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found more of these kiud of implements tUau perfect ones. He has never found any 

 stone tools in or near the shell-heaps that he thought were deposited or buried with 

 human remains, but Mr. Phelps and himself took from a deposit, which was found 

 four miles from the salt water, about one hundred and fifty stone tools of diiferent 

 kinds, all perfect and some very nicely finished. They were mostly celts and spear- 

 heads. Of the five rude implements which he sent four are paleolithic. Accession 

 20251 ; catalogue Nos. 139151, 139152. 



Aug. C. Hamlin, Bangor, Maine, February 18, 1888. Has no rude implcraeuts and 

 knows of none. Thinks he has seen a few similar, but believes them to have been 

 of recent date. 



J. L. M. Willis, Eliot, Maine, February 16, 1888. Has five rude implements. One 

 from New Jersey, two from North Cai-olina, and two from Newbury, Massachusetts. 

 (One of argillite, two of quartz, two of fine granite.) 



Joseph Wood, Bar Harbor, Maine, February 7, 1888. Has four rude implements. 

 Gives drawings in outline. No. 1 from Stoneham, Massachusetts; Nos. 2, 3, and 4 

 from Bar Island, Bar Harbor, Maine. 



E. M. Goodwin, Hartland, Vermont, March 1, 1888. Has six or more. Sends out- 

 line drawings. Nos. 1 and 3 are flint found on the surface at Fairfield, Indiana. No. 

 2 is a dark flint found on the surface in Tennessee. No. 4 is of brown flint found on 

 the surface near a mound in Illinois. No. 5 is white quartzite found on the surface 

 near a system of eariih-works in Missouri. Other relics were found in close proximity. 

 No. 6 is a fragment of a polished implement of porphyritic stone found in a mound 

 in Fairfield, Indiana, associated Avith arrow and spear-points, and stone ornaments. 



John M. Currier, Newport, Vermont, February 8, 1888. He has gathered these im- 

 plements in Castleton, Monkton, New Haven, and Lincoln, in Vermont. Nearly all 

 have been donated to the University of Vermont, Vermont Historical Society, and to 

 the Smithsonian Institution. Material, Hudson River limestone, quartzite, and 

 jasper. Those of gray quartzite are the most common, next the Hudson River lime- 

 stone, and black marble. They are found on the surface. Has found some from 

 one-half to six inches in diameter. 



Prof. Henry W. Haynes, 239 Beacon street, Boston, Massachusetts, February 15» 

 1888. Has a collection of paleolithic implements; 23 from Trenton, New Jersey (five 

 his own find), Dr. Abbott; 2 from Allentown, Pennsylvania (A. F. Berlin), quartzite; 

 1 from Millbauk, Tennessee (A.F.Berlin); 16 from Little Falls, Minnesota (Miss 

 Babbitt), quartz; 10 from eastern Massachusetts (his own find), white quartz; 10 

 from northern New Hampshire (his own find), white quartz ; 1 from Bar Harbor, 

 Maine (his own find), white quarrz ; 1 from Perkins County, Georgia (his own find), 

 white quartz; 30 from Wakefield, Massachusetts (his own find), brown felsite ; 20 

 from eastern Massachusetts (his own find), brown felsite; 25 from Moosehead Lake, 

 Maine (his own find) green felsite, speckled with white quartz ; 4 from Plattsburgh, 

 New York (Dr. D. S. Kellogg); 7 from Washington, District of Columbia (his own 

 find), yellow, quartzite; 1 from Saguenay, Lower Canada; 1 from Castine, Maine 

 (N. S. True), fine grain argillite ; 10 from Burlington, Vermont (own find), pink 

 quartzite ; atotal of 162. 



The green felsite speckled with white quartz, from Moosehead Lake (twenty-five 

 specimens), is the same material of which most of the Indian implements are made, 

 which he found in the shell-heaps in the southeastern part of Maine, at Frenchman's 

 Bay and elsewhere. Has described his white quartz implements in Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., February 1, 1882, vol. xxi, p. 382. Mt ny of these were found in "hard 

 pan" or glacial till, 3 or 4 feet below the surface, and where no Indian implement 

 could be found. But has found some associated with Indian implements. Their 

 deposit seems to have been always accidental. 



Professor Haynes, of Boston, read a paper, February 1, 1882, before 

 the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. xxi, page 382, in which he 

 reports the finding of similar imph'meuts in various localities in New 



