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shells of Marginella conoidalis. A great number of this 8 
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heaps and near them, as well as in the burial or earth mounds, 
fragments of pottery, and arrowheads of chalcedony, and other 
implements of stone and shell may be found; and near the Point 
Pinallis mounds a remarkable vase of steatite, shaped somewhat i 
like an ordinary soup tureen, had been discovered. The material 
of which this vase is made was probably obtained by the Indians 
at Apalachicola, near which place a deposit of soapstone existed, 
and the material for the arrowheads was without doubt obtained i 
at the elevated and now fossilized coral reef in Hillsborough Bay, 
known as Ballast Point, not far from the town of Tampa. M 
Stearns also briefly referred to the statements of the narrator of 
the De Soto Expedition relative to the abundance of pearls which 
were seen in possession of the Indians, and which were said to be : 
obtained by some of the soldiers of De So He was of the + 
to’s men thought were pearls, were the 
t hell had 
been found in an ancient mound in the city of St. Louis. : 
Dr. Gibbons presented a copy of the “ Oriental Medical Gr 
zette” of Constantinople, which contained a paper by Dr. A a 
lah Bey, descriptive of the contents of the mounds in Europ, 
Asia and Africa; the writer advancing the theory that the mound : 
works being similar all over the world, they should be attributed - 
in their origin to one race. ; : 
Mr. Wetmore referred to some interesting develo 
in the shell mounds of South America. 
_ Prof. H. G. Hanks presented remarkably fine spee 
jasper and tourmaline from Calaveras County. ; a 
“ CENTRAL Park Museum.— Destruction of Mr. Hawkins’ we 
tions.— A Tımes reporter called yesterday on Mr. B. ware 
Hawkins in order to ascertain the truth of the allegations nt 
in a communication which appeared in yesterday’s T x Park 
erence to the destruction of his restorations in the e i 
Museum. r. Hawkins stated that all he had € gals 
twenty-one months to restore the skeletons of the extine 
pments made 2 
imens of 
arted away to Mount St. Vincent where the remains 2 er other 
several feet below the surface. The preparatory sketene a 
