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shaped articles, pendants, drilled ceremonial objects, stone tubes and 

 pipes, hematite mullers, and discoidal stones ; 171 specimens in all. 

 The localities where found are indicated in all cases. (Ace. 22813.) 



S. V. Proudflt, Falls Church, Virginia, deposited a large collection 

 (2,345 specimens) from the District of Columbia and its environs, consist- 

 ing of arrow and spear-points, knives, rude implements (palaeolithic 

 type), scrapers, perforators, hammer-stones, pitted stones, polished 

 hatchets, grooved axes, rude notched implements, mortars, pestles, 

 pierced tablets, ceremonial objects, fragments of potstone vessels, and 

 fragments of pottery. This collection is the result of years of work in 

 the field, and is a valuable addition to the Museum, for it represents 

 the archaeology of the District of Columbia in a complete manner. (Ace. 

 22631). 



Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, through Prof. F. W. 

 Putnam, sent in exchange a collection from the ancient cemetery and 

 ashpits at Madisonville, Ohio, embracing stone hatchets, hammer and 

 sharpening-stoues, small rude implements, scrapers, perforators, and 

 arrow-points of flint and jasper, clay vessels, aud fragments of pottery. 

 Also halves of the bone-scrapers peculiar to this cemetery, worked pieces 

 of antler (chisels aud points of weapons), cylindrical pieces of antler, 

 burnt bones, piece of bone ornamented with incised lines, bird bone show- 

 ing method of cutting off a bead, bone beads aud points, bone splinters — 

 long, thin, and worked to a point at each end — fish spines probably used 

 as awls, bones aud teeth of animals, burnt corn, and a sample of ashes 

 from one of the pits ; 324 specimens. (Ace. 23111). 



Dr. Hilborn T. Cresson, iNo. 224 South Broad street, Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, deposited palaeolithic implements found below the sur- 

 face in undisturbed gravel at the depths indicated: quartzite, Up- 

 land, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 8 feet ; quartzite, Uplaud, Ches- 

 ter County, Pennsylvania, 11 feet ; quartzite, Gray's Ferry, Baltimore 

 and Ohio Bailroad cut, 4 feet ; quartzite, Gray's Ferry, Baltimore and 

 Ohio Bailroad cut, 6 feet; quartzite, Gray's Ferry, Baltimore and Ohio 

 Bailroad cut, 7£ feet; quartzite, Naaman's Creek cut, 5| feet; quartz- 

 ite, near Darley's Bridge cut, 3 J feet; quartzite, Peat Layer, near Dar- 

 ley's Bridge, dredged, 10 feet; quartzite, Kaaman's Creek, near Bich- 

 mond Brickyard, 14 feet; quartzite, near Wilmington, Delaware, 8 

 feet; quartzite, near Wilmington, Delaware, 12 feet; white quartz, 

 talus, at base of cut, Upland, Chester County, Pennsylvania ; argillite, 

 talus, at base of cut, Carpenter's Station, near Darley's Bridge, Balti- 

 more and Ohio Bailroad; quartzite, surface, Piney Branch, District of 

 Columbia, 14 specimens in all. (Ace. 23198.) These implements are 

 only deposited as a loan by Dr. Cresson, though I have no doubt he 

 will permit them to remain indefinitely. Although few in number and 

 their money- value not great, I can scarcely overestimate their scientific 

 value. They are the first implements found in undisturbed clay and 

 gravel, independent of any glacial action, and I see no reason why they 

 are not preglacial. They correspond in appearance aud industry with 



