1883,] 115 (Phillips. 
grooved axes, pipes, ornaments, &c.; about 800 objects of shell, beads, 
&¢.; about 600 bronze implements and ornaments ; about 600 shell-heap 
remains ; about 700 mound remains; and about 800 cave remains. It is 
catalogued and the locality given where each specimen was found. ‘‘It 
is considered the largest existing collection of North American antiquities,’ 
writes Professor Baird. The display is made in sixty-two glass cases, in 
a hall 200 feet long by 50 wide, 
Prasopy Musrum or AmpricAN ARCHAOLOGY AND Ermnonoay, Can- 
bridge, Mass. 
The Museum was founded by the gift’ of $160,000 by Mr. George Pea- 
body, in 1866. 
The Museum has made a number of special explorations from which 
large returns have come, among which may be mentioned the exploration 
by Prof. Hartt in Brazil, those by Dr. Flint in Central America, and the 
many special explorations in North America, including those of Dr. 
Palmer in various parts of Mexico, and among the Indians of the South- 
west; of Miss Fletcher among the Indians of the West; of the late Dr. 
J. Wyman (the first curator) in Florida and along the Atlantic coast, 
of Dr. Schumacher on the coast of California ; Mr. H. Gilman in Michi- 
gan, of Prof. Andrews in Ohio, Mr. Dunning in Tennessee, Dr. Abbott 
in New Jersey, Dr. Metz in Ohio, Mr. Curtis in Tennessee and Arkansas, 
and the explorations of Prof. Putnam in various parts of the country, par- 
ticularly of New England shell-heaps, of mounds and ancient burial places 
in the Western and Southwestern States, of caves in Kentucky, ete., eto, 
“The Museum’? writes Prof, F. W. Putnam, its curator, “contains by 
far the most important collections in existence relating to the archeeology 
of America as a whole. (In ethnological material it is not so well off, 
but it contains pretty large collections of that.) The arrangement of the 
Collections is based upon a geographical distribution of the materials in the 
Several exhibition halls, but it is made to embrace an ethnological and 
ircheological presentation of the subject. Every specimen in the Museum 
(over 300,000) is catalogued and numbered, and unless the exact locality 
and conditions under which a specimen was found is known, it is con- 
sidered as worthless for exhibition, and of no value to an archeological or 
ethnological series.’ 
Prasopy AcAprEmy or Scrmncr, Salem, Mass. 
This collection is composed of those of the East India Marine Society 
(begun in 1 99), and of the Essex Institute (1826), which in 1867 were per- 
Manently placed in the East India Marine Hall, purchased and refitted by 
the Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science in that year. 
The Department of American Archrology contains 2390 catalogue 
numbers, in all about 5500 specimens; axes, 100; celts, 150; gouges, 
150; club-heads, 50; hammer-stones, 50; long stones (pestles), 100; 
discs, 10; spear-points, 500; arrow-points, 2000; scrapers, 200; bones 
