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this country, and when mentioning the great numbers of antlers of 
deer and the implements made from them, states : 
“It is worthy of notice that in this collection a large part of all 
the antlers in which the base remains, were not such as came from 
animals killed in the chase, but such as had been dropped at the 
period when they were annually shed, as appears from the peculiar 
surface of the bone on the line of separation due to lena! gai: 
The horns of the deer seem to have been as great a mine of ma- 
terial to the lake dwellers for the ME of useful articles, 
as flint to the ancient penpan: of Denmark, stone to the North 
American Indians, or bone to the paa and the natives of 
the northwest coast of AUU Ca.” 
To Show that similar results are attained generally by aihir 
means, we quote a few lines on the drilled stones from the Clement 
collection : 
“The method of giltig is well illustrated in a variety of in- 
stances, some showing the action of a solid, and others of a hollow 
rotary drill. Some “of the last we re not finished, bút broken 
perhaps in the act of making, and the place from which the core 
was detached is quite obvious. A few of the cores are preserved. 
We thus have, as Mr. Rau has pointed out, processes of drilling 
parallel to those used by the Indians of this continent, g 
We may add that in the Academy collection there is a speci- 
men received from New York, which shows the core about a quar- 
ter of an inch high standing up from the bottom of a hole that 
had evidently been drilled for two or three inches by a hollow drill 
before the specimen had from some cause been broken. 
The letter of Mr. Dunning relating to his explorations in Ten- 
nessee and the account given by Prof. Wyman of the specimens 
collected are of great interest to the students of American archæ- 
ology, and correspond in several respects with the account given 
by Dr. Jones in a former number of this journal. Among the most ` 
interesting relics found in the Tennessee mounds were a number 
of carved shells which Prof. Wyman describes in his report, of 
which we hope to be able to give figures in a future num 
As an instance of the acute examination which the eee gives 
to the specimens that come under his charge, we quote the following 
remarks on pottery ornamentation : 
“ A large proportion of all the vessels as well as fragments 
in one way or another marked with the impressions of twisted 
cords. Similar markings have been observed on pottery from very , 
distant T of the United States, and have — observed on 
