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that of Harvard University, in Cambridge; of the American 
Antiquarian Society, in Worcester; and the private library of 
Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, in Hartford. In Canada he visited 
the library of Laval University, and the private library of Mr. 
P. Gagnon, in Quebec, of St. Mary’s College and Jacques 
Jartier School in Montreal, and various missions along the St. 
Lawrence river, to inspect the manuscripts left by the early 
missionaries. The result was the accumulation of much new 
material for insertion in the Algonquian bibliography. 
Mr. Witu1am H. Hotmes continued to edit the illustrations 
for the publications of the Bureau, and besides was engaged 
actively in his studies of aboriginal archeology. He com- 
pleted papers upon the pottery of the Potomac valley, and 
upon the objects of shell collected by the Bureau during the 
last eight years, and he has others in preparation. As curator 
of Bureau collections he makes the following statement of 
accessions for the year: From Mr. Thomas and his immediate 
assistants, working in the mound region of the Mississippi 
valley and contiguous portions of the Atlantic slope, the 
Bureau has received one hundred and forty-six specimens, 
including articles of clay, stone, shell, and bone. Mr. Victor 
Mindeleff obtained sixteen specimens of pottery trom the 
Pueblo country. Other collections by members of the Bureau 
and the U. 8. Geological Survey are as follows: Shell beads 
and pendants (modern) from San Buenaventura, California, by 
Mr. Henshaw ; fragments of pottery and other articles from 
the vicinity of the Cheroki agency, North Carolina, by Mr. 
Mooney; a large grooved hammer from the bluff at Three 
Forks, Montana, by Mr. A. C. Peale; a large series of rude 
stone implements from the District of Columbia, by Mr. De 
Lancey W. Gill. Donations have been received as follows: 
An important series of earthern vases from a mound on Perdido 
bay, Alabama, given by F. H. Parsons; ancient pueblo vases 
from southwestern Colorado, by William M. Davidson; a 
series of spurious earthen vessels, manufactured by unknown 
persons in eastern Iowa, from C. C. Jones, of Augusta, Georgia; 
fragments of pottery, etc., from Romney, West Virginia, given 
by G. H. Johnson ; fragments of a steatite pot from Ledyard, 
