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collection from mounds near Chickasaw, Colbert County, Alabama, consisting of flakes, rude implements, chipped celts, cutting tools, hammer - stone, arrow and spear-heads, fragments of pottery, 54 specs. for exhibition, 124 specs. for exchange._ Collection from shell-heap near Waterloo, Lauderdale County, Alabama, consisting of shells, flint flakes, rude flint implements, fragments of spear-heads, of pottery, and of human bones; 91 specs. for exhibition. _ Collection from shell - heap at Cheatam's Ferry, Lauderdale County, Alabama, consisting of shells, flint flakes, arrow and spear-heads, 1 clay vessel, fragments of pottery, and of human skull and bones; 55 specs. for exhibition._ Collection of flint implements (surface - finds) from Waterloo, Lauderdale County, consisting of flakes, rude implements, cutting tools, concave scrapers, and arrow and spear-heads; 31 specs. for exhibition._ Collection of relics from near Florence, Lauderdale County, consisting of cutting tools, arrow and spear-heads, and fragments of pottery; 12 specs. for exhibition, 59 specs. for exchange, 1 box of fragments for storage._ The collections both from mounds and shell-heaps have been placed on exhibition in Case 80.

I have instructed the attendant in the hall, H. A. Parker, in mounting specimens, and he has commenced mounting the 600 small arrow-heads from Oregon. Nearly half the work is already done. 

I must urge the duplication of the catalogues. I have constantly to refer to them, but they are beyond my reach. I cannot go twelve times every day to the new museum for