 



