THE PALEOLITHIC PERIOD OF THE STONE AGE. 691 



scrapers, cutting implements, etc., from Kitcheu Mounds, in Peoria and Knox Counties, 

 Illinois; also a map or chart of these monuds. Nothing paleolithic. Accession 20177 ; 

 catalogue Nos. 139011-131)017. 



W. H. Adams, Elmore, Illinois, April 1, 1888. Sends two rude implements (paleo- 

 lithic) of flint — surface finds from Peoria County, Illinois. Accession 20481 ; cata- 

 logue No. 139339. 



James C. Null, McKenzie, Tennessee, April 30, 1888. Has twenty-five rude imple- 

 ments of flint— surface finds. Sends a collection of two hundred and seventy-one 

 specimens from Carroll County, Tennessee, thirty of which are i^aleolithic. Accession 

 20545 ; catalogue Nos. 139414-139428. 



C. L. Stratton, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Fehruary 17, 1888. Sends box of stone 

 Implements from northern Georgia and Alabama (four hundred and sixteen speci- 

 mens) ; nothing paleolithic. Accession 20240 ; catalogue Nos. 139042-139055. 



C. A. Thompson, Quincy, Michigan, February 22, 1888. Has a few made of sand- 

 stone, slate, and chert ; found along the streams and in sandy ground. None have 

 ever been found in mounds. Deposit seemed accidental. Sends eighteen specimens, 

 three of which are paleolithic (type Solutreen). Accession 20353 ; catalogue Nos. 

 139205-139213. 



Charles Ruggles, Bronson, Michigan, February 15, 1888. Sends three rude imple- 

 ments (paleolithic), also drawings of others in his collection. All found on the sur- 

 face along the banks of two small brooks in Bronson, Michigan. Accession 20208; 

 catalogue No. 139030. 



William H. Sheldon, Climax, Michigan, April 2, 1888. Has forty-eight rude imple- 

 ments. Forty-seven are of flint, one of ironstone. Three were found on the surface. 

 Forty-four were in a nest or cache. Not associated with any other objects. Deposit 

 of the forty-four specimens intentional. Sends ten rude arrow and spear heads, etc. 

 Surface finds from Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Nothiug paleolithic. Accession 

 20807; catalogue Nos 139624-139631. 



J. E. Gere, Riceville, Wisconsin, May 21, 1888. Sends eighty stone implements — 

 flakes, scrapers, arrow and spear heads, etc., and ten pieces of native copper. All 

 from Wisconsin. Nothing paleolithic Accession 20653; catalogue Nos. 139511-139520. 



Horace Beach, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, February 6, 1888. Has twenty speci- 

 mens of flint, some found in mounds and others on the surface. Sends fifteen speci- 

 mens, none of Chellian type, three Solutreen. Accession 20171; catalogue Nos. 

 138985-138998. 



Dr. F. A. Steinmeyer, Bonaparte, Iowa, May 22, 1888. Sends five paleolithic im- 

 plements, one large and four small, found in the vicinity of Bonaparte, at a depth 

 ranging from 2 to 5 feet under the soil, which is clay. They Avere found in their 

 original positions and the deposit appeared to be accidental. Accession 20684 ; cata- 

 logue Nos. 139622, 139623. 



Davenport Academy of Natural Science, Davenport, Iowa. W. H. Pratt, curator, 

 June 19, 1888. Sends fifty-two specimens from Iowa and other States and Territories. 

 Five rude implements (paleolithic) from Louisa County, Iowa, and eight small rude 

 implements (paleolithic) from Alabama. The implements from Louisa County are 

 from what is locally designated "the Old Fort Grounds," now and for many years in 

 a corn-field. Forty years ago it was surrounded by an earth-wall averaging 4 feet in 

 height. (See Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. i, p. 109.) Accession 20751 ; cata- 

 logue Nos. 139632-139655, 



Marion Crawford, Kahoka, Missouri, February 27, 1888. Sends twenty-seven speci- 

 mens from Clark and Lewis Counties, Missouri, ten of which are paleolithic. Found 

 on the surface. Accession 20252 ; catalogue Nos. 139153-139179. 



Charles Teubuer, Lexington, Missouri, March 3, 1888. Has two hundred rude im- 

 plements of chert, found on the surface in Boone, Montgomery, Warren, Gasconade, 

 Osage, Cole, and La Fayette Counties, Missouri, principally La Fayette. Sends eleven 

 card photographs representing flint arrow-heads, etc., from Gasconade and other 



