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Forty-second Annual Report on the 



By Collection. 



J. Van Deloo: 



Lot of magnetic iron ore from Barton Hill Mine, Mineville, N. Y. 



By Purchase. 

 Tiffany & Co., New York city: 

 One Green Garnet (cut), Siberia. 

 One Amethyst (cut), South Carolina. 

 One Jadeite (cut), China. 



Geo. F. Kunz, Hoboken, N. J. : 

 Meteroic iron from Toluca Valley, Mexico, as follows: 



One specimen, weight eighteen pounds. 



One specimen, weight three pounds. 



One specimen, weight fifteen pounds. 



One specimen cut and showing Widmanstatten figures. 

 A collection of minerals found occurring naturally on New York 



island, 193 specimens. 

 A collection of minerals from Westchester county, 186 specimens. 

 Four large groups of fluorites (green) from St. Lawrence county. 



ETHNOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



PONATION. 



A. G. Richmond, Canajoharie, N. Y.: 

 Stone mortar 9" x 7" x 2," Mohawk Valley, N. Y. 

 Six pitted stones, Mohawk Valley, N. Y. 

 Seven stone fishing-net sinkers, Mohawk Valley, N. Y. 

 Collection of mammalian vertebrae and bones, and shells of Anodonta, 

 found on the site of an Indian village, Mohawk Flats, N. Y. 



I. P. Bishop, Chatham, N. Y. : 

 Three hundred and nine arrow-points from Silver Lake, near Perry, 

 N. Y. Collected by the donor from a single cache. 



C. H. Smith, Glenville, N. Y.: 

 One arrow-point ploughed up at Glenville, Schenectady county, N. Y., 

 by the donor. 



Sidney Hay, Saratoga, N. Y. : 

 The following specimens collected by the donor in the neighborhood 

 of Saratoga Lake, N. Y., viz. : 



Two stone pestles. 



Two stone hatchets. 



One stone gouge. 



