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lection of rude implements, cutting tools, perforators, scrapers, arrow-heads, sinkers, bone implements, fragments of pottery, etc., from Menemsha Pond, and Roaring Brook, Martha's Vineyard, and from Nonamesset Island, and Wood's Holl, Massachusetts. This collection, as exhibited, represents the different types of specimens mentioned, and is of special interest as showing the stages in the manufacture of stone implements in those localities. [[underline]]J.E.Gere, Riceville, Washington County, Wisconsin.[/underline]]- Collection from the vicinity of Riceville: Rude and leaf-shaped implements, cutting tools, scrapers, arrow and spear-heads, grooved axes, and 1 copper spear-head or knife. In this collection are some fine types of arrow and spear-heads, and the grooved axes exhibit unusual forms. The copper spear-head is a valuable addition to the series of objects of that metal thus far acquired. [[underline]]August Shmedtie, Washington, D.c.-[[/underline]]1 stone sinker (notched), from a cave near Santo Domingo, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico [[underline]]Dr. D.S. Kellogg, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York[[/underline]]-Collections of rude scrapers, leaf-shaped implements, arrow-heads, fragments of pottery, and of bones of birds and quadrupeds, from old refuse-heaps at Plattsburgh. The imple-