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pyrites of hemispherical shape (mirror), a specimen of magnetite, 7 cop- 

 per bells, a copper chisel, G9 T-shaped axes (so called), and a specimen 

 of adobe. (Ace. 15686.) 



COSTA RICA. 



J. 0. Zeledon, San Jose, presented 5 stone celts, 2 pierced club- 

 heads (?), a metate (ornamented), 2 baking-plates, 2 stone carvings 

 representing human figures, a stone carving (head of human figure), a 

 small stone ornament, a natural formation (concretion), and a spool- 

 shaped object of clay. (Keceived in 1884.) 



PERU. 



From Dr. W. H. Jones, U. S. S. Wachusett, was received a carved 

 wooden image (human figure) from Chimbote. (Ace. 15755.) 



GUADELOUPE ISLAND, W. I. 



M. Louis Guesde, Pointe-a-Pitre, sent 4 celts and 17 notched axes 

 (mostly broken). (Ace. 15848.) 



ISLAND OF HAYTI. 



From the Trocadero Museum, Paris (through Dr. Hamy), was re- 

 ceived a cast of a stone celt and handle in one piece. (Ace. 15758.) 



CHARACTER OF ROUTINE WORK. 



The arrangement and classification of the collections, and the prepa- 

 ration of the exhibition and study series, have received very careful and 

 constant attention. As in former years, I have followed a dualistic 

 system in arranging the antiquities received in this department, by 

 adding them either to the general classified collection, or by making 

 special collections whenever the number of specimens from one locality 

 warranted such a proceeding. 



Much time was spent in assorting and preparing for exhibition a 

 number of collections (mostly obtained in the course of mound explora- 

 tions) which were received from the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Quite a number of objects of archaeological interest were loaned to 

 this department for examination, and many of them, as stated, repro- 

 duced in plaster- of-Paris. 



Duplicates were sent in exchange to W. Ohamplin Eobinson, Balti- 

 more, Maryland, (28 specimens), Bev. Luigi Sartori, Baltimore, Mary- 

 land, (2 specimens), and M. Louis Guesde, Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 

 W. I. (141 specimens). 



The following is a list of special collections which have been placed 

 on exhibition : 



From private individuals. — North Carolina (Caldwell County), J. M. 



