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The collections acquired during the summer, although not 

 lacking in interest and value, are not so extensive as those of 

 previous years. Acquisitions are made in three modes : first, 

 through members of the Bureau of Ethnology and of the U. 

 S. Geological Survey, who act as collectors ; second, by means 

 of exchange for publications or duplicate specimens from pre 

 vious collections ; and, third, by donation. Dr. Thomas and his 

 assistants, working in the Mississippi Valley and on the Atlan 

 tic slope, report but few accessions during the year. Mr. 

 James Stevenson secured important collections from the Pueblo 

 country, as before stated, especially from the villages of Jemez 

 and Sia in the Jemez Valley, New Mexico. These collections 

 include about five hundred specimens of pottery and nearly four 

 hundred of stone, wood and other substances. A large percent 

 age of these specimens are ancient. A considerable number 

 of ancient relics of pottery and stone were obtained from 

 ruin sites in the Jemez and Rio Grande valleys, New Mexico, 

 by the Director and Mr. Holmes. Mr. A. P. Davis collected a 

 number of fragments of ancient pottery from the ruin of 

 Pueblo Alto, New Mexico. A very interesting series of ob 

 jects illustrating the present condition of the arts among the 

 Cherokee and Catawba Indians was procured by Mr. James 

 Mooney. Mr. DeLancey W. Gill, of the U. S. Geological Sur 

 vey, has added to the collection many specimens of rude stone 

 implements from the vicinity of Washington. Donations have 

 been received from the following persons : Mr. C. C. Jones, 

 fragments of ancient pottery from Stalling* Island, near Au 

 gusta, Georgia; Doctor Taylor, fragments of ancient pottery 

 from Baldwin County, Alabama; Gen. G. P. Thruston, frag 

 ment of an enormous earthen vase from a suburb of Nashville, 

 Tennessee ; Mr. W. W. Adams, articles of stone from Union 

 Springs, New York ; Mr. C. L. R, Wheeler, cast of a unique 

 stone knife from Westchester County, New York; and Mr. 

 James Tilton, fragments of pottery from Plum Island, Massa 

 chusetts. 



By exchange for books and duplicates from the National 

 Museum the following acquisitions have been made : from Mr. 

 H. P. Hamilton, fragments of ancient pottery from Two Rivers, 



