THE PALEOLITHIC PERIOD OF THE STONE AGE. 



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Pennsylvania, A. F. Beklin. 



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Tennessee. J. Parish Stelle. 



(19959) 



Tennessee. W. M. Clarke. 



District of Columbia. James Webster. 



The Museum received two hundred and nine responses. The number 

 of implements reported by the correspondents from twenty-three States 

 and Territories is six thousand seven hundred aiid sixty-two, but 

 twenty-eight persons report an indefinite number in their collections 

 which is incapable of addition: "A few," "some," " many," " plenty," 

 " hundreds," " a large number," etc. These have not been counted into 

 this aggregate. Thirty-three persons sent one thousand one hundred 

 and eighty-nine of the "rude implements" for which they all received 

 an equivalent in exchange. The objects actually received from those 

 thirty-three persons were nearly double the number mentioned. Those 



