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In company with other membei's of the Institute, as well as alone, 

 I visited a few of the places within easy reach of the city, and was 

 enabled to add several hundred excellent specimens to our collection. 



A number of gentlemen also who had small collections kindly 

 presented them to the Institute, and, by an arrangement made with 

 the York Pioneers, our Society became custodian of a large number 

 of Indian and other specimens which are now in our cases. 



Owing to the rapid expansion of our knowledge as to a number of 

 places that are worthy of examination and survey, as well as because 

 of the many objects we have discovered in the hands of collectors, it 

 is to be deplored that our lack of funds precludes us from proceeding 

 in a systematic and scientific manner in the formation of an archaeo- 

 logical museum that would ultimately prove valuable to the Canadian 

 student, and it is to be regretted that the Provincial Legislature 

 failed to respond to our application for assistance in the prosecution 

 of this national work. 



The following is a list of the specimens that have been secured 

 during the year, and which are now in cases supplied by the Institute 

 at a cost of $100. The cases have an area of 100 square feet and 

 contain : — 



104 Pipe Heads and Stems. 

 92 Fragments of Pottery. 



3 Clay Cups. 



4 War Clubs. 



18 Strings of Beads. 



200 Loose Stone, Bone and Shell Beads. 

 8 Small Stone Disks — -Perforated. 

 13 Perforated Stone Tablets. 



19 Pieces of Shell. 



1 Piece Carved Bone. 



1 Small Animal — Stone Carving. 



2 Horn Gouges. 



1 Piece of perforated Horn. 



1 Complete Turtle Shell. 



1 Perforated " 



1 Piece of Human Skull, perforated. 



5 Skulls, almost perfect. 

 1 String of Bone Beads. 



44 Bone Needles. 

 460 Arrow Heads— (flint). 



7 " mounted (iron).. 



