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Delaware River at Trenton, New Jersey, wherein Dr. Abbott had found 

 paleolithic implements, 20 pages; (2) The stone age in North America 

 divided into the paleolithic and neolithic periods, as manifested by 

 specimens in the U. S. National Museum (130 pages, 100 figures). 



Association Francaise: (t) The value of Niagara Falls as a chro- 

 nometer of antiquity (12 pages, 5 figures) ; (2) Instruments of hard 

 stone in America (14 pages). 



Since my return I have completed a report upon Prehistoric Anthro- 

 pology at the Paris Exposition, 1889, and upon the International Con- 

 gresses of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology ; Criminal An- 

 thropology ; Hygiene and Demography. 



IMPORTANT ACCESSIONS. 



From Mr. H. de Morgan, New York, New York, was purchased a collec- 

 tion of objects from prehistoric graves at or near Allah-Verdi, Armenia, 

 including bronze necklaces, bracelets, buttons, pins (plain and orna- 

 mented), pendant with chain attached, iron spear-heads and knives, 

 sharpening-stoues, shell beads, pottery vessels (bottles, urns, and 

 plates), a human skull and fragments of human bones; 105 specimens. 

 These objects were discovered and excavated by Mr. de Morgan in the 

 summer of 1888, and belong to the iron age in Armenia. (Aces. 22244 

 and 22264.) 



J. P. Monroe, Ringgold, Montgomery County, Tennessee, sent a 

 brass chain of peculiar manufacture from a mound in Montgomery 

 County, Tennessee. The chain was made of pieces of brass wire and 

 tubes alternating in the following manner: First, the wire, cut to the 

 required length, was enlarged at each end; second, a section of the 

 tube was then, by hammering or pressure, closed around the enlarge- 

 ment of the wire at one end — not enough to prevent motion inside the 

 tube, but sufficient to stop its removal. Another wire, being inserted 

 in the opposite open end of the tube, was made secure in the same way. 

 This process was continued until the chain was of the required length. 

 (Ace. 22697.) 



From Mr. Monroe's letter of transmittal I quote the following: 



The mound in which the chain was found is situated in the northern part of Mont- 

 gomery County, 16 miles from Clarksville. It is in a large body of timber and would 

 be seldom noticed. Its shape is oval and of the following dimensions : 60 by 46 feet 

 at the base, 16 feet diameter at the top, and 10 feet high. 



When first built the mound was higher and not so broad at the base, the rains and 

 snows of centuries having washed the dirt from the top. Of course this proceeded 

 very slowly, as the sides are covered with trees and undergrowth, the oak trees 

 being from 1 foot to 2 feet 6 inches in diameter. The graves were arranged in the 

 regulation way, i. e., flat rocks set upon edge, forrniug a box, iu which the body was 

 laid, and other rocks (slabs) placed across the top. These were near the surface 

 and disarranged, showing evidently that the mound had been dug iuto before, and 

 also accounts for the fact that no other specimens were found associated with the 

 chain, except some broken pieces of pottery. The chain being very small, was over- 

 looked by the hunters. 



