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22). This piece of pottery is evidently made of clay and sand. 
It is comparatively smooth on the inside, but more or less regu- 
larly wrinkled or ridged on the outside, the ridges undoubtedly 
being intended for ornamentation. On the inside of the piece of 
pottery there are two holes, which appear as if punched with a 
round instrument while the pottery was yet in a plastic state; 
the round instrument was not forced clear through the substance, 
but so nearly through that the material was raised into a protube- 
rance on the outside, just where each hole would have been had 
the instrument been forced through. One of these protuberances 
appears as if worn off, and thus an opening has been made from 
one side to the other ; the opening on the outside, however, is very 
small, as seen by the figure.* Two arrowheads, one of very fine 
jasper, and the other of coarse jasper, were found with the pottery. 
y rods farther down the stream, and on a much lower 
terrace, Mr. Winship called my attention to what he called a ‘‘ race- 
course.” It was apparently an old race-course, circular, and with 
a diameter of two hundred and fifty or three hundred feet; and 
the “track” is quite plain, being indicated by a well marked de- 
pression. That this is no modern affair is shown by the stump of 
a large oak which is standing right in the middle of the track, and 
which of course shows us that the tree of which it is a part grew 
from an acorn which germinated there since the track ceased to be 
used. — Sanborn Tenney, Williams College. 
NOTES. 
Prorrssor AGassiz recently addressed the Massachusetts Legis- 
lative Committee on Public Education, on the present needs and 
future prospects of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He 
stated that the annual income amounts to a little over $10,000. 
This was insufficient to pay the salaries of the corps of twenty-six 
assistants, and individuals had generously aided the institution by 
gifts of from $1500, to $6000. The total amounts of these con- 
tributions, including grants, was $473,000. Its immediate neces- 
often ornamented with circular impressions on the outside, 
Rite: made by a at hollow bone or iar but -m F the preia instance that has 
come under my notice of the imp g .P. 
