688 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



Massachusetts. Material, porphyritic felsite. Found down to 18 inches below the 

 surface. Accession 20159; catalogue Nos. 137610-1.3761f. 



Willard Nye, jr., New Bedford, Massachusetts, May 9, 18S8. Sends ten specimens; 

 disks of quartz, porphyry, etc. Found on the surface at the west end of Martha's 

 Vineyard Island, Massachusetts, associated with arrow and spear beads, drills, 

 scrapers, and fragments of pottery. Accession 20.579 ; catalogue No. 139439. These 

 probably belong to the shell-heaps, and may not be paleolithic. 



Merritt Willis, West Farms, New York City, February 12, 1888. Sends two rude < 

 implements (paleolithic) from Trenton, New Jersey, and one from West Chester, New 

 York. Accession 20331 ; catalogue Nos. 139194-139195. 



Dr. A. L. Benedict, Buffalo, New York, March 16, 1888. Sends thirty flint imple- 

 ments (type Solutreen) from Buffalo, New York, and five rude implements (type Solu- 

 treen) from Fort Erie, Cauada. They were found on the sites of Indian villages asso- 

 ciated with other stone implements. Deposit accidental. These rude implements 

 are found in great number all around the falls on both sides. Accession 20365 ; cata- 

 logue Nos. 139291-139292. 



F. Eoulet, Newark Valley, New York, June 4, 1883. Sends sixteen specimens, 

 fourteen of which are paleolithic (type Solutreen). Material slate, limestone, etc. 

 All found in Pennsylvania, mostly along the banks of the Susquehanna River. Acces- 

 sion 20688; catalogue Nos. 139618-139620. 



A. G. Richmond, Canajoharie, New York, June 17, 1888. Sends collection of three 

 hundred and ninety-five specimens, embracing hammerstones, scrapers, and arrow- 

 points (flint and chert), notched sinkers, fragments of pottery, shell, bones, etc., from 

 old Indian village sites in the Mohawk Valley, Montgomery County, New York. Only 

 four of these specimens can be classed as paleolithic. Accession 20784; catalogue 

 Nos. 139667-139720. 



Dr. B. D. Skinner, Greenport, New York, February 20, 18-i8. Sends twenty rude 

 implements (paleolithic) of quartz; found upon the surface over glacial drift in the 

 vicinity of Greenport, Long Island, New York. Accession 20238; catalogue Nos. 

 139037-139041. These probably belong to shell heaps, and may or may not be paleo- 

 lithic. 



W. W. Adams, Mapletou, New York, February 27, 1888. Sends five specimens 

 (type Solutreen). Material, chert; found on the surface in the vicinity of Mapleton. 

 Accidental deposit. Has no mor^^. Accession 20248 ; catalogue No. 139150. 



W. W. Tooker, Sag Harbor, New York, March 9, 1888. Has one hundred rude 

 implements, majority of quartz, others of slate, argillite, etc.; found on the surface, 

 in shell-heaps, on village sites, and in deposits from 3 to 5 feet in depth. Sends six- 

 teen rude implements (paleolithic), principally of quartz ; from the surface and from 

 shell-heaps, in the vicinity of Sag Harbor, New York. Has never found them (rude 

 implements) as described by Dr. Abbott. Has found them at the talus of the bluffs. 

 Rude axes have been found in digging wells at great depths. 



Accession 20418; catalogue Nos. 139340-139355. These probably belong to shell- 

 heaps, and may or may not be ijaleolithic. 



Howard B. Davis, Reading, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1888. Sends twenty-two 

 specimens, six of which are paleolithic; found along the Schuylkill River about one 

 mile south of Reading in freshly ploughed fields. Deposit accidental. Accession 

 20210; catalogue Nos. 139031-139036. 



J. M. M. Gernerd, Muncy, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1888. Sends one hundred and 

 fifty specimens and has one hundred and fifty left. These implements (type Solutreen) 

 are from Muncy Valley, along west bank of Susquehanna River. Surface finds. 

 None ever found in mounds. Accession 20191 ; catalogue No. 139026. 



A. Sharpless, West Chester, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1888. Sends three speci- 

 mens, two of which are paleolithic ; found on the surface with chips of quartz on 

 what was evidently an old camping ground near West Chester. Pennsylvania. Ac- 

 cession 20158, catalogue Nos. 137608-137609. Speaks of several nests (caches) found 

 in his neighborhood on the Brandy wine. 



