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full notes, and the Museum is taking steps to obtain a supplemental 

 collection to complete the series. This collection was installed a 

 few days since and is now on exhibition. 



Among the principal exchange collections are : 



ist. Some miscellaneous weapons from Polynesia and South 

 America, obtained at the Fisheries Exhibition. 



2d. Some 16 musical instruments and accessories from Tiflis, 

 in the Caucasus, obtained through Mr. Engleman, of St. Louis. 



3d. About 40 specimens from the Leipzig Museum, consisting 

 of knives, bows, arrows, baskets, mats, etc. , from Africa, particu- 

 larly the Loango Coast and Gaboon river, on the west coast. The 

 admirable native steel implements are well illustrated. This col- 

 lection, combined with a few stray or miscellaneous articles and a 

 small collection by Rev. Dr. Gurley, constitutes but a meagre 

 African ethnological exhibit. 



The Museum has just sent to the Trocadero, at Paris, an ethno- 

 logical collection selected from the material in its possession, and 

 doubtless their exchange will embrace some additions to the abov(2. 



Mr. J. G. Swan, in addition to the regular collection which he 

 sends in from time to time, made last summer a special trip for the 

 Smithsonian Institution to the Queen Charlotte Islands, B. C, 

 and the results have just been received. 



In the early part of the year he sent in some photographs and 

 about 100 specimens supplemental to his series of collections illus- 

 trating the fisheries of the Indians in and around Cape Flattery, 

 W. I. (The complete collections went to London.) 



In the trip referred to above he started from Masset Sound (N. 

 Graham Island) and coasted around the west side, then through 

 Skidegate Channel to the southeast coast ; then home to Victoria. 

 Now that he has partially carried out his long-cherished desire, it 

 is to be hoped that his forthcoming notes will prove as valuable as 

 his notes previously published. A better knowledge of the Haidah 

 totems and totemic carvings is desired. The collection is rich in 

 masks, wood-carvings, ladles, ancient stone implements, ropes, 

 clubs, shaman's wands, ceremonial bows, whistles, rattles, fishing 

 gear, etc., but particularly so in the slate carvings, of which he sends 

 30 specimens — dishes, boxes, and models of totem posts. There 

 was already on hand a sufficient number of specimens to illustrate 

 the Haidah wood carvings and working in silver, but the additions 

 to the slate carvings have made it appear desirable to install the 



