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Oliver D. Schock, Hauiburgh, Penusylvauia, April, 1888. No iuforniation. 



G. S. Lamborn, Liberty Square, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1888. Has seven speci- 

 mens of hard brown saudstoue, black trap, quartzite, gray and black jasper. Sur- 

 face finds from the banks of rivers and in plowed fields. No duplicates. 



George S. Lamborn, Liberty Square, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1889. Since writing 

 last has come in possession of a stone implement — very hard — of ash color, with small 

 end somewhat broken. Inclosed a sketch. The dotted liaes were probably the origi- 

 nal edge, tolerably sharp. The outside lines were drawn looking at it the broad 

 way; the inside are looking against the edge. The sketch is full size. He has never 

 before seen one like it. It was found at McCall's Ferry, Lancaster County, Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Eev. W. M. Taylor, Mount Jackson, Pennsylvania, April 12, 1888. Has but few 

 rude implements. Will look for some this summer. 



Nortnan Spang, Etna, Penusylvauia, February 6, 1888. Has had many hundreds. 



F. W. Brown, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1888. Has none and knows 

 of none. 



C. John Hexamer, 419 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 7, 

 1888. Has none. 



S. H. Zahm, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1888. Has six hundred rude 

 implements, principally of gray stone or trap rock, white quartz, jasper, and flint, 

 found on the banks of the Susquehanna River and in plowed fields in Pennsyl- 

 vania and Maryland, and in Florida on the banks of a lake, associated with arrow 

 and spear points, axes, etc. Deposit seemed accidental. Has some which he would 

 exchange for objects not in his collection. 



George H. Clapp, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1888. Has thirty of argil- 

 lite and flint, found on the surface in the Ohio River Valley, 13 miles below Pitts- 

 burgh, associated with chips and finished arrow and spear heads. Deposit seemed 

 accidental. 



I. S. Geist, secretary Natural History Lyceum, Marietta, Pennsylvania. (No date.) 

 Has none. 



J. D. McGuire, EUicott City, Maryland, February 9, 1888. Has about three hun- 

 dred of quartz or quartzite, found on the Eastern Branch Potomac River, District of 

 Columbia; Patapsco River near Relay, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Maryland; 

 South River Neck, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and a few from his farm, Howard 

 County, Maryland. Found on surface at high flood-line of these streams. Has a 

 cache of twenty from Anne Arundel County. Ten feet away was another cache. One 

 cache of one hundred ; one of twenty-six. All of the cache implements found near 

 oyster- shell heaps. 



Mem. — May not these belong to the prehistoric man who made the shell heaps? 

 There are believed to have been two epochs of prehistoric culture represented in the 

 kjoeknnmoddings of Denmark. The shell heaps of America should be carefully ex- 

 amined for evidences of paleolithic man or for an earlier epoch than the neolithic 

 period. 



O. N. Bryan, Marshall Hall, Maryland, February 23, 1888. Sent a large number to 

 the Smithsonian Institution last spring. 



E. Stanley Gary, Baltimore, Maryland, February 6, 1888. No infor.nation. 



Otis Bigelow, Avenel, Maryland, February 8, 1888. Has already deposited his col- 

 lection in the Smithsonian Institution. Knows of workshop on the Mattapony in 

 Guineys, Caroline County, Virginia. 



Alexander C. Black, Army Medical Museum, Washington, District of Columbia, 

 February 10, 1888. Has none. Has given all his specimens to the Smithsoniou In- 

 stitution. All were surface finds from Randolph County, Indiana. Never found in 

 mounds. 



Albert S. Gatchet, Washington, District of Columbia, February 7, 1888. Has none. 

 Sends lists of museums in Switzerland. 



