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concave surfaces; they were found together about a foot below the 

 surface, in the hills along- the French Broad River, near Asheville, 

 North Carolina, on the site of an old Indian camping place. Prof. 

 E. II. Randle, of Hernando. Mississippi, sent as an exchange a collec- 

 tion of stone implements and other objects, including large chipped 

 blades (digging tools), showing high polish at the broad cutting end; 

 leaf-shaped blades, worked Hakes, spearheads and arrow points of 

 Hint; polished stone hatchets, one of unusual form; hammer stones, 

 mortar and pestles, stone balls, mullers of stone and hematite; dis- 

 coidal stones, and an exceptionally line hematite plummet or sinker. 

 The collection is mainly from western Tennessee and contains many 

 good pieces. The Bureau of American Ethnology transferred to the 

 .Museum a number of leaf-shaped blades of rhyolite, from caches 

 recently discovered near Tennallytown, District of Columbia. Dr. 

 Henri Martin, of Paris. France, transmitted in exchange many flint 

 implements, scrapers, knives, points, etc., from a deposit at La Quina, 

 Charente, France. The President of the United States donated a 

 collection of small earthenware figurines, vessels, and whistles from 

 ancient graves in Panama, presented to him on the occasion of his 

 visit to the Canal Zone in 1906. A small unique ornament of pa- 

 godite, found near a large Indian mound 5 miles south of Washing- 

 ton, Wilkes County, Georgia,, was contributed by Mr. Barry Benson. 

 Casts of several interesting stone objects, borrowed for the purpose, 

 were made in (he laboratory of the department. 



During the excavations made to uncover the ancient ruins of Casa 

 Grande, Arizona, under a special act of Congress, Dr. J. W. Fewkes, 

 in charge of the work, discovered several hundred small objects which 

 could not be safely left at the spot, and they were accordingly brought 

 to the Museum. They consisted of stone implements, pottery vessels, 

 articles of shell and bone, wooden implements and beams, textile 

 fabrics and basket work, and a number of human skulls ami skeletons. 



The principal accession to the division of historic archeology com- 

 prised specimens of Greco-Egyptian papyri, a gift from the Egypt 

 Exploration Fund. 



The division of technology received a number of very valuable ad- 

 ditions, the most important of which was the transfer from the War 

 Department of a collection of 115 rifles, muskets, carbines, and pistols, 

 principally obsolete weapons used by the United States Army between 

 L800 and 1860. It includes a variety of pieces made at the Govern- 

 ment armories at Springfield, Massachusetts, and Harpers Ferry, 

 West Virginia, and examples of the work of several private con- 

 tractors who manufactured guns of the Springfield pattern for the 

 Government. Among the latter are muskets made by Asa Waters, 

 Millbury, Massachusetts, in 1820, 1821, 1822, 1825. 1826, and 1827; 



