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a curious earthenware pipe and a dress ornament ; Drs. McCoy and 

 Maxwell, for themselves and friends, a collection of stone hatchets, 

 spear-heads, and other stone relics. The most remarkable objects, how- 

 ever, from this State are from near Cannelton, and consist of two stone 

 mace-heads or casse-tetes, of hard ferruginous quartz, perforated through 

 their longer axes, polished and finished in a perfect manner. They were 

 presented by Mr. Hamilton Smith, with other stone relics. From Frank- 

 lin County, Indiana, Dr. E. Haywood and his friends and neighbors have 

 favored the Institution with a considerable collection of stone imple- 

 ments, many of fine workmanship, among which may be enumerated 

 stone pestles, axes, chisels, spears, and arrow-heads, stone ornaments, 

 and pottery. 



From Ohio, Mr. W. E. Limpert has contributed a collection, found at 

 Graveport, of well-finished articles ; consisting of a variety of stone pestles, 

 a mortar for grinding paint, a number of stone knives or chisels, and axes, 

 a perforated stone disk, over one hundred arrow-heads, a stone awl, and 

 other miscellaneous objects in stone. From Eev. Dr. Thompson, at 

 Milnersville, Ohio, we have received arrow-heads collected in his vicinity. 



From Kentucky, Mr. S. S. Lyon, whose archaeological researches in 

 1868 were of such interest in the mounds of Union County, has forwarded 

 additional articles, consisting of shell disks ornamented by carvings, a 

 fishing sinker of the same material, perforators of stone, and small 

 masses of galena worked into a rounded bead-like form. 



From Tennessee, Mr. S. L. Wilkinson, near Clarksville, has sent five 

 spear-points, a large number of arrow-heads, a stone disk, and a mortar 

 for grinding paint. Dr. Curtis has also favored us with a lot of arrow- 

 heads from Knox County. We have likewise to record the liberal 

 douation, by Mr. J. H. Devereux, of a very valuable series of stone iin- 

 jueinents and other objects, collected by himself, chiefly in Tennessee, 

 though some of the articles were obtained in other Southern States, as 

 well as a few from Ohio and Massachusetts. The perfect condition and 

 fine finish of these articles are remarkable, and they are so numerous as 

 to fill a separate case. They consist of every variety of form of axes, 

 chisels, gouges, knives, spear and arrow-heads, pipes, ornaments for the 

 person, of stone and of pottery articles, many of which are entirely 

 unique. 



From Arkansas, Mrs. Governor Throckmorton, of Little Eock, has 

 presented a pestle, grinding stone, and two paint mortars; and from the 

 same State, Mr. J. M. Stanley has sent a quantity of quills of the porcu- 

 pine, colored for use by the Indians in their embroidery. 



In Mississippi, Mr. T. J. E. Keenan, of Brookhaven, has shown zeal 

 in examining the natural and ethnological curiosities of his vicinity, and 

 has presented to us a large number of handsome arrow-heads of brown 

 jasper, a curious cylinder of the same mineral, a stone disk, and a pair 

 of ear pendants made of silver coins by an Indian boy. 



In Louisiana, opposite Vicksburg, Dr. E. Swift, United States Army, 



