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County, Virginia (14 specs).

[[underline]] From S. T. Walker. [[/underline]]  Southern shore of Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida: celts, discoidal stones, polishing and grinding stones, etc., human bones from grave, fragments of "cement slab" with incised lines covering these bones, fragments of clay vessels, particularly handles in the shape of heads of ducks, owls, etc., shell implements, and shells from shell-heaps (99 specs).

[[underline]] From Capt. J. M. Dow. [[/underline]]  Graves, head of Gulf of Nicoya: large stone celt, jasper celt, jadeite (?) celt, 3 strings of argillite beads, and perforated argillite figure (7 specs).

[[underline]] From O. H. P. Kinney, through J. B. Wiggins. [[/underline]] Chlorite pipe from Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

[[underline]] From W. M. Clark. [[/underline]]  Bird-shaped chlorite pipe from Tennessee.  Purchased.

[[underline]]  From John A. Ruth. [[/underline]]  Objects from Bucks County, Pennsylvania: rude implement (adze-shaped), rude celts, leaf-shaped implements, unfinished implements, and hammer-stone (7 specs).

[[underline]] From L. Belding. [[/underline]]  Californian specimens: flint arrow-head from San Joaquin County, small flint arrow-head from Calaveras County, obsidian arrow-head and obsidian implement with serrated edges from burial-ground at Stockton (4 specs).

Smithsonian Institution, January 1, 1882.

C. Rau

Professor S. F. Baird.

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