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the Colonial Bank, lately stationed in St. Vincent, where 
the collection was formed. They are a selection from 
about thirty examples which Mr. ATKINSON retained as 
illustrating all the forms he had been able to procure 
in the island. The same collector has been good enough 
to promise to send also some thirty examples which he had 
rejected from his collection, as being duplicates of the sim- 
pler and more common forms among those which he had 
retained. Of this second set I hope to figure examples 
in a future number of this journal. It will then I think be 
found that Mr. ATKINSON'S collection affords a most in- 
structive illustration of the cause — to which, in the paper 
to which allusion has already been made, I had called the 
attention of the members of the Anthropological Institute 
before I had even seen, or indeed knew of. the existence 
of, the collection now under consideration— of the 
fact that by far the larger proportion of well-known 
Carib implements are of a more elaborate and finished 
nature than those derived from almost any other 
people. The fact is, I think, that while the Caribs 
certainly made a few examples of unusual elabora- 
tion, they also made many more, for common and every- 
day purposes, of more ordinary character, but that 
most collectors have not unnaturally retained only the 
more elaborate forms, while they have rejected all but 
perhaps one of the really numerous examples of each of 
the simpler implements. The result has been the inad- 
vertent creation of a false impression that, as a whole, 
the stone-implements of the West Indies [all of which, 
by the way, are too often spoken of as Carib) are of an 
unusually elaborate kind ; while the fact really is that 
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