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Mr, Henry Balfour, of tlie Museum, Oxford, Englaii-i, iransiuitted 

 models of a sliell laiuv) from the soutliwest coast of Brittany, and from 

 the Orkney and Shelter islands; also a Freueli crusie of brass from 

 Normandy; two iron lamps used by bakers for lighting ovens, and a 

 spoon made from a pecten shell. In exchange a blowgun of cane from 

 the Chetimacha Indians, Louisiana, model of fire-drill from the Eskimos 

 of Anderson River, Canada, and a pottery lamp from Morgantown, W, 

 Va., were transmitted. 



Several small exchanges of ethnological objects have been made with 

 Mr. Edward Lovett, of Croydon, England. 



From the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, England (through Dr. W. 

 T. Thiselton-Dyer, director), was received a mat from New Guinea, for 

 which an equivalent has been transmitted. 



The Museum, Oxford, Eng'land, through Mr. Henry Balfour, trans- 

 mitted a bamboo blow pipe from Burmah, for which an equivalent will 

 soon be sent. 



PKEIIISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 



From the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Bruns- 

 wick, through Mr. L. W. Bailey, were received three stone implements 

 and other specimens, for which twenty-six stone implements and six 

 fragments of pottery were sent in exchange. 



Exchanges of archaeological material have been made with Mr. Ed- 

 ward Lovett, of Croydon, England. 



A collection of archaeological objects was transmitted to the Museo 

 Nazionale d'Anthropologia, Florence, Italy, for which an equivalent will 

 doubtless be received before long. 



MAMMALS. 



Dr. R. Collett, director of the Zoological Museum, Christiania, Nor- 

 way, transmitted a skeleton of a porpoise {Lcu/enorhynchns albirostris), 

 for which the skin and model of skull of a California sea-lion will be 

 sent in exchange. 



Seveuty-one si)ecimens of mammals were sent to the Auckland Museum, 

 Auckland, New Zealand, for which an equivalent has been promised. 



A skin and skull of Antilocapra amerieana, and skull of Bison amer- 

 icanus, has been transmitted to the Australian Museum, Sydney, New 

 South- Wales, for which material has been promised in exchange. 



To Dr. George Pouchet, Musee d'Histoire Niiturelle, Paris, France, 

 was sent a skeleton of Bison amerieanns, in exchange for objects 

 already received. 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, Edin- 

 burgh, Scotland, sent eleven specimens, representing nine species, of 

 birds' skins from England, Azores Islands, Siberia, and Jaj^an, for 

 which an exchange will be sent. 



