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era Thibet, consisting of a pair of silver earrings, finger-ring, shirt- 

 buckle worn by women, a shirt-button; two kinds of Joss-sticks (in- 

 cense) used in Thibet. He also deposited a chased iron seal, scroll- 

 picture of the Lama convent of Tra shi thunpo in Thibet, strike-a-light 

 set with jewels with jade toggle, brass-teapot, sword, knife and chop- 

 stick in case, bow, arrow, and quiver, bow-case, and gold shirt-buckle. 



COREA. 



Doctor H. N. Allen, secretary of the Corean legation at Washington, 

 District of Columbia, deposited a large and valuable collection of 

 Coreau ethnological objects, and presented a specimen of gold ore from 

 the Wen San mines, in the province of Pyong an do. 



Mr. P. L. Jouy, of the U. S. National Museum, presented 10 speci- 

 mens, representing 4 species, of laud and fresh-water shells from Corea. 



P'rom Mr. W. W. Rockhill were received 3 8 Coreau paintings, repre- 

 senting costumes. 



INDIA. 



Mr. Edward Lovett, of Croydou, England, sent in exchange ethno- 

 logical specimens from India. A series of ethnographical and archaeo- 

 logical objects were also obtained from Mr. Lovett by purchase. 



From the National Museum, Oxford, England, through Mr. Henry 

 Balfour, was received in exchange a model of a Hindoo fire-drill. 



Dr. Joseph L. Hancock, of Chicago, Illinois, presented 14 specimens 

 representing 14 species of birds' skins from India. 



INDO-CHINA. 



Cambodia. — From Mr. L. H. Jammes, of Realmont Tarn, southwest 

 France, was purchased a collection of stone implements. The Mekong 

 River, the principal river in Cambodia, each year, by reason of the melt- 

 ing of the snows iu the mountains of the central plateau of Thibet, 

 overflows its banks and inundates the lower country, which it traverses. 

 Not far distant from the borders of an immense lake into which this 

 river empties, have been found vast shell-heaps, and from this locality 

 the specimens purchased from Mr. Jammes were obtained. The strata 

 of the heaps of shells show different stages of civilization. 



Tonquin. — Rev. A. Vathelet contributed 88 specimens of shells, com- 

 prising 30 species, from Tonquin and various localities. 



JAPAN. 



OmM. — From Mr. Romyn Hitchcock, of the U. S. National Museum, 

 was obtained by purchase a biva or balloon-guitar. 



Sapporo. — From the Sapporo Agricultural College, through Shosuke 

 Sato, acting director, was received, in exchange, a collection of Aino 

 articles. 



Tolcio. — The Insetsu Kioku (finance department), Tokio, through T. 

 Tokuno, chief of Insetsu-Kioku, sent in exchange a collection illustrat- 

 ing Japanese methods of engraving and printing, and also presented 



