OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XXXIX 
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 inthe 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 Jemezand 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 Stallings 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, 
