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ou the surface near Statesville, North Carolina. Accession 20479; catalogue Nos. 

 139356-139361. 



J. R. Nissley, Ada, Ohio, March 14, 188B. Sends twelve specimens, five of which 

 are possibly paleolithic (type Solatreen). Found on the surface at Red River Spring 

 Creek and Elk Fork, Todd County, Kentucky, and Montgomery County, Tennessee. 

 Accession 20345 ; catalogue Nos. 139200-139203. 



J. Freshwater, Loudonville, Ohio, February 1, 1888. Sent one leaf shaped cut- 

 ting implement. Not paleolithic. Found' ou the surface at Loudonville. Lives in 

 a river valley where there is from 150 to 200 feet of drift ; never found any worked 

 implements in the gravel or drift. Accession 20189 ; catalogue No. 139027. 



D. T. D. Dyche, Ijcbanon, Ohio, February 8, 1888. Sends forty-live specimens; 

 all from Wan-en County, Ohio. Found on the surface, thirteen of which are paleo- 

 lithic. Accession 20174 ; catalogue Nos. 138999-139006. 



J. A. Stevenson, Akron, Ohio, March 16, 1888. Sends collections of three hun- 

 dred and eighty-five specimens. Four rude implemeuts (paleolithic) from Summit 

 County, Ohio, and fourteen rude implements (paleolithic) from Juniata County, 

 Pennsylvania. Accession 20371; catalogue Nos. 13929.3-139324. 



Warren K. Moorehead, Xenia. Ohio, February 7, 1888. Has thirty rude imple- 

 ments of flint. Sends ten (paleolithic) implements from the undisturbed gravel, 

 Little Miami River, Fort Ancient, Warren County, Ohio, and ten (paleolithic) from 

 the gravel on the bed of " Old Town Run," 3 miles north of Xenia, Greene County, 

 Ohio. Found 2 or 3 feet from surface, associated with flint flakes. Deposit acci- 

 dental. Not found 'in mounds or tombs. Accession 20330 ; catalogue Nos. 139198- 

 139199. 



James C. Wright, Fredonia, Ohio, February 27, 1888. Sends fifty specimens, six 

 of which are paleolithic (type Solutreen).' Material flint or burr-stone. Found 

 upon the surface iu Licking County, associated with arrow aud spear points. A few 

 of the leaf-shaped implements have been found in mounds. Accession 20550 ; cata- 

 logue Nos. 139431-1394.58. 



C. T. Wiltheiss, Piqna, Ohio, March 6, 1888. Sends fifty-seven specimens, prin- 

 cipally of flint, seventeen of which are paleolithic (type Solutreen). These imple- 

 ments wash out of the east bank of the Miami River on the bottom lands, from a 

 stratum of yellow clay covered by a layer of black loam 3 or 4 feet in thickness. Ac- 

 cession 20311; catalogue Nos. 1391bl-139193. 



Carey Bell, Utica, Ohio, March 22,1888. Has quite a number of rude implements, 

 principally of chert or flint. Mostly surface finds, associated with finer (better 

 finished) specimens. Sends twenty-five specimens, six of which are paleolithic. Ac- 

 cession 20413 ; catalogue Nos. 139326-139332. 



H. W. Hanna, Warsaw, Indiana, February 9, 1888. Has several rude implements. 

 Sends one specimen (paleolithic) of flint. Found on the surface in Wabash County, 

 Indiana. Accession 20180 ; catalogue No. 139020. 



W. H. Hanna, Warsaw, Indiana, May 28, 1888. Sends a small rude implement, a 

 scraper, and three arrow-points. Found near the surface upon the bluff's above the 

 bottom lands of the Wabash River, near Warsaw. Not paleolithic. Accession 20717; 

 catalogue Nos. 139656-139658. 



G. K. Green, New Albany, Indiana, March 17, 1888. Sends fourteen specimens 

 (paleolithic), from ancient burying-ground at Clarksville, near mouth of Silver Creek, 

 ■which empties into the Ohio about 1 mile east of New Albany, and is a dividing line 

 between Clark and Floyd Counties, Indiana. Accession 20362 ; catalogue No. 139290. 



G. K. Green, New Albany, Indiana, May 18, 1888. Sends eight rude implements 

 (paleolithic). Accession 20633 ; catalogue Nos. 139494-139501. 



Dr. E. C. Black, Wheatland, Indiana, February 10^ 1888. Has fifteen rude imple- 

 ments, found iu a cache in the eastern part of Knox County, Indiana. Sends one 

 specimen (type Solutreen). Accession 20178; catalogue No. 139018. 



W. H. Adams, Elmore, Illinois, February 8, 1838. Sends sixty implements— flakes, 



