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THE MUSEUM. 
papers, mostly of noted men of Revolutionary times 
(numbering probably 1000 pieces), was sacrificed at 
$ 34 -°o. 
The coins and Indian relics brought much less. 
A collection of mound builders’ vessels, pipes, axes, 
pestles, ceremonial stones and gouges was sold for 
$10.50. A South Sea Island paddle, elaborately 
carved, went for $7.50. A case of medals and 
tokens, numbering about 350 pieces, sold for $11.00, 
and a similar lot for $15.00. A silver “ Hard Times ” 
token of 1837, of which only three or four are 
known in collections, sold for $15.00. Copper cents 
of 1793 and 1799, with many other rare copper 
and silver coins and many pieces of paper currency, 
were included in large lots, which sold for nominal 
sums. 
On April 9th, at a coin sale in Philadelphia, a 
$2.50 gold piece of 1796 brought $55.50; a $50.00 
California gold piece, $59.00; a 1794 U. S. dollar, 
$22.00; another of 1839, $25.00; a half dol. of 
1797, $53.00, and a dime of 1805, $10.25. 
MAGAZINES AND EXCHANGES. 
The first number of The American Journal of 
Archceology , a ‘quarterly publication, has appeared. 
It is devoted almost exclusively to classical archae¬ 
ology, and contains three heliotype plates represent¬ 
ing vases from Alexandria, a side portal of Notre 
Dame, Paris, and statues from the North porch of 
Chartres Cathedral. The initial number impresses 
one as being rather too heavy for the majority of 
American students, the departments of Prehistoric 
and American Archaeology not having, as yet, been 
fully organized. 
The Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (Lon¬ 
don), for April, contains a beautifully illuminated 
double-page plate, a fac-simile of the “ Confirmation 
of Arms and Grant of Crest by William Henry 
Clarenceux, to Gayus Dyxon, of Tonbridge, 1565,” 
from the original in the possession of the Rev. Wm. 
M. Oliver, m.a. 
One of the most enterprising philatelic papers is 
the Illustrirtes Briefmarken Journal (Illustrated 
Stamp Journal). The January number is a neatly 
printed pamphlet of 24 pages, containing upwards of 
50 colored fac-similes of foreign stamps and a 
genuine unused 6 schilling Heligoland. While the 
colored engravings are excellent as illustrations, and 
convey a good idea of the originals, they are not so 
finely executed as to be likely to deceive. Pub¬ 
lished by Gebriider Senf, Leipzig. 
Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, No. 
509, Prehistoric Fishing in Europe and North 
America, by Charles Rau, is a quarto of 335 pages, 
containing 405 illustrations. It is a most valuable 
and exhaustive treatise, which will be reviewed in 
our next number. 
Elephant Pipes in the Museum of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Davenport, Iowa , is a pamphlet 
of 40 pages, by Charles E. Putnam, just pub¬ 
lished. 
The Journal of Mycology is a new monthly de¬ 
voted to the study of Fungi. The February num¬ 
ber contains a valuable article on the Enumeration 
of the North American Cercosporce, by the well- 
known students of Cryptogamic Botany, J. B. 
Ellis and Bgnj. M. Everhart. The Journal is pub¬ 
lished by Prof. W. A. Kellerman, at Manhattan, 
Kans. 
The International Collectors ’ Guide, published by 
W. G. Whilden, Jr., Pelzer, South Carolina, is a 
neat little pamphlet containing much interesting in¬ 
formation about the stamps of the Southern Con¬ 
federacy, historical facts relating to early posts, etc., 
and a “ postage stamp photograph ” of Mr. L. W. 
Durbin, the Philadelphia stamp dealer. 
St. George’s Hall, Reisterstown, Md., 
Chapter 598, 
March 24th, 1885. 
To the Editor of The Museum: 
Dear Sir :—Our Chapter, for the past four 
months, has been studying mineralogy. We have 
explored this country around for miles, and have 
collected a fair cabinet of Baltimore county minerals. 
There are two mines of iron ore not far from here 
