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which is all the more valuable since very little is known of 

 these tribes, and they are as yet practically uninfluenced by 

 contact with Europeans. In particular that section of the 

 collection illustrating the carving of wood and the manufacture 

 of textile fabrics is practically exhaustive, and will prove of 

 exceptional value to students of primitive art. 



IV. — Ethnography of Oceania and Axistx-alia : — 



Donations. — A loom from Santa Cruz Island ; given by the 

 Rev. R. H. Codrington, d.d. 



A wooden- bowl from the Admiralty Islands j given by 

 A. W. F. Fuller, Esq. 



A so-called "gravestone," from the neighbourhood of 

 \Vilcania, New South Wales ; given by W. A. Lang, Esq. 



Six corroboree-sticks and a sei^nes of stone flakes from the 

 Alroy desert, Northern Territory, Australia ; given by W. 

 Stalker, Esq. - 



\ .—Antiquities and Ethnography of America : — 

 Donations. — A pottery bowl with painted design from the 

 Hopi of Arizona; given by W. Crevvdson, Esq., f.s.a. 



A large series of stone and bone implements and pottery 

 fragments, from Taltal, Chile ; given by 0. H. Evans, Esq. 



A pottery head from Honduras, and an ornamented gourd 

 from British Guiana ; given by A. W. F. Fuller, Esq. 



A series of stone celts from Grenada, and pottery fragments 

 from Carriacou Island ; given by W. Gillespie, Esq. 



A series of stone arrowheads from Patagonia ; given by 

 D. Harford, Esq. 



A series of stone arrowheads from the territory of the 

 "Five Nations," and two stone pendants from Ohio, U.S.A. ; 

 given by R. L. Merrick, Esq. 



A copy of the donor's work " Certain Mounds in Arkansas "^ ; 

 given by Clarence B. Moore, Esq. 



A bowstring from British Guiana ; given by C. Praetorius, 

 Esq., F.S.A. 



A jadeite bead from Mitla, Mexico ; given by C. H. Read, 

 Esq., p.s.A. 



A copper celt, a stone celt, and a pottery whistle from 

 Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico ; given by E. E. Stevens, Esq. 



Charles H. Read. 



