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ments and pottery show nearly the same degree of skill in workmanship as those from the shell-heaps on the northern Atlantic coast. The animal bones have been identified as belonging to the deer (Cervus virginianus), and of some carnivore, probably bear (Ursus americanus).

[[underline]]C.L.Hoerrick, Minneapolis, Minnesota.[[/underline]]-Collection of hammer-stones, chips and flakes of flint, chipped celts, arrow and spear-heads, shells and fragments of pottery, from a shell-heap on the Tennessee River, near Decatur, Alabama.

[[underline]]C.S.Grigsby, Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee[[/underline]]- The collections sent at different times during the past year comprise: Rude and leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, cutting tools, perforators, arrow and spear-heads, hammer-stones, pitted stones, chipped and polished celts, grooved axes, discoidal stones, gaming discs(?), 1 pierced ceremonial weapon, and pierced tablets, all from the vicinity of Fayetteville. Representative specimens of each class of objects have been placed on exhibition. Worthy of especial mention are a leaf-shaped implement, partially "glazed", a fragment of a large flint implements, showing patina of considerable depth, and some perforators, spear-heads, and one discoidal stone of very fine workmanship.