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and intelligence who lias founded an ethnological museum at Salis- 

 bury, has made several visits to this country for the purpose of obtain- 

 ing additions to his collectious. He has purchased of Di\ E. H. Davis, 

 for a large sum of money, the archaeological specimens described and 

 figured in volume I of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 

 Though it may, perhaps, be a matter of regret that Congress did not 

 make an appropriation for the purchase of these interesting specimens, 

 it is still gratifying to the lovers of science, irrespective of nationality, 

 that they will be perpetually preserved and rendered available for the 

 advancement of ethnology. While we ourselves were not able to retain 

 in this country the originals, we have procured a complete set of fac- 

 similes in plaster, which, for general investigation, are nearly as valua- 

 ble as those from which they were taken. 



The Institution is indebted to Mr. Blackmore for a series of pho- 

 tographs of American Indians; a model of Stouehenge; a number 

 of electrotype copies of ancient medals ; and a copy of a work writ- 

 ten by Thomas Inman, M. D., for private distribution, on "Ancient 

 Faith embodied in Ancient Names." Mr. Blackmore is enthusias- 

 tically interested in ethnology, and devotes his spare time, as well 

 as a large portion of his ample means, to the prosecution of the 

 subject. The museum which he has founded and munificently endowed 

 consists of specimens intended to illustrate the anthropology of every 

 part of the world, and is freely opened to the public, either for casual 

 visits or for critical study. An account of it will be given in the appen- 

 dix of this report, under the head of ethnology. We have found in Mr. 

 Blackmore an efficient and liberal collaborator, who evinces a disposi- 

 tion amply to repay, in returns of specimens and information, the con- 

 tributions we may be able to make to the stores he has already accumu- 

 lated. In his late visit to this country he thinks he has found speci- 

 mens of the early drift period, or of the first indications of the works of 

 man on the earth, not previously known to exist on this continent. The 

 locality of these remains is about 50 miles from Fort Bridger, in Utah 

 Territory, and will not be forgotten as a point of special interest in our 

 explorations. 



It is now generally known that, in times long anterior to the dawn of 

 authentic history, the practice extensively prevailed of constructing 

 human habitations upon wooden piles driven into the shallow water of 

 lakes, remains of which have been found especially in Switzerland, but 

 also in other countries. Upon these piles platforms were placed and 

 habitations erected, not for temporary occupation, merely, but for pro- 

 longed residence. Of these archaeological remains accounts have been 

 given in previous reports, and during the past year arrangements have 

 been made, through the exchanges of the Institution, to obtain speci- 

 mens from the more important localities in which they are found. 



The following is an account of the more important explorations and 

 additions to the collections of the Institution which have been made 



