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While the accessions are less numerous than in the preceeding year they are no less important. 

The collection of primitive vehicles, in the construction of which no iron or other metal has been used, was materially strengthened by the deposit of a Mexican cart, by Messrs Schuttler & Holtz, (through Mr. Mart in Conrad), Chicago, Ills. The specimen was obtained from Passo del Norte, where it had long been in use.

The method of constructing the body of the vehicle of saplings, held in place by a network of raw-hide strips, is of the greatest interests to the archaeologist, as well as, to the study of the history of transportation; while the rough wheels, without spokes or tires - hewn from the solid log - show the crude methods of the ancient wheel-wright and the beginnings of the wheel vehicle.