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tatious in Charles ;ut<l Prince George's comities, Md. The materials 

 are principally quartz, qnartzite, hornstone and rhyolite. There are 

 also arrow and spear heads, scrapers, etc., of flint and jasper, from Ohio, 

 Indiana, Illinois, North and South Carolina. A number of polished 

 hatchets (locality not given); fragments of pottery from Massachusetts, 

 Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, and from the pueblo of Moqui, Ariz. 

 2,<>74 specimens in all. (Ace. 24837.) 



From Edward Lovett, West Burton House, Outram Eoad, Croydon, 

 England: Twenty-two rude flint implements and worked flakes (paleo- 

 lithic), from Norfolk, Suffolk, Devon, Cheswick, Ightham, Han well, and 

 Stamford: also 44 worked flint flakes (neolithic), from the Thames River 

 and from Capel, Sussex. England. (Ace. 25615.) 



From Henry Balfour, Anthropological Museum, Oxford, England: A 

 flint core, 4 paleolithic implements from France, a flint scraper, and a 

 small polished hatchet from the cavern of Les Eyzies, France; 5 flint 

 scrapers from South Downs, Dorset County, England, and ."> stone 

 hatchets (Carib), from the West Indies. (Ace. 24703.) 



From Charles H. Russell, Bowling Green, Ohio: A bird-shaped carv- 

 ing of banded slate from Center Township, Wood Comity, Ohio. Fine 

 specimen. (Ace. 25(>2r>.) 



From F. J. Johnston, Xew Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio: Colled ion 

 from a gravel pit near Xew Carlisle, of bone perforators and chisels, 

 pieces of worked bone, animal teeth, broken flint spearheads and frag- 

 ments of a human skull. (Ace. 25633.) From letters received with the 

 specimens, the following extract is taken: 



"The ridge in which the pit was tiny is of a glacial formation, having a southeastern 

 anil northwestern direction. The gravel is in layers and reaches to the surface. On 

 the tup of the ridge the gravel has been removed, making a boat-shaped heir, length 

 about 1") feet, width in center 6 feet, depth in center 4 feet. In this cavity, which 

 was tilled with red clay mixed with gravel, the specimens were found. 



Nos. 1 and 2 (fragments of a human skull) were found within 1 foot of the surface, 

 with no evidence of other bones. A piece of a skull was found within (i inches of the 

 surface. Nos. 3, 4. 5, (>, and 7 (a beaver tooth and four bone points) were taken from 

 the southern end; also the broken spear heads and a conglomerated mass of human 

 bones. Several ribs were found between two femurs. All the skeletons (bund 

 separate (9) were lying with their heads to the west of north." 



From William S. Thomas. Washington.!). C. : A large collection from 

 the District of Columbia of hammer stones, rude chipped implements 

 (principally qnartzite), notched axes, chipped hatchets, partly polished 

 arrow and spear heads of quartz, qnartzite, and felsite, perforators, 

 scrapers, grooved axes, drilled ceremonial objects, fragments of pot- 

 tery, a small piece of steatite with groove, and parts of a human skull; 

 also a polished stone hatchet from Duchess County, X. Y., with a hole 

 drilled in the upper portion, and fragments of pottery from Georgia. 

 434 specimens. (Ace. 2.j(>7.">.) 



From A. Stephenson. Cincinnati. Ohio: An arrowhead of quartz 

 crystal from San Miguel Island, California. Fine specimen. (Acc.25720.) 



