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number of stone axes, chisels, and arrow-heads, a stone tomahawk, paint 

 mortar, and pipe. From Tuckerton, Mrs. Lewis Blackman has presented 

 a stone hoe, a sinker, nnmerons arrow-heads, and other stone imple- 

 ments. To Isaac Lea, LL. D., of Philadelphia, we are indebted for a 

 very fine stone ax found in New Jersey. 



From New York, Messrs. S. P. Forman and E. Howell, near Nick- 

 ols, have contributed ethnological articles, consisting of stone flesh- 

 ing chisels, arrow-heads, and flint knives ; and also, from Mr. Merritt, 

 near Farmingdale, we have a number of arrow-heads. From Western 

 New York, Dr. F. B. Hough, a diligent cooperator and accurate observer, 

 who long since began to make contributions to the Institution, has for- 

 wardedfrom his extensive collections a number of interesting objects. We 

 may mention a bowl, or deep dish, carved in soapstone ; a stone mortar, 

 a number of pipe-bowls, pipes, &c, with chisels, spear-heads, gouges, 

 and an Indian cradle profusely ornamented. 



From New England, Mr. S. A. Ladd, from the vicinity of Mere- 

 dith Tillage, New Hampshire, has contributed a considerable variety oi 

 stone implements, including two of those remarkable chisels, or gouges, 

 having a curved cutting edge ; also straight chisels, spear-heads, pestles, 

 fishing sinkers, perforated stone ornaments, and arrow-heads. From 

 Vermont, sent by Messrs. J. M. Currier, W. G. Norris, and It. Wheeler, 

 we have received a spear-head of native copper, of good workmanship, 

 but much corroded. The metal of this may have been obtained in bartei 

 from the Indians of Lake Superior, or from others living in Nova Scotia, 

 where the native metal exists. It was accompanied by a stone hoe, a 

 flat, triangul ar inrpleinent with a cutting edge, of which examples are some- 

 what rare, stone pestles, and lance-heads. Mr. Fearing Burr has presented 

 a cast in plaster of the most perfectly shaped pestle yet obtained, which, 

 at the end grasped by the hand, is worked to a sharp edge or comb, 

 pointed at one side. It was exhumed from an ancient Indian cemetery 

 near Hingham. Very large collections of stone implements have been 

 received from Dr. W. Wood, of East Windsor Hill, Connecticut, who 

 has devoted much time and exhibited great zeal in this branch of 

 research as well as in others connected with natural history. A liberal 

 donation is recorded from him of axes, hammers, chisels, spear-heads, 

 knives, gouges, pestles, perforated stones and hoes, and from these and 

 other parcels received from him, it may be justly inferred that his vicinity 

 was densely populated in former times by the savages who wrought 

 these articles. 



Canada, Neiv Brunswiclc, &e. — Much attention has been excited in the 

 Dominion of Canada upon the subject of aboriginal remains, chiefly 

 through the exertions of Principal Dawson, of McGill University, Mon- 

 treal, from whom a valuable series of Indian pottery, pipes of stone and 

 earthenware, perforated stone implements, &c, has been received. 

 Professor L. W. Bailey, of New Brunswick, also has presented several 

 stone axes, strings of wampum, spear-points, and arrow-heads, which 



