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in the Carolines. A good series of rasps ( Fig. lo) and two shell adzes 

 (Fig. 5) from the Gilbert Islands, and several good shell necklaces 

 were also added. In the Hawaiian matters we have received by 

 the kindness of Mr. C. C. Willoughb}^ a cast of a most interesting 



FIG. 6. 



and peculiar stone poi - pounder which I saw in the Peabody 

 Museum at Cambridge, Mass. A large flat stone dish (Fig. 6), 

 once in a heiau on Molokai, is the largest worked stone dish of 

 Hawaiian origin I have yet seen. 



Natural History Department. From Mr. Koebele we 

 obtained some fine bird skin*^, and from Ward's Establishment at 



