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[[underlined]] Pennsylvania.[[/underlined]] _Collection from Northumberland County: Flakes, rude and leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, perforators, cutting tools, arrow-heads, rude celts,unfinished grooved axe,rude grooved axes,pestles, notched sinkers,fragments of ceremonial weapons,and 1 carved stone pipe.The pestles and grooved axes are good examples of aboriginal methods in working stone: being natural formations somewhat approaching in shape the implement desired, modified by flaking and pecking.

[[underlined]]Statement of Character of Routine Work[[/underlined]]

The arranging, classifying, and preparing for exhibition the collections received has been continued in accordance with the plan indicated in my annual report for 1882.The general collection of typical objects in the Museum is now so large that more space can be given to special collections, and when enough specimens have been received from one locality to fill one or more trays, they are separately exhibited. The following is a list of special collections which have been placed on exhibition during the year

Collection from Wisconsin, sent by J. E. Gere
" "[[ditto for Collection from]] New York, "[[ditto for sent by]] Ira Van Ness
" "[[ditto for Collection from]] Alabama, "[[ditto for sent by]] C. L. Herrick