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lected in Maine, New Brunswick, and Pennsylvania, were likewise made 

 by Mr. Boardman, Dr. Todd, Mr. Blake, Mr. Haley, Mr. Leonard Pea- 

 body, Mr. Hollis, and Mr. J. Hamilton. Prom Colonel E. Jewett, of 

 Utica, the Institution has received an extensive and choice collec- 

 tion of relics especially rich in pipes and ornaments, beads, amulets. 

 &c, gathered principally in New York and adjacent States. Mr. Bobert 

 Howell, of Tioga county, New York, has made several interesting con- 

 tributions in the same line, and others have been received from the same 

 region at the hands of Mr. Stephen Forman and Mr. Jacob Stratton. 

 Scarcely inferior in extent and variety to the collection of Mr. Jenks is 

 one made by the late Hon. George M. Keim, of Beading, principally in 

 central Pennsylvania, but also in Texas and Ohio. In this is found the 

 first specimen of a choice flint hoe, similar to that described by Professor 

 Bau, in the Smithsonian Beport for 1863, a second specimen of which has 

 just been received from Mr. Granville Turner, of Illinois. The collection of 

 Gerferal Keim was presented to the Institution by his children as a memo- 

 rial of their father, and a very large and choice cabinet of minerals has, we 

 learn, been given by them to Lehigh University with a similar object^ 

 Specimens from western Pennsylvania have been received from Dr. Wal- 

 ker. 



The principal donations from the vicinity of Washington have been 

 made by Mr. O. N. Bryan, some of which are very choice; by Mr. J. W. 

 Slagle, and Mr. Tyler. Specimens from the eastern shore of Virginia 

 have been presented by Mr. C. B. Moore. Mr. W. H. Edwards, of West 

 Virginia, has contributed a number of choice articles from the Kanawha 

 river and elsewhere, some of them unique. Mr. E. A. Dayton, an 

 esteemed correspondent of the Institution, in the course of an extended 

 tour through Tennessee and Kentucky last year, took advantage of the 

 occasion to gather collections, and awaken an interest in the subject 

 which has resulted in large additions to our cabinet. Our attention 

 having been called by Mr. Dayton to a remarkable stone idol found near 

 the mouth of a cave at Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, a correspondence 

 was entered into with its owner, Captain E. M. Grant, which resulted 

 in its being sent to the Institution. The most important collection of 

 ethnological material yet received, however, is that presented by Captain 

 J. H. Devereux, of Cleveland, Ohio, embracing a large number of nearly 

 every variety of ancient stone implements, principally of Tennessee and 

 Ohio, among them specimens of pottery of very different patterns 

 from those usually met with. Some of them are remarkable for smooth- 

 ness of surface and symmetry of outline, as well as for the style of orna- 

 mentation. We have stated before that a series of casts of the principal 

 objects described in the first volume of the Smithsonian Contributions to 

 Knowledge had been purchased, and it may be mentioned in this con- 

 nection that other articles described in the same volume are in posses- 

 sion of Mr. W. S. Vaux, of Philadelphia, who obtained them through the 

 purchase of the valuable collection of Mr. James McBride, of Ohio, whose 



