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^[[37]] [[underlined]]James Harrington, Tampico, Mexico.---[[/underlined]] 2 stone sculptures in human shape.  Very good specimens.

[[underlined]]A.R.Beck, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.---[[/underlined]]1 carved stone pipe (obscene), Said to have been brought from South America, but probably of Northwest Coast origin.

[[underlined]]J.A.D.Stephenson, Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.---[[/underlined]] 1 scraper and 96 arrow-heads from a deposit in Alexander County, North Carolina. I take from Mr Stephenson's letter the following interesting facts: "This deposit was found recently by some quarrymen near the Catawba River in the southeast corner of Alexander County, buried in the soil against the side of a large rock.  I know of no locality nearer than 70 miles, from which the material composing them could have been obtained.  There are 97 pieces, including the one from which the others seem to have been chipped.^[["]]

[[underlined]]E.Stanley Gary, Baltimore, [[strikethrough]]Maryland[[/strikethrough]].---[[/underlined]] 1 ceremonial weapon, from Elk Ridge, Howard County, Maryland.

[[underlined]]J.B.Aldrich, Memphis, Tenn[[strikethrough]]esee[[/strikethrough]].---[[/underlined]] 1 New Zealand war-club (patoo-patoo), said to have been found in a mound in Bent County, Colorado.  Original loaned, and cast made in the National Museum.  This specimen is identical in material and shape with a New Zealand war-club in the collection of the National Museum, and belongs to the class of so-called "intrusive relics," sometimes found in this country.

[[underlined]]Trocadero Museum, Paris, France.---[[/underlined]]Collection of large casts taken by M.Désiré Charnay from sculptures in Mexico and Central America. The importance of this collection hardly can be overrated.