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the deer, and a few of the axes are provided with handles restored 
after the original patterns, these last having been, in almost every 
instance, too much decomposed for preservation. There are one 
hundred and seventy-eight objects belonging to the Age of Bronze, 
consisting of fragments of pottery, various implements of bronze, 
such as axes, spear and arrow points, sword blades, fish hooks, pins 
of various dimensions, pendants and other personal ornaments.” 
Besides these have been added the collection of the Boston 
Marine Society, the Thoreau collection, made chiefly about Con- 
cord, Mass., a collection of about a hundred objects of stone and 
pottery from Nicaragua, and a vast collection of Alaskan objects, 
mostly the work of coast Indians, known as Thlinkets, or more 
commonly as Kalooshes. ‘Nearly all the carvings in bone, horn 
and wood are of the most elaborate and skilfully wrought pat- 
terns.” These carvings are of unusual interest in connection with 
the pre-historic carvings by the Reindeer Folk of the caves of 
France, of which there are specimens in this museum. Indeed, 
we now have in this country a remarkably full series of the pre- 
historic remains of Europe, and with the magnificent series of 
American remains, within the last two or three years placed on 
exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, we have nearly as good 
materials as in Europe for the study of pre-historic man. 
Prof. Wyman gives a brief account of his explorations in Flor- 
ida, especially among the shell heaps. Among the bones, some of 
the tibiæ ‘‘ were very much flattened from side to side, as has been 
observed to be the case with some from other parts of the United 
States, and in the Old World, from the caves of Dordogne and 
Gibraltar.” 
Peasopy Acapemy or Scrence.*— The second and third annual 
‘reports contain an account of the dedication of the Museum in 
1869. In an appendix to the reports of the Director, is a note by 
Mr. Hyatt on a cuttlefish (Rossia palpebrosa Owen?) found at 
Manchester, Mass., where this species has long been used for bait 
by fishermen. It oe not before been met with except in the Arc- 
tic regions. The appendix also contains a “‘ Catalogue of Batra- 
chia and Reptilia obtained by J. A. McNiel in Nicaragua,” in 
which Prof. Cope seegeiber as new to science, a lizard, Tretioscin- 
R the Peabody Academy of Sci- 
ence, for the years 1869 and 1870. Pro 1871. 8vo, pp. 109. 
