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mals thus far received number several thousand of each and 
include several hundred specimens of the large mammals, such 
as Deer, Peccaries, Coyotes, Coatis and Ocelots. He has shown 
himself particularly successful in hunting large game, and his 
industry and endurance often attain success where a less ener- 
getic and less resourceful collector would meet with failure. 
LIEUTENANT G. T. Emmons, of the United States Navy, re- 
tired, has deposited in the Museum several remarkable speci- 
mens from Lytton, British Columbia, which are different from 
anything known from there in 1897, when the monograph on 
the Archeology of Lytton was published by the Museum in 1897. 
THE Royal Ethnographical Museum of Berlin has sent, for 
exchange with the Museum, six casts of sculptured clubs made 
of whale bone, from Vancouver Island. These have been drawn 
for illustration, for comparison with specimens collected by the 
Jesup Expedition, in one of its forthcoming monographs, wherein 
will be portrayed as complete a series of such clubs as it 1s possible 
to obtain. 
Tue Museum has received from the Missouri Historical So- 
ciety, as a gift, a model of the Cahokia Mound in Madison County, 
Illinois, as it was in 1878. This mound is of the form of a 
truncated pyramid and is the largest in the United States, being 
some 1100 feet long and more than too feet high. It covers 
more ground than the largest Egyptian pyramid. With this 
model was another, made by Mr. John R. Patrick, showing the 
mound restored to its supposed original form. 
THE Department of Anthropology has received as a gift from 
Mr. T. Van Hyning of the State Historical Department of Des 
Moines, Iowa, a series of grooved axes, celts and stone disks 
which is particularly welcome, since the Museum previously had 
only two archzeological specimens from that State. 
Mr. Davin AsHwortTH, of Wappinger’s Falls, New York, has 
kindly loaned to the Museum a series of characteristic archzeo- 
logical specimens collected by him at the time of the construction 
