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a collection of weapons &c. from New Guinea, purchased from, A.P. Goodwin. 
An exchange series of weapons from Polynesia, contributed by. Charles Heape. 
During the year illustrative series of ethnological objects have been exhibited at Cincinnati, Louisville, and New Orleans, care being taken in each case to impress some ethnological truth, such as distribution of types, the effect of environment, the treatment of the same art by different tribes, or the progress of an art from its infancy to its highest manifestation.