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U. Jf. Clarity Nashville^ Tennessee. — Collection from differetil lo< 

 biea in Tennessee: Bade chipped implements, leaf-shaped implements 

 (one of obsidian, very fine), scrapers, arrow and spear-heads, chipped 

 celt-gouge with polished catting edge, large chipped di ools, pit- 



ted stones, a grinding-stone (a good specimen), polished celts, grooved 

 axes, pestles, a cylindrical crushing-implement, a hematite sinker, pierced 



tablets, carved stone pipes (some very good), a el;iy pipe, fragments ol 

 shells [BusoifOOn }><rr<rsum\ shell beads, enerinites, clay vessels 



(3 of them entire), fragments of pottery, and 3 human skulls, with frag 



inents of jaws. 



//. /.'. Smith, Tulip, Dallas County, Arkansas. — Twelve arrow-heads of 

 exquisite workmanship, from Dallas County, and a collection of leaf- 

 shaped implements, cutting- tools, scrapers, perforators, arrow and spear- 

 heads, and celts from the vicinity of Tulip Creek, :; miles west of Tulip. 

 The specimens are surface i'.mls, and the place where they were found 

 was once a large camping-ground. 



C. M. Smith, New Madison, Darke County y Ohio. — Collection from 

 Flint Ridge, Licking County, Ohio: Hammer-stones of flint, granite, 

 quartzite, &c, flint cores, flakes, rude and leaf-shaped implements, 

 scrapers, cutting-tools, and arrow-heads. The cores and flakes are ex- 

 ceptionally fine. 



Dr. E. 11. Davis, New York, N.Y. — Collection of plaster molds for re- 

 producing the mouud-pipes collected by Messrs. Squier and Davis during 

 their Ohio survey, and various other archaeological objects belonging to 

 the Davis collection now in the Blackinore Museum at Salisbury, Eng- 

 land. The molds are a valuable acquisition, as complete sets of easts 

 of the pipes, &c, can now be made. 



Robert Ridgway, United States National Museum. — Two arrow-heads 

 from Monteur's Pond, It) miles east of Yiucennes, Indiana. In these 

 arrowheads the edges are beveled on opposite sides. They are per- 

 haps the best specimens of the kind in the collection. 



Statement of character of routine work in arranging and classifying the 

 collections, and preparing the exhibition and study series. 



The arranging, classifying, and preparing for exhibition of the collec- 

 tions received has been continued in accordance with the plan indicated 

 in my annual report for 1883. Practically there are but three classes 

 oi' series of specimens entered in this department: 1. Exhibition and 

 Btudy series, which embraces all good specimens. 2. Duplicates, util- 

 ized tor exchange. 3. Storage, broken stone specimens, and other frag- 

 ments of no value whatever. 



List of special collections which have been placed on exhibition during 



the year. 



Collection from Alaska: C. L. McKay. 



Collection from shell heaps, Cape Mendocino, Humboldt County, Cali- 

 fornia : John J. McLean. 



