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pology at Florence; 2 dint knives found at Bari, Puglia, southeast 

 Italy; a stone fusaiole found near Arezzo, Tuscany; blade of a bronze 



dagger, found near Cortona, Tuscany (rare); 2 primitive bronze fig- 

 ures (human), votive or sacred, from an Etruscan tomb near Chiusi, 

 Italy (rare); 2 bronze man heads, spikes, from Etruscan necro- 

 polis, near Chiusi (rare); a Roman sling-stone in lead, with inscrip- 

 tion, found near Aseoli-Piceno, Italy (rare); an Etruscan sling-stone 

 in lead, with inscription, found near Cortona, Italy (rare) (this speci- 

 men is similar in shape to the sling-stones of steatite used by the natives 

 of New Caledonia); a small silver fibula, Greco-Italic, from an ancient 

 tomb near Capua, southern Italy; plaster east of a small stone chisel 

 from the Santa Cruz district, Jamaica, West Indies (the original is in 

 the archaeological museum, at Cambridge, England); a worked tiint 

 knife or scraper from the Babel-Maluk Valley, near Thebes, Egypt, and 

 5 flint flakes found with many similar ones near Baalbec, Syria; col- 

 lected by Dr. Verio in 1890; 5 fragments of rudely ornamented pot- 

 tery, 3 shells, 26 bones of a pig (Sus andamanensis), and 2 bones of a 

 tish from a Kitchen -midden, near Tort Blair, Andaman Isiands. Bay 

 of Bengal (relics of the aborigines), collected by E. H. Man, esq.; 

 7 fragments of coarse pottery from a mound on the Manatee River, 

 British Honduras, collected by J. Ballamy in 1890; rude figures in 

 coarse terra cotta, excavated from ancient tombs on the bank of the 

 Rio Tajajos, Province of Para, Brazil; the figures represent an owl, a 

 tortoise, a sitting human figure, the legs of a bird, a human head, and 

 a cone-shaped object, collected by A. M. d' Almeida Leal in 1889. En- 

 tire number of objects received, 140. (Ace. 24918.) 



From the National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, Florence, 

 Italy, through I )r. Paolo Mautegazza, curator : A collection of archaeologi- 

 cal specimens from Italy; a fragment of worked wood and a plaster cast 

 representing a somewhat similar piece, from the lacustrine habitation 

 at Mecurago, Province of Novara (bronze age) : model in plaster of a 

 perforated stone disk, and a fragment of pottery from lacustrine habi- 

 tation at Isolino, Lake Varese; fragment of pottery (brule), Terramare 

 de Noceto, Parma; fragment of pottery from the cave of Bergeggi 

 (Savona); terracotta spindle whorl fusaiole from Mount Calamita, island 

 of Elbe; two polished hatchets from Casentiuo, and one from Mount 

 Cuccoli, Tuscany ; polished stone hatchet (diorite) from the Province of 



century. The discovery in this country of. prehistoric man with his ages of stone 

 and bronze has settled the question that the Etruscan country was occupied long 

 prior to the Etruscan civilization, and, there being nothing to the contrary, we may 

 suppose that the former occupants were the ancestors of the Etruscans. Some of 

 the monuments at Saturnia were dolmens and have been recognized as belonging to 

 the prehistoric ages of stone or bronze. It may, therefore, be doubted whether the 

 "beautiful flint implements" mentioned really came from an "Etruscan tomb" 

 at Saturnia. As they are similar in every particular to prehistoric flint implements, 

 it has been contended that they belonged to the ages of stone or bronze, and were 

 earlier than Etruscan. — Curator. 



